David Clark
Department Head and Professor, PE

213-D Holden Hall (0237)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: (540) 231-6640
Fax: (540) 231-8919

E-mail: dclark@vt.edu

Recent Publications

Microwave Lab

 

 

 

• Nuclear waste materials
  
• Environmental degradation of glass and ceramics
  
• Microwave processing
  
• Materials engineering
  
• Ceramics
  
• Sol-gel processing
  
• Coatings
  
• Glass
  
• Ceramic superconductor
  
• Sol-gel fibers
  
• Self-propagating high temperature synthesis

• B.S., Metallurgical Engineering,
  University of Florida, 1969
  
• M.S., Materials Science Engineering,
  University of Florida, 1970
  
• Ph.D., Materials Science Engineering,
  University of Florida, 1976

• Greaves-Walker Award, National Institute of Ceramic Engineers, 2002
  
• Fellow of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers
  
• Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
  
  2000 Friedberg Memorial Lecturer
  
• James I. Mueller Memorial Lecturer, Engineering

  Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society, 1993
  
• Received UF's Research Achievement Award in 1990
  

  Engineering Teacher-of-the-Year in 1989
  
• Former president of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers
  
• Former chair of the Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society
  
• Chaired the Second World Congress on Microwave and RF Processing
  
• Elected to a second three-year term as a trustee of the American Ceramic Society