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Eugene Olevsky Ph.D Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Powder
Technology Laboratory
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Powder Technology Laboratory (PTL) is located at San Diego State University. The PTL conducts projects on various research topics including:

  • Powder Metallurgy
  • Ceramic Processing
  • Functionally Graded Materials
  • Electronic Packaging
  • Thick and Thin Film Technologies
  • LTCC
  • Electrochemical Processing
  • Combustion Synthesis
  • Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations of Sintering Processes
We are proud to be sponsored by Sandia National Laboratory, SPAWAR, Sun Microsystems, National Science Foundation, Solar Turbines and State of California.

 

PTL Research Group

Dr. Eugene Olevsky
Director of Powder
Technology Laboratory

Affiliated Faculty - Research Visitors

Dr. R.M. German
Brush Chair in Materials
The Pennsylvania State University
Director of the Center for Innovative Sintered Products
SDSU Adjunct Professor

 Dr. Mikhail Shtern
Head of the Department of Micromechanics and Rheology of Composites and Porous Bodies
Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences
Kiev, Ukraine		 Dr. Andrey Maximenko Research Fellow
On leave from Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences
Kiev, Ukraine
 
Dr. Alexander Maidaniuk Research Fellow from Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences
Kiev, Ukraine

Hector Sanchez Sthepa Universidad del Valle, Escuela de Ingeniera de Materiales

Cali, Colombia

 

PhD Students

Gordon Brown
PhD Student in
Computational Science

Evan Khaleghi
PhD Student in
Applied Mechanics and Materials Program

Yen Shan Lin
PhD Student inApplied Mechanics and Material Program

 

Master Students

Dmitriy Glozman
Master Student in Mechanical Engineering
James Issa
Master Student in Mechanical Engineering
Rahul Tyagi
Master Student in Mechanical Engineering		  
 
Eric Bruce
Master Student in Mechanical Engineering
William Bradbury Master Student in Mechanical Engineering

 

Undergraduate Students

   

 

Alumni

 
Dr. JunKun Ma
Visiting Assistant Professor at
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Xuan Wang
PhD in Applied Mechanics and Material Program
Dr. Tiezheng Li
PhD in Applied Mechanics and Material Program
 
Himaja Jani
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
(with co-advising of
Dr. Venkataraman)
Shinde Satayjit
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Brian Schmaltz
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
 
Thomas Rohaut
Ecole d'Ingenieurs en Genie des Systemes industriels
La Rochelle, France 		Boris Kushnarev

Master of Science in Computational Science

  

 

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News

6.20.08

Congratulations to student Will Bradbury on finishing his Bachelor's degree and entering the Master's degree program at SDSU.

6.12.08

Prof. Olevsky participated in the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy in Washington, D, from June 8-12.

5.29.08

Prof. Olevsky participated in the 10th International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science in Inuyama, Japan, from May 21-29.

5.12.08

Congratulations to Dr. Olevsky for his elevation to the rank of a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

2.5.08

The PTL Lab is visited by Drs. Maximenko and Kuzmov from the Frantsevich Institute of Materials Science in Kiev, Ukraine.

1.31.08

Dr. Olevsky participated in the 32nd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, in Daytona Beach, FL, from January 27 to 31.

1.11.08

Dr. Olevsky participated in the NSF CMMI Grantees Conference in Knoxville, TN from January 6 to 10.

12.11.07

Dr. Olevsky participated in the 13th International Materials Engineering Conference in Haifa, Israel, from December 8 to 10, 2007

12.5.07

November-December 2007: The PTL Lab is visited by Drs. Maximenko and Mikhailov from the Frantsevich Institute for Materials Science, Kiev, Ukraine

11.27.07

Dr. Olevsky presented a talk on “Novel manufacturing principles for fabrication of advanced composite materials” at the American Chemical Society Local Chapter meeting in Rancho Bernardo, CA

11.14.07

Dr. Olevsky participated in the 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Advanced Ceramic in Glass Materials in Shanghai, China, from November 10th to 14th.

11.13.2007

Evan Khaleghi attended IMAPS 2007 in San Jose, CA, on November 13th and 14th. His trip was sponsored by the local San Diego Chapter of IMAPS.

9.21.07

Dr. Olevsky participated in the MS&T '07 Conference in Detroit from September 16-20. He presented a talk on "Mechanics of Densification in Spark-Plasma Sintering".

5.15.2007

Dr. Olevsky participated in the 5th China Conference on High-Performance Ceramics, in Changsha, China, from May 10-15.

3.1.2007

PhD Student Evan Khaleghi was selected to participate in the International Research Experience in Sintered Materials (IRESM) program this summer in Madrid, Spain.

2.2007

Dr. Olevsky has been appointed Director of the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in the Engineering Sciences.

1.25.2007

Dr.Olevsky presented on Spark Plasma Sintering at the meeting of the local chapter of the American Society of Metals.

1.12.2007

The PTL Lab is visited by Dr. A. Maximenko and Dr. A. Maidaniuk from the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science in Kiev, Ukraine. They will be visiting from January to February, 2007.

12.2.2006

Dr. Olevsky participated in the International Conference on Non-Isothermal Phenomena and Processes in Yereven, Armenia, from November 27th to December 1st.