The School of Materials Engineering is pleased to announce that Michael Titus will be joining the faculty in the School of Materials Engineering.  Michael will graduate in spring 2015  from the University of California Santa Barbara from the research group of Prof. Tresa Pollock, where he has been studying processing, structure, and high temperature properties of Co-based superalloys.  He utilizes single crystal casting methods (Bridgman) to create novel alloy systems that he tests and further characterizes using high performance electron microscopy. Michael is interested in linking solute interactions with crystalline defects to macroscopic deformation mechanisms, and he utilizes first-principles calculations and statistical mechanics to model these interactions.  Michael obtained his B.S. in Engineering Physics from the Ohio State University. He looks forward to developing a unique suite of tools here at Purdue for creating the next-generation of high performance, high temperature metallic alloy systems.