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Satya Shivkumar

Professor

Office: Washburn Shops, 227
Phone: +1-508-831-5048
Fax: +1-508-831-5178
shivkuma@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Personal Homepage

Educational Background

• B.S., Regional Engineering College, 1978
• M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, 1980
• M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology, 1987
• Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 1987

Research & Teaching Interests

Biomedical materials, polymer properties and processing, materials science and engineering

IQP Advising Interests

Impact of new technologies, hospital based projects, computers & education, introducing new teaching materials 

Recent Publications

• Johnson and S. Shivkumar, "Structure and Mechanical Properties of Filamentous green Algae", Materials Science and Engineering B, (1995) in press.

• Brosnan and S. Shivkumar, "Elevated Temperature Tensile Properties and Fracture Behavior of A356 Castings", AFS Transactions, 103 (1995), in press.

• Mehta, S. Biederman and S. Shivkumar, "Thermal Degradation of Foamed Polystyrene" , J of Materials Science, 30 (1995) 2944-2949.

• Shivkumar, X. Yao and M. Makhlouf "Polymer-Melt Interactions during Casting Formation in the lost foam Process", Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, 33(1) (1995) 39-46.

• Wang and S. Shivkumar, "Sr Modification of Al Alloy Castings in the EPC Process", J of Materials Science, 30 (1995) 1584-1594.

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Honors & Awards

• Scientific Merit Award, 1993, American FoundrymenÕs Society
• Numerous awards for projects

Professional Societies/Memberships

• Society for Biomaterials
• Materials Research Society (MRS)
• Society for Plastics Engineers (SPE)
• Society for Plastics Industry (SPI)
• American Foundrymen's Society (AFS)
• American Society for Metals (ASM)
• American Chemical Society
• The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society (TMS)