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Capabilities Summary

The Institute of Materials Processing (IMP)
Minerals & Materials Building
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Room 212
Minerals & Materials Building
Phone: 906/487-2600
Fax: 906/487-2921
Director: Jiann-Yang (Jim) Hwang
E-mail: jhwang@mtu.edu

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Director

Mark R. Plichta mrplich@mtu.edu 906.487.2630

Research Staff

J. Murray Gillis jmgillis@mtu.edu 906.487.1820

Research Engineer/Scientist I: Engineer/Scientist, process/product development, instrumentation and process control, ammounium carbonate leaching of metallic compounds, agglomeration of waste oxides, oxidation tower design, classification of fine particulate, spray drying of metallic compounds.

Allison Hein amhein@mtu.edu 906.487.1821

Research Engineer/Scientist I: Benificiation of coal, minerals, and solid waste. Plating sludge leaching and pyro processing. Environmental compliance and permits. Technical and financial project planning and reporting.

Xiaodi (Scott) Huang xihuang@mtu.edu 906.487.1822

Research Engineer/Scientist II: Consolidation of metal and ceramic powders by CastCon processing. Microwave steel making, agglomeration of ceramics, injection molding, and material characterization.

Bowen Li boli@mtu.edu  
Xiang Sun xisun@mtu.edu  

Faculty (Materials Science and Engineering)

Jaroslaw Drelich jwdrelic@mtu.edu 906.487.2932
Stephen Hackney hackney@mtu.edu 906.487.2170
Yun Hang Hu yunhangh@mtu.edu 906.487.2261
Paul Sanders sanders@mtu.edu 906.487.2339
Douglas Swenson dswenson@mtu.edu 906.487.3352
Calvin White cwhite@mtu.edu 906.487.3519

Associated Faculty

Gerard Caneba Chemical Engineering
Kathleen Feigl Mathematical Sciences
Amir Jalali Roudsar Physics
Franz Tanner Mathematical Sciences
Roger Turpening Geological and Mining Engineering
and Sciences
Xinli Wang School of Technology
Marta Wloch Chemistry
Song-Lin Yang Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Visiting Researchers

Parn Banerjee
Sayed ElNakhely
Xuan Li
Indraneel Tembhre
Changming Wang
Shuqian Xie

Graduate Students

Matthew Andriese
Wayne Bell
Daniel Hoffman
Zhiwei Peng
Shangzhao Shi
Chienyu Wen
Zheng Zhang

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