Edmund Webb III
Email: ebw210@lehigh.edu
Phone: (610) 758-5168
Fax: (610) 758-6224
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 2010
Education:
Ph.D. Ceramic and Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, 1996
B.S.Ceramic Engineering, Rutgers University, 1991
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, 1998 - 2010
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research applies simulation techniques across multiple length and time scales to elucidate fundamental phenomena controlling the mechanical response of materials. Current studies include stress evolution in nanostructures and thin films, capillary driven fluid flow in reactive flow systems, and mass and heat transport processes at interfaces between dissimilar materials.
Honors and awards:
Dynamics of Wetting (November 2008)
- Sandia National Laboratories Recognition Award - outstanding contributions to the
Dynamic Materials External Advisory Panel Review (November 2007)
- SNL Recognition Award - participation in the Intel International Science & Engineering
Fair Student Program (August 2007)
- Co-chair for Modeling and Simulation of Nano Materials and Mechanics Symposium
at the 9th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (July 2007)
- SNL Recognition Award - outstanding contributions to the annual Materials Science
& Technology External Advisory Panel Review (February 2007)
- Outstanding LDRD Project Team Award for research on liquids wetting solids (November
2005)
-SNL Recognition Award - excellence in publication for Langmuir article on wetting of
binary polymer droplets (October 2005)
- SNL Recognition Award - strategic research directions planning for Computational
Materials Science & Engineering (May 2004)
- MRS Poster Competition Honorable Mention (March 2002)
-SNL Recognition Award - excellence in research for invited presentation at the annual
meeting of the American Physical Society (April 2000)
- Corning Incorporated Research Foundation Graduate Fellowship; Rutgers University
Ceramic and Materials Science and Engineering graduate scholarships