Yongho Sohn is a Pegasus Professor and a Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering. Dr. Sohn joined UCF in January 2001 as an assistant professor. He is an elected fellow of ASM International, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2003-08), Outstanding Materials Engineer Award from Purdue University (2016), UCF Research Incentive Awards (2006, 2012, 2017, and 2024), and UCF Teaching Incentive Awards (2007 and 2013). In 2024 he received UCF’s Research Excellence Award as the university awardee. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, and a member of the editorial board for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. Details on his research and teaching/mentoring activities can be found at http://mse.ucf.edu/sohn.

Education:

• Ph.D., School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Additive manufacturing by powder bed fusion
• Powder synthesis by gas atomization
• High temperature materials, thermal barrier and oxidation/corrosion resistant coatings
• Multicomponent multiphase diffusion kinetics and irreversible thermodynamics
• Multiscale materials characterization

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