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...

2011 Richard E. Tressler Distinguished Lecturers

	March 24, 2011 Donald W. Hamer Chairman, State of the Art, Inc. State College, PA Looking Back at 50+ years in Electronic Components Manufacturing-Lessons Learned-Looking Forward
	March 31, 2011 L. Eric Cross Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University Flexoelectric Composites: An Attractive Alternative Approach to High Activity Lead-free Piezoelectrics
	April 7, 2011 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Emeritus Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Promise of Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Applications