Yongho Sohn

Materials science and engineering Professor Yongho Sohn has been elected president of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. He succeeds former KSEA president Young Kee-Kim, to become the 52nd leader of the organization. Sohn currently serves as the president-elect but will assume the official title of president in July 2023. In this role, he will…

The Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion has given the 2021 Editor’s Choice Award to MSE alumnus Abhishek Mehta and Professor Yongho Sohn for their paper, “Measurement of Interdiffusion and Tracer Diffusion Coefficients in FCC Co-Cr-Fe-Ni Multi-Principal Element Alloy.” The paper was published in February 2021 and co-authors include Irina Belova and Graeme Murch of…

Doctoral candidate Abhishek Mehta is awarded the dean’s dissertation completion fellowship, which is worth $10,000 plus the cost of tuition. Mehta is a research assistant in Professor Yongho Sohn’s Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing. His dissertation work focuses on exploring the fundamental core effects in novel metallic alloys named high entropy alloys. Has…

Professor Yongho Sohn and Professor Kevin R. Coffey received a $700,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a research project titled “Mechanisms of Retention and Transport of Fission Products in Virgin and Irradiated Nuclear Graphite.” Through this project, Sohn and Coffey will examine how the fission products are retained and transported through…

The U.S. Army and the U.S. Office of Naval Research have turned to the University of Central Florida to help push the limits of additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3-D printing with metallic alloys. Additive manufacturing looks to use different metallic alloys to print a variety of finished components used in everything from children’s toys…