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Allen Jackson


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Allen G. Jackson, Ph.D.

Project Manager, Center for Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials

Adjunct Professor, Materials & Mechanical Engineering

Tel: (937)775-5098; Fax: (937) 775-5009

Email: allen.jackson@wright.edu


EDUCATION AND TRAINING

- Ph.D. (Materials Science & Engineering), University of Cincinnati, 1983
- M.S. (Physics), University of Dayton, 1968
- B.S. (Physics), Ohio State University, 1961

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006 - Present: Program Manager, Center for Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials, Wright State University.

1990 - Present: Adjunct Professor, Materials Science, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

2002 - 2005: Consultant (semi-retired)

1997- 2001: President, AvXm, Inc.

1995 - 2001: Sr. Scientist, Technical Management Concepts, Inc.

HONORS/ AWARDS

- Elected to Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honorary
- Elected President of Electron Microscopy Society of Ohio River Valley (EMSORV), 1991-92;
- Simulation images on Cover of JOM, 1998

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (From a list of over 70)

Five Relevant:

1) Book: A. G. Jackson, "Handbook of Crystallography for Electron Microscopists and Others", Springer-Verlag, 1991.

2) Jackson, A.G., LeClair, S.R., Ohmer, M.C., Ziarko, W., & Al-Kamhawi, H., Rough Sets Applied to Materials Data, Vol 44., No. 11, Acta metallurgica et Materialia, Elsevier Sciences Ltd., Great Britain, October 1996, pp. 4475-4484.

3) A. G. Jackson, S. J. P. Laube and J. Busbee, "Sensor Methods and Principles for Measurement of Physical Properties", JOM, September,1996.

4) Weiss, I., Srinivasan, R., Saqib, M., Stefansson, N., Jackson, A.G., & LeClair, S.R., Bulk Deformation of Ti-4.5Fe-6.8Mo-1.5Al wt% (Timetal¨ LCB) Alloy, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol 5, Issue 3, June 1996, pp. 335-352.

5) Jackson, A.G., Sensor Principles and Physical Properties, Spring Workshop on Sensors and Process Control in Aluminum Metalcasting, Metal Processing Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 29 May 1997.

Five Other Publications:

6) A. G. Jackson, "Identification of the L6o Phase in a g-Ti-AlNb Alloy", Scripta Met. et Mat., 27, March, 1993.

7) A. G. Jackson and D. S. Lee, "Characterization of the phases present in a Ti-45a/oAl-10a/oNb alloy," Scripta Met et Mater., 26, 1575-1579 (1992).

8) A.G. Jackson, Park, J.B., & LeClair, S.R., "Computer Recognition of Symmetry in Selected Area Diffraction Patterns", Proceedings of 49th Annual Meeting of Electron Microscopy Society of America, San Jose, CA, 8 August 1991.

9) A. G. Jackson,"Identification of the Laue Zone Number in HCP Systems in Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction," Ultramicroscopy, 32, 181-182 (1990).

10) A. G. Jackson, "Parity Tables in Convergent Beam Diffraction," Ultramicroscopy, 30, 349-354 (1989).

SAMPLE SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES (details available on request)

1. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN MULTIPLE AWARDS FROM:

- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Environmental Protection Agency

2. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY INVOLVEMNT

Affiliations:

- Microscopy Society of America,
- American Physical Society,
- Sigma Pi Sigma.

Activities:

- *Served on 2 PhD committees, 3 Masters committees
- *Assisted with GREEN program activities (2007,2008)
- *Past Member of ASM Structures Committee,
- *Organizer and Chairman:
Fundamentals of Crystallography Tutorial, Fall TMS meeting, Cincinnati, 1991;
- *Education Chairman of Dayton Chapter of ASM International, 1989-90;
- *Co-organizer (with W. Wade Adams) of SEMEDS project: SEM Educators project to provide electron microscopy exposure in a laboratory setting to secondary school teachers and students;
- *Co-organizer and topic editor of the electronic journal Innovations in Materials Process Design


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