Collaborate with us!
Here's the dirty secret about academia: everyone knows of researchers whom they would love to work with but are too scared to approach about it, but everyone also loves it when strangers who admire their work want to work with them. I can't promise that we'll have the bandwidth or compatible interests to work with everyone who asks, but I can reasonably promise to give it a fair listen.
What we bring:
Who we tend to work with:
If you're interested: please contact [email protected] to discuss your ideas and schedule a Zoom call.
What we bring:
- World-class expertise in extreme temperature Digital Image Correlation
- Novel, high-throughput techniques which can characterize damage mechanisms (e.g. creep, ductility, and fatigue) orders of magnitude faster by obtaining many tests worth of data from fewer specimens
- USU's Space Dynamics Lab (SDL), which is 1 of only 14 DOD University-Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) in the country
- USU is also the nearest PhD-granting institution in any of our Engineering PhD programs to Idaho National Lab, with whom we have a proud history of collaboration and alumni job placement
- A broad network of collaborators including dozens of universities, national labs, and industry partners.
- A large and diverse pool of talented students at all levels (Freshmen through PhD), a pluruality of whom come from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM
- A PI who was rated the best campus-wide undergraduate research mentor of the year, and the following year our university was rated the best undergraduate research program in the country
- One of the cheapest tuition rates in the country for a university of our stature, plus a below-average overhead rate and a relatively low cost of living compared to major cities (meaning we can perform more work on a smaller budget)
Who we tend to work with:
- Experimentalists with novel capabilities that complement ours (especially involving smaller length scales or faster time scales)
- Computationalists who use our experiments for validation measurements
- Material Scientists who provide access to novel materials that we can't buy commercially (USU does not have a material science department, so we often rely on outside collaborators to provide interesting materials)
- Industry and National Labs, who generally have much higher overhead rates so we can provide benchmark data to them for relatively cheap
If you're interested: please contact [email protected] to discuss your ideas and schedule a Zoom call.