Prof Mark S Spearing
Deputy Head of School of Engineering (Research), Head of Group, Professor of Engineering Materials
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Website:www.ses.soton.ac.uk/projects/Materials/Staff-Materials/SM_Spearing/sm_spearing.html
Research group: Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS): materials, processes, structures
joining processes; fracture and fatigue of composite materials
reliability engineering and structural health monitoring Biographical notes
Mark Spearing is a Professor in the School of Engineering Sciences, Southampton University and is head of the Engineering Materials research group and deputy head of School of Engineering Science for research. He received his Ph.D from Cambridge University Engineering Department in 1990, working on the fatigue damage mechanics of carbon fiber composites. He worked as a research engineer at UC Santa Barbara from 1990-92 where he developed models for the failure of high temperature ceramic materials. From 1992-94 he was an engineering specialist at BP Research and subsequently a research engineer for Carborundum Microelectronics, where he was a member of the electronic packaging technology development team. From 1994 to 2004 he was on the faculty of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving tenure in 2001, and being appointed Full Professor in 2004. Professor Spearing's research focuses on developing mechanism-based models and design approaches for the failure of advanced engineered materials. His research activities involve advanced composites, layered materials and materials, structures and processes for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and other microsystems. He also works in the area of structural health monitoring of composite structures. His educational activities focus on integrating the teaching of materials and structures.
In November 2004 Professor Spearing received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was chairman of that organization's Materials Technical Committee from 1997-1999. He is a member of the American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Engineering Education and the American Society for Composites. He is an editor of J. Microelectromechanical Systems and has published over 150 papers including over 60 in refereed journals. He organized Materials Research Society symposia on the Materials Science of MicroElectromechanical Systems in 2000 and 2001. Professor Spearing twice won the MIT Aero/Astro Department's award for outstanding teaching in 1995 and 1997, and its award for student advising in 1999 and 2000.
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