Current

Professor Michael E. Kassner

Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Interim Chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

2009-Present: Choong Hoon Cho Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

2003-2009: Professor and Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science

Doctoral Degree, Materials Engineering, Stanford University

Master’s Degree, Materials Engineering, Stanford University

Bachelor’s Degree, Northwestern University

Research Interests: 
Metal plasticity theory, creep, fracture, phase diagrams, fatigue, and semi-solid forming.

Prof.Kassner Resume 

kassner@usc.edu

Graduate Students

Roya Ermagan 

In Progress Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Southern California
2016 M.S., Materials Science, University of Southern California
2013 B.Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Iran University of Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Long range internal stresses, TEM analysis of dislocation formation, dislocation micro-structures, and stress behavior in metals

ermagan@usc.edu

KwangTae Son

In Progress Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Southern California
2016 M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University
2014 B.Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University

Research Interests: Additive manufacturing, Superalloys, High temperature creep, Phase analysis

kwangtas@usc.edu

Visiting Scientists

Michele Atzeni

In Progress M.S., Food Equipment Engineering, University of Parma
2016 B.Sc., Management Engineering, University of Parma

ma_326@usc.edu