Biography
Michael E. McHenry is Professor of Materials Science and Eng.
(MSE), with an appointment in Physics at Carnegie Mellon. He graduated
with a B.S. in Metallurgical Eng. and Materials Science from Case Western
Reserve in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he was employed as Process Engineer at
the U.S. Steel Lorain Works. In 1988 he earned a Ph.D in Materials
Science and Eng. from MIT. He was a Director's Funded Post-doctoral
Fellow at Los Alamos Lab from 1988 to 1989. He has expertise in the area
of nanocrystalline magnetic materials including soft magnetic
nanocomposites, faceted ferrite nanoparticles and materials for power
conversion, biomedical, energy and data storage applications. His research
involves rapid solidification processing, plasma and solution synthesis of
nanoparticles, magnetic field of processing materials, structural
characterization by x-rays and electron microscopy and magnetic properties
characterization as a function of field, temperature and frequency. He
directed a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on high
temperature magnetic materials for aircraft power applications and
currently leads an ARPA-E program in magnetic materials for power
electronics. He has served as proceeding Editor, Publication Chair and a
member of the Program Committee for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
(MMM) and Intermag Conferences. He has published over 250 papers and owns
two patents in the field. He has co-authored, with Marc DeGraef, the
textbook “Structure of Materials”, Cambridge University Press, 2007, with a second edition in 2012.
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