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Emeritus Faculty

Brent L. Adams

May 27, 2020 01:46 PM
Emeritus Professor
Office
CB 165

Email
b_l_adams@byu.edu

Office Hours
Monday-Wednesday 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Research
Grain boundaries and defect sensitive properties. Microstructures for highly-constrained design.

Background
Brent L. Adams is Dusenberry Professor of Mechanical Engineering at BYU. From 1976-80 he was Senior Research Engineer for Babcock and Wilcox Company, and in1980 he served as a member of the National Clad and Duct Committee for the breeder reactor program at Hanford. Since then he has since been a professor of materials science at University of Florida and Carnegie Mellon University, and a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University and Brigham Young University. He was recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985-1990). Prof.