Openings

The group is always actively seeking graduate students with expertise in Mechanical, Materials, and Nuclear engineering. Interested candidates, please email the PI at cecastano@ksu.edu. Students with a strong background in surface engineering, plasma-assisted techniques, and hands-on experience in advanced characterization equipment are a plus.

 Example of Past Projects:

• Advanced Surface Coating of Metallic Powders by Vibration-Enhanced High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering for Sintering-Based Manufacturing (NSF) (News)

• Advanced Characterization Of ATF Cladding for Understanding their Degradation Under Short Time Temperature Excursions And Implications in Dry Storage (NRC) (News) (To work in this project US Citizenship Required or LPR)

• Catalyst Enabled Tandem Wacker/Reductive Amination of Alkenes under Continuous Flow  (NSF I/UCRC) 

• Prototype Development of an Industrial-Scale Powder Holder (Magnetic/Electric Biasing) for Magnetron Sputtering (Commercialization Fund - VCU)