Sustainable Materials Utilization and Energy Efficiency
The Packard Research Group conducts materials science research to address societally relevant topics of sustainable materials utilization and energy efficiency.
We employ advanced manufacturing techniques and seek to enhance material performance in extreme environments.
The materials and problems we work on are relevant to aerospace and electronics, including applications in gas turbines, high temperature applications, satellites, high efficiency solar cells, optics, and flexible electronics.
See the latest group news
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October 2024
– Packard appointed to chair of the American Ceramic Society’s Member Services Committee.
– Packard to receive the 2025 Acta Materialia Silver Award at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. Press release: Awards – Scripta Materialia | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
August 2024
– Packard’s first day as Professor at USC and transitional appointment as Research Professor at the Colorado School of Mines.
March 2024
– Henry Afful to present a talk and a poster at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting
January 2024
– Packard to present invited talk based on Jai Sharma’s thesis work on pressure induced phase transformations in rare earth orthophosphates at the 49th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2025) in Daytona Beach
Dr. Packard has recently relocated to the University of Southern California from the Colorado School of Mines. She is now accepting new group members at USC.
If you have a passion for one or more of the fundamentals listed below, please consider applying for an open position
– Mechanical behavior of materials
– Mechanics of materials
– Deformation mechanisms and fracture
– Ceramics
– Semiconductors
– Crystallography
– Mathematics/Linear algebra