Dinesh Shetty

Biography

  Education Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University Honors & Awards Prof. Shetty's paper entitled, "Dielectric Breakdown of Polycrystalline Alumina: A Weakest-Link Failure Analysis" was selected by the editor as a featured article for the November, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. American Ceramic Society, 09/2013 Prof. Shetty was placed among the top instructors in the college based on student evaluations of courses MSE 5353 Physical Ceramics and MSE 6353 Advanced Topics in Physical Ceramics. The letters from the Dean's office were received in September 2013. College of Engineering, University of Utah, 09/04/2013 Prof. Shetty was honored as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 1994. American Ceramic Society, 08/1994 Prof. Shetty's paper entitled, "A Functionally-Graded Carbide in the Ta-C System (DOI: 10.1111/jace.14045) was selected bt the Editor as a feature article in the February, 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. The American Ceramic Society, 02/01/2016 Prof. Shetty's paper entitled, "On the Effect of Birefringence on Light Transmission in Polycrystalline Magnesium Fluoride" was selected by the Editor as a featured article for the March, 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. American Ceramic Society, 03/2015 Affiliations American Ceramic Society (ACERS), Fellow, 09/1976 - present Materials Research Society , Member, 08/1985 - present Electrochemical Society (ECS), Member, 08/1988 - present In the Media Prof. Shetty's publication entitled, "Dielectric Breakdown of Polycrystalline Alumina: A Weakest-Link Failure Analysis" and published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 96, Issue: 11, pp. 3430-3439 (2013) was highlighted in Ceramic Tech Today, an online blog published by the American Ceramic Society.

Research Interest

 Design, Process and Characterize Functional and Structural Ceramics. Two specific areas of interest are designing functionally-graded carbides in Group VB metal (Ta, Nb, V) -C binary systems and magnetic-field induced texture in non-cubic oxide ceramics for optical and electro-optical applications.