Long-Qing Chen, Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
He was elected "for making the phase-field method the most powerful tool for predicting the mesoscopic microstructure and properties of engineering materials."
Chen, who joined the Penn State faculty in 1992, earned his bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, China; his master's degree from Stony Brook University; and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in materials science and engineering. He is a fellow of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and ASM International. He was elected as a foreign member of the Academia Europaea. He received MRS Materials Theory Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Humboldt Research Award, TMS John Bardeen Award, TMS Hume-Rothery Award, ACerS Ross Coffin Purdy Award, TMS Cyril Stanley Smith Award, and IEEE-UFFC Distinguished Lecturer Award. Chen is also a professor of engineering science and mechanics and professor of mathematics.