In the News

• August 27th, 2009 04:52 PM
  New Faculty Position Available

• August 27th, 2009 04:33 PM
  Our Department Welcomes Dev Chidambaram

• June 20th, 2009 01:19 PM
  Renewing the Future

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Jeff LaCombe

My current and past activities in this area have involved the study and application of a range of solidification and crystal growth processes. I have a strong background particularly in the science and physics of dendritic solidification and pattern formation during crystal growth. read more »

Research Strengths and Focus

The department current research efforts focus on:

• Renewable Energy
• Energy Storage Materials
• Polymer Science and Engineering
• Surface Chemistry
• Hydrometallurgical Processing
• Nano-Materials Synthesis and Processing
• Metallic Foams and Porous Materials
• Alternative Energy and Environmental Remediation
• Process Systems Engineering
• Molecular Modeling

For more details see our faculty members research interests and projects.

Facilities

The Paul Laxalt Mineral Engineering houses classrooms, research and teaching laboratories, and departmental and staff offices. The department has fully equiped process control and unit operations laboratories for teaching several courses of our curriculum.

The Department have access to mordern computer facilities for both research and teaching activities. The college of engineering has state of the art computing teaching labs and the University manages several computer clusters for research purposes.

Renewable Energy Center

The Renewable Energy Center at the University of Nevada, Reno coordinates collaborative research and educational projects at UNR including geothermal, biomass, hydrogen energy and solar. Our faculty is heavily involved with the activities of the center.

Research Equipment and Instrumentation

Our department houses major research equipment and instrumentation including:

• Hitachi S-4700 Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
• JEOL 2100F Transmission Electron Microscope
• Atomic Force Microscope (AFM, Nano R2, Pacific Nano Technology)
• Gas Chromatograph, High Performance Liquid Choromatography (HPLC, Shimadzu)
• Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA-50, Shimadzu), DSC (Shimadzu, DSC 60)
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