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Evander Ramos

eramo018@ucr.edu

(he/him/his)

FAVORITE SUPERHERO: Batman
DEGREE TYPE: PhD
PROGRAM: Mechanical Engineering
DEGREE STATUS: PhD Student

RESEARCH FOCUS:

Evolution of wear and mechanical properties of ultra-fine grained electrically conductive materials

DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH:

Currently I’m working on a variety of projects and getting a wide breadth of experience in the field of metallurgical engineering. One project works on developing stronger silver alloys processed by ball milling and spark plasma sintering. For another project, the conductivity and wear properties of materials processed with high-pressure torsion and high-pressure sliding are characterized to observe the evolution of these properties due to severe plastic deformation. Another project aims to incorporate nanoparticles produced in-house into metal melt systems to create metal-interstitial matrices.

CURRENT GROUPS:

Mathaudhu Research Group

OTHER GROUPS/ORGS/CLUBS:

Materials Advantage

AWARDS:

  • UC Riverside Mechanical Engineering Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2019)

PRESENTATION TITLES:

(T for talk, P for Poster)

  • “Electrical Conductivity and Wear Properties of Pure Copper Processed by High Pressure Sliding” TMS 2020 (T)
  • “Measurement of Strain Effects on Electrical Conductivity and Wear Properties in Materials Processed by High Pressure Torsion” TMS 2020 (P)
  • “Wear and Conductivity Effects in High-Pressure Synthesized Ultra-Fine Grained Metals” Physical Metallurgy GRC 2019 (P)
  • “Powder Consolidation + High Pressure Torsion to Enhance the Strength of Novel Silver Alloys” PowderMet 2019 (P/T)

CONFERENCES ATTENDED:  (A)/Presented at (T for talk, P for poster)

  • GRC Physical Metallurgy 2019 (P)
  • PowderMet 2019 (T/P)
  • TMS 2018 (A)

PAPERS:

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

Vo, N. Q., Bayansan, D., Sanaty-Zadeh, A., Ramos, E. & Dunand, D. C. Effect of Yb microadditions on creep resistance of a dilute Al-Er-Sc-Zr alloy. Materialia (2018). doi:10.1016/j.mtla.2018.08.030 (P)

REASONS FOR GRAD SCHOOL:

I discovered my true passion for metallurgy at my first job after undergrad, where I conducted all phases of alloy development research, from casting to processing to characterization. This wonderful experience helped me realize I needed to pursue this interest further in a university setting to expand my horizons and become an even better metallurgist.

UNDERGRAD SCHOOL:

Northwestern University

UNDERGRAD PROGRAM:

Materials Science and Engineering

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH:

Solid oxide fuel cell structure and processing

Senior research project: “Novel Structured Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Processed Using Reduced Temperature Co-sintering”

WORK EXPERIENCE:

NanoAl (2015-2017)

PREVIOUS GROUPS:

Barnett Group at Northwestern

REASONS FOR ENGINEERING:

Swords

CAREER ASPIRATIONS:

Anywhere I can work with metals and science