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Erik Sease

eseas001@ucr.edu
Resume

FAVORITE SUPERHERO: Caped Baldy
DEGREE TYPE: PhD
PROGRAM: Materials Science and Engineering
YEAR IN PROGRAM: 3rd year
PROGRAM START DATE: September 2017

RESEARCH FOCUS:

Bottom-up nanostructuring of soft face centered cubic metals by severe plastic deformation and spark plasma sintering

DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH:

Current project involves production of high strength nanostructured dilute silver alloys for high strain rate/structural/electronics applications. Bottom-up and top down approaches are used to produce high strength material through mechanical alloying, spark plasma sintering and high pressure torsion.

CURRENT GROUPS:

Mathaudhu Research Group

OTHER GROUPS/ORGS/CLUBS:

Materials Advantage

AWARDS:

  • GAANN Fellow 2019-2020
  • MPIF/PowderMet Student Presentation Grant 2019

PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES ATTENDED:

(T for talk, P for Poster, A for Attendee)

  • TMS 2020 “Bulk High-Strength Ultrafine-Grained Silver Alloys via Powder Metallurgical Approaches” (P)
  • PowderMet/AMPM/MPIF 2019 “Bottom-Up Approaches for Fabrication of Ultrafine Grained High-Strength Silver Alloys” (P/T)
  • TMS 2018 (A)

PAPERS:

(P for published, I for in review, D for draft)

Bottom-Up Approaches for Fabrication of Ultrafine Grained High-Strength Silver Alloys (D)

REASONS FOR GRAD SCHOOL:

An undergraduate degree lets you use the existing database of knowledge to increase your own knowledge, but a graduate degree allows you to help add to that database and increase what we as a collective know, and leaves a lasting impression.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE:

B.S., Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2015

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH:

  • Pilot plant synthesis of potassium tetrachloride
  • Aluminum microlattices for impact absorbent sportswear produced by 3D printing and spincasting

INTERNSHIPS:

  • Hazen Research Inc., 2014

WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • Graduate Student Researcher, UC Riverside (2017-Current)
  • Traditional Log Cabin Construction Contracting (2015-2016)
  • Hazen Research Inc (2014)
  • Innovation Exploration Resources LLC (2012-2013)

REASONS FOR ENGINEERING:

The process of taking things apart to see how they work, putting them back together to make them work more efficiently, and then using the knowledge gained from the process and applying it to create something new is appealing to me at a very fundamental level.

CAREER ASPIRATIONS:

R&D, international work, research, national labs