Professor Nikhilesh Chawla This is Me

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1. 1. materialstechnology.tms.org

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   Published on: 4/5/2008   Last Visited: 7/3/2008

   By Nik Chawla, Arizona State University
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   Nik Chawla, a professor and the director of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials Facility at Arizona State University's (ASU) School of Materials, provides an overview of current research projects on lead-free solders at ASU.Click the link at the end of this article to view additional papers describing the group's research on thermal fatigue behavior of tin-rich lead-free solders, novel rare-earth containing lead-free solders for microelectronic applications, shape-memory alloy fiber-reinforced lead-free solder composites for electronic packaging, and three-dimensional microstructure-based modeling of deformation in a tin-rich solder.Chawla can be reached at Nikhilesh.Chawla@asu.edu for more information.
   
   Figure 1a.
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   5. X. Deng, N. Chawla, K.K. Chawla, and M. Koopman, "Deformation Behavior of (Cu, Ag)-Sn Intermetallics by Nanoindentation," Acta Materialia, 52 (2004), pp.4291,4303.

2. 2. JOM 0602: Tales from Materials Science and Engineering Families

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   Published on: 11/22/2007   Last Visited: 4/18/2008

   Krishan Chawla (left) and his son, Nik Chawla, at a TMS meeting.
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   Krishan and Nik are both active members of the TMS Composite Materials Committee, which Nik currently chairs.
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   For Nik Chawla, whose father Krishan teaches materials science and engineering to college students, it was the lifestyle of a professor that drew him to engineering.Growing up, Nik often went to work with his father in the lab.
   
   "It was never explicitly put into my head that this was a great thing to do," said Nik."But I saw that you got to be your own boss, you got to work with young people, and you get to wear sneakers and comfortable clothing."
   
   He also appreciated the concept of tenure.While other kids worried when their fathers were laid off, Nik knew his father had a job for life.Of course, the idea of passing on knowledge appealed to him as well.
   
   "I thought, ‘This is not a bad lifestyle,'" said Nik, who is now an associate professor at Arizona State University.
   
   ENCOURAGEMENT, NOT PRESSURE
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   Krishan Chawla was teaching at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology when Nik was a student there.
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   In his senior year, Nik signed up for two classes with his father: mechanical metallurgy and composites.Coincidentally (or not), his father decided to take a sabbatical that semester.
   
   WHAT'S IN A NAME?
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   Nik Chawla was once asked by a colleague- who had read his work but never met him in person-to write an article for an encyclopedia.When the two finally met, the colleague looked confused and told Nik, "You know, I thought that you were shorter and grayer and you had a little goatee."
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   In 2005, father/son team Nik and Krishan Chawla completed their first book together, Metal-Matrix Composites (which can be purchased through the on-line TMS Document Center at doc.tms.org).
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   They plan to collaborate on additional projects in the future and their paths often cross professionally through their active participation in the composites field and the TMS Composite Materials Committee, of which Nik is currently chair (Figure 4).
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   "That's the only time I can get away with it," Nik added.
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   Nik would come home and tell his father, "It's not easy to follow in your footsteps.
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   "From here on, I'm known as Nik's father," Krishan said.

3. 3. Lead-Free 2006: Home Page

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   Published on: 11/15/2006   Last Visited: 7/3/2008

   Nikhilesh Chawla
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   Nikhilesh Chawla
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   Nikhilesh Chawla, Ph.D. , is professor of materials engineering at Arizona State University and director of the university's interdisciplinary Mechanical Behavior of Materials Facility.His research interests encompass the mechanical behavior and modeling of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales, including Pb-free solders, metal matrix composites, biocompatible coatings, metal-ceramic nanolaminates, and powder metallurgy alloys.He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in these areas and is the co-author of the textbook Metal Matrix Composites.Professor Chawla is chair of the TMS Composite Materials Committee and a member of both the TMS Electronic Packaging and Interconnect Materials Committee and the TMS Mechanical Behavior Committee.