Richard C. Alkire
(217) 333-0063
297 RAL
Qualifications:
GPA: >3.5 in technical courses
Coursework Criteria: Junior or senior standing.
Other:
- Students do research in collaboration with a graduate
student or postdoctoral mentors; weekly meetings with Professor
to track progress, remove barriers
- Some projects are experiments; some involve simulation/programming;
some involve both.
- Teamwork, motivation, leadership, communication, and developlment
of technical competence are critically important
Research: Electrochemical Engineering
Professor Alkire's research: Experiments on deposition and
dissolution of metal; Multiscale numerical simulation from
atomic-to-processing scales; Applications based on electrochemical
phenomena.
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