Rishi Raj, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Life Member by The American Ceramic Society.
Raj has studied oxides and non-oxides to understand a wide range of behavior phenomena, including high-temperature creep, superplasticity, interfaces and amorphous phases and their role in sintering and creep, sintering mechanisms, and polymer-derived amorphous materials. Most recently, he has turned his attention to understanding electric field effects on sintering and defect chemistry, also called 鈥渇lash sintering.鈥�
The Distinguished Life Member award鈥攖he highest honor accorded to members of the scientific and technical organization鈥攔ecognizes an individual鈥檚 eminent contribution to the ceramic and glass profession.