Dr. Richard E. Tressler was an international leader in the development of high temperature materials. He pioneered high temperature fiber testing and use, advanced instrumentation and test methodologiesfor thermostructural materials, and design and performance verification of ceramics and composites in high temperature aerospace, industrial and energy applications. He was founding director of the Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) which supported many faculty and students from the College of Earth and Mineral Science, the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering, the Materials Research Laboratory and the Applied Research Laboratories at Penn State on high temperature materials. His vision for interdiscipling research played a key role in the creation of the Materials Research Institute, and the establishment of Penn State as an acknowledged leader among major universities in materials education and research. More...

2010 Richard E. Tressler Distinguished Lecturers

	March 18, 2010 Joseph A. Miller Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Corning, Inc. Corning’s Growth Strategy – Innovation in Materials Science
	March 30, 2010 Gerbrand Ceder R. P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Materials Design with First Principles Computations and Application to Materials for Energy Storage and Generation
	April 1, 2010 Naomi J. Halas Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Plasmonics: From Artificial Molecules to Real Applications
	April 8, 2010 Ed Kramer Turnbull Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara Phase Transitions with Thin Block Copolymer Films