As an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor Rajeev Gupta’s dedication to research is now being acknowledged on a national level through the Corrosion Division Rusty Award for Mid-Career Excellence from The Electrochemical Society.
This honor will be formally recognized during the 244th Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden in October of 2023. Division awards are dedicated to the recognition of work done with an emphasis on accomplishments in the researcher’s particular fields.
At the Corrosion and Advanced Materials Laboratory (CAML) in the Gupta Group, their focus is on advancing the fundamental understanding of the structure-processing-property-performance relationships in metallic materials, passivity, corrosion initiation and propagation mechanisms, and surface electrochemistry using state-of-the-art material characterization and electrochemical techniques. The fundamental research is intended to be applied in developing new metallic materials, corrosion characterization techniques, material processing technologies, and life prediction models. Professor Gupta’s interdisciplinary research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, and Industries.
“This is an outstanding honor,” says Donald Brenner, Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor and MSE Department Head. “Rajeev deserves this recognition without question for his commitment to advancing research in this field of materials science.”
Professor Gupta joined NC State MSE in the fall of 2020 and is currently a faculty advisor for senior design and ASM Material Advantage. He received his B.S. in materials and metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. in materials engineering from Monash University, Australia. Before joining the NC State University faculty, he was an assistant professor of chemical, biomolecular, and corrosion engineering at the University of Akron, Ohio. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Professor Gupta has authored over 140 publications, holds two patents, and has presented at many invited conferences.
Media contact: Niki Jennings, 919-926-8094 or niki_jennings@ncsu.edu.
This post was originally published in Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
- Categories:
