Yongho Sohn, Ph.D., Fellow ASM
UCF Pegasus Professor and Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Central Florida
Dr. Yongho Sohn is a Pegasus Professor and Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Central Florida. He received his B.S. with honors and M.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, respectively. He graduated in 1999 with Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), and spent two years as a post-doctoral research scholar at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT). He joined University of Central Florida in 2001 as an assistant professor. His research and teaching interests includes metallic alloy powder processing and additive manufacturing, microstructural analysis and control, multicomponent intrinsic and interdiffusion in multiphase alloys, protective metallic/ceramic coatings for high temperature applications, light-weight metallic alloys and metal-matrix composites, and materials characterization. He has published 10 book chapters and over 210 journal papers. He gave over 600 presentations including 140 invited lectures at conferences around the globe. He is a Fellow of ASM International (FASM), recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2003), Outstanding Materials Engineer Award from Purdue University (2016), Engineer of the Year Award from Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA, 2020), UCF’s Scroll and Quill Society (2019), UCF’s 2017, 2012 and 2006 research incentive awards, UCF’s 2007 and 2013 teaching incentive award. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Diffusion Foundation (TransTech), Associate Editor for Journal of Phase Equilibria (Springer) and Diffusion, and a member of Editorial Board for Metals (MDPI) and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (Springer).
