University of Utah Department of Metallurgical Engineering

05/17/2019

Congratulations to Dr. Miller for being recognized last night at the Utah Chinese Golden Spike Celebration! Dr. Miller was awarded the Outstanding US-China Friendship Professional Award.

03/18/2019

At last week's Bladesmithing competition at the Annual TMS Meeting in San Antonio, our Materials Advantage student chapter-based team earned a special citation for Resourcefulness with its beautiful Damascus steel sword pictured here. Great work by metallurgical engineering students Alexander Wikstrom, Hawken Knight, Jano Farah, Olivia Pratt, Andrew Strianese, Kai Barrera, and Symantik Roy!

01/08/2019

Prof. Jan Miller received another fantastic honor this week, when he was honored by the Chinese National Office for Science and Technology Awards. He is the winner of the 2018 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. Below are photos from the ceremony in Beijing, where he was given the award by Chines President Xi Jinping.

11/26/2018

“With its focus on basic science and engineering, the College of Mines and Earth Sciences is uniquely situated to address … complex problems of the

11/17/2018

The metallurgical engineering department was well represented at today’s Engineering Day by juniors Olivia Dale and Jano Farah.

10/29/2018

Metallurgical engineering touches many other fields of engineering. A great example of the impact of our associations with nuclear and chemical engineering was revealed today when Jaron Wallace (senior) was selected as the winner of the 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Nuclear Engineering Division student paper contest. Jaron will be receiving a prize of $500 from the division.

10/09/2018

Prof. Simpson is leading one of the 13 projects funded this year by Idaho National Laboratory to develop experiments for the planned Versatile Test Reactor. Utah's award is tied for the highest funding and features a collaboration with Prof. Phongikaroon from Virginia Commonwealth University and Prof. Sun from University of Michigan--both from leading nuclear engineering programs.

Idaho National Laboratory awards $3.9 Million in support of proposed fast spectrum test reactor

09/25/2018

The winner of the 2018 International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC) Lifetime Achievement Award is Jan D. Miller, Ivor D. Thomas Distinguished Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Utah. At the University of Utah, Professor Miller has devoted over 40 years to undergraduate and graduation education. His research covers mainly the areas of mineral processing and hydrometallurgy, specializing in particle characterization, aqueous solution chemistry, and colloid and surface chemistry. He is a member of SME, TMS, and ACS. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993. In recent years he has become a world leader in the field of x-ray tomography in minerals processing.

09/20/2018

Congratulations to Prof. Miller who was recently announced as a recipient of a 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Mineral Processing Council!

09/11/2018

Professor Ravi Chandran, Metallurgical Engineering, has recently been awarded a $440K grant, for three years, from the Department of Energy, Office of Science for the study of phase transitions in Li-ion battery electrodes. This follows a previous grant on the same subject and provides opportunities for two graduate students to continue the in situ experiments in Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ride National
Laboratory, TN.

09/06/2018

Time for a new chair and a new message!

It is a great honor for me to step into the role of Chair of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering this year.  It was only 5 years ago that I first came to University of Utah and settled into my office in the Browning Bldg.  As I recall, it was actually several weeks before I even had an off...