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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society will dedicate a symposium at its upcoming national meeting to the memory of the late Mehmet Uz, Lafayette professor of chemical engineering.
On Monday, Feb. 26, TMS will dedicate its symposium on refractory metals to the memory of Uz, who died Nov. 11. Scientists, engineers, researchers, and academicians will attend the society’s 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition, entitled “Linking Science and Technology for Global Solutions,” Feb. 25 to March 1 at Walt Disney World in Florida. Featuring programming in three topical areas, light metals; extraction, processing, structure, and properties; and emerging materials, the meeting will include presentations of scientific research, plenary sessions, programmed and impromptu discussions, and an exhibition of the latest product and service solutions.
Uz’s research centered on refractory metals and their alloys, materials whose properties make them suitable for use in advanced power systems, including nuclear fusion reactors. A recipient of several grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA, he conducted research in the Energy Technology Division of the energy department’s Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, each summer from 1995 through 2000 and as visiting scientist during the 2000-01 academic year during which he was on leave from Lafayette.
He also conducted research at the energy department’s Ames Laboratory, in Iowa, in the summers of 1986 and 1989, and in the Materials Division of NASA’s Lewis Research Center (now known as Glenn Research Center), in Cleveland, each summer from 1990 through 1994. Uz authored numerous technical reports and papers for those agencies, as well as articles in academic publications such as Journal of Nuclear Materials.