University of Massachusetts Amherst

Polymer Science and Engineering

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Richard E. Lyon
Rich Lyon is a Polymer Engineer and Program Manager of Fire Research at the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey. Current research involves development of new polymers, material models for fire response, and improved test methods and analyses for fire hazard assessment.
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2007

  • Jun Cui
  • Brenton Hammer
  • Nicholas Hendricks
  • Hyun Kim
  • Katrina Kratz
  • Joseph Krumpfer
  • Naveen Singh
  • A. Tezgel
  • Hitesh Thaker
  • Yongping Zha
  • Wei Zhao
  • Peiwen Zheng

2006

  • Dian Chen
  • Deniz Civay
  • Semra Colak
  • Chelsea Davis
  • Adam Hathorne
  • Ian Henderson
  • Jeffrey Kalish
  • Jung Kim
  • Le Li
  • Raghavendra Maddikeri
  • Daniel Miranda
  • Joseph Peterson
  • Shilpi Sanghi
  • Xinyu Wei
  • Onur Yordem

2005

  • Jared Archer
  • Malvika Bihari
  • Derek Breid
  • Wei Chen
  • Dalton Cheng
  • Beth Cooper
  • Andrew Detwiler
  • Burcin Erenturk
  • Yunxia Hu
  • Bokyung Kim
  • Stephen Mirigian
  • Christopher Scilla
  • Ji Xu
  • Christopher Ziegler

2004

  • Deepak Arora
  • Curran Chandler
  • Scott Eastman
  • Gunjan Gadodia
  • John Harner
  • Douglas Holmes
  • Mark Kelly
  • Damla Koylu
  • Surangkhana Martwiset
  • Jeremy Rathfon
  • Chiu Wong
  • Joonsung Yoon
  • Jessica Zimberlin

2003

  • Edwin Chan
  • Jiun-Tai Chen
  • Naomi Delong
  • Elizabeth Glogowski
  • Jinbo He
  • Rajeev Kumar
  • Mohit Mamodia
  • Charles Rand
  • Yoan Simon
  • Ravisubhash Tangirala
  • Jia-Yu Wang
  • Richard Woudenberg

2002

  • Christopher Forrey
  • Akinbode Isaacs-Sodeye
  • Jayaraman Krishnamoorthy
  • Jong-Young Lee
  • Jessica Mccoy
  • Ryan Murphy
  • Sivakumar Nagarajan
  • Zhaoyang Ou
  • Joanna Pool
  • Bradley Seurer
  • Dongseok Shin
  • Peter Walsh
  • Jianing Zhang
  • Qingling Zhang

2001

  • Khaled Aamer
  • Sterling Alfred
  • Kaoru Aou
  • Julie Belanger
  • Kurt Breitenkamp
  • Rebecca Breitenkamp
  • Kevin Calzia
  • Gregoire Cardoen
  • Suresh Gupta
  • Xiaochuan Hu
  • Narupol Intasanta
  • Ticora Jones
  • Zhixiang Lu
  • Jin Nam
  • James Sievert
  • Kevin Sill

2000

  • Ilke Anac
  • Lachelle Arnt
  • Engin Burgaz
  • Sian Fennessey
  • Kishore Indukuri
  • Pushkala Krishnamurthy
  • Kristopher Lavery
  • Yao Lin
  • Matthew Misner
  • Bryan Parrish
  • Alexei Popov
  • Habib Skaff
  • Sungkyun Sohn
  • Kevin Wier
  • Waiken Wong
  • Donna Wrublewski

1999

  • Gregory Constable
  • Manuel Garcia-Leiner
  • Margarita Herrera-Alonso
  • Mehmet Ilker
  • Rajeswari Kasi
  • Taehyung Kim
  • Mikhail Kozlov
  • Kathryn Leach
  • Joseph Mcnamara
  • Dmytro Nykypanchuk
  • Angelo Pedicini
  • Christopher Stanley
  • Irene Tsai
  • Drew Williams
  • Ting Xu

1998

  • Terrence Caskey
  • James Goldbach
  • Sheng Hong
  • Xinqiao Jia
  • Michael Leonard
  • Zhiqun Lin
  • Maria Menges
  • Richard Nause
  • Javid Rzayev
  • Kathryn Wright
  • Tao Xie
  • Tao Xu
  • Adam Zerda
  • Huiqing Zhang
  • Lei Zheng
  • Yuqing Zhu

1997

  • Yoko Aoyama
  • Chuntao Cao
  • Shujun Chen
  • Ru Feng
  • Douglas Howie
  • Robin Mckiernan
  • Jeremy Morin
  • Daniel Mowery
  • Didem Oner
  • Arun Raman
  • Xiaodong Wu
  • Lizhang Yang

1996

  • Garth Brown
  • Jason Derouchey
  • Douglas Harris
  • Amy Heintz
  • Terry Hobbs
  • Lawino Kagumba
  • Nicole Karttunen
  • Scott Kennedy
  • Kristi Kiick
  • Vivek Prabhu
  • Jill Sakata
  • Joel Schall
  • Christopher Stafford
  • Cynthia Welch
  • Paul Welch
  • Jeffrey Youngblood

1995

  • Gustavo Carri
  • Kathleen DiZio
  • Matthew Dunbar
  • David Flanagan
  • Mikhail Gelfer
  • Heather Hayes
  • Weiguo Hu
  • Elbert Huang
  • Xin Jin
  • Young-Je Kwark
  • Richard Larson
  • Jeffrey Linhardt
  • Michael Pollard
  • Yuanqiao Rao
  • Lee Rockford

1994

  • Kelyn Arora
  • Frederick Beyer
  • Emmett Crawford
  • Kenneth Ellzey
  • Meng Hsieh
  • Gene Kim
  • Robert Kody
  • Chung Kong
  • Edward Kung
  • Samuel Miller
  • Gregory Schueneman
  • Jennifer Stewart
  • Eric Welsh
  • Dorie Yontz

1993

  • Naveen Agarwal
  • Duangdao Aht-Ong
  • Howard Bowman
  • Wei Chen
  • Jennifer David
  • Georgia Fishburn
  • Thomas Hahn
  • Ekaterina Ponomarenko
  • Sophie Riou
  • Zhaohui Su
  • Michael Yu

1992

  • Andrew Bushelman
  • Michael Chen
  • Bert Chien
  • Darius Deak
  • Yvonne Kielhorn
  • Chester Liu
  • Derrick Mckie
  • Alyssa Panitch
  • Wendy Petka
  • Vipavee Phuvanartnuruks
  • Darrin Pochan
  • David Schlitzer
  • Shalabh Tandon
  • Regina Valluzzi
  • James Watkins
  • Meredith White
  • Patricia Willcox

1991

  • Chao-Cheng Chen
  • James Fishburn
  • Juha-Matti Levasalmi
  • Bodan Ma
  • David Macon
  • Brian Price
  • Thomas Scherer
  • Kapil Sheth
  • Weiming Tang
  • Paul Whaley
  • Dong Wu
  • Sunghoe Yoon
  • Jonathan Zissu

1990

  • Cynthia Athanasiou
  • Joanne Curley
  • Robert Fleming
  • Laurie Gower
  • Anthony Karandinos
  • Verna Lo
  • Chui-Wah Ng
  • Mario Perez
  • Devesh Srivastava
  • Hun-Jan Tao
  • Mark Timmins
  • Diane Vernino
  • Joan Vrtis
  • Frank Xu

1989

  • Hsin-Lung Chen
  • Yunwa Cheung
  • Susan Dawson
  • Michael DeRosa
  • Scott Joslin
  • Shaohua Li
  • Kenneth Milliken
  • Sridevi Narayan
  • John Neill
  • Murali Sethumadhavan
  • Margaret Starkweather
  • Jeffrey Taylor
  • Wanda Walczak
  • Marianne Yarmey

1988

  • Katherine Bakeev
  • Eugenia Dessipri
  • Elliot Douglas
  • Karla Gagnon
  • Robert Jennings
  • Eric Kendall
  • Mahesh Kotnis
  • Mark Krejchi
  • Christian Lietzau
  • Todd Mansfield
  • Thomas Mccarthy
  • Ajay Parkhe
  • Jeffrey Simpson
  • Quinn Tong

1987

  • Timothy Bee
  • Greggory Bennett
  • Howard Creel
  • Mark Dadmun
  • Nicole Franchina
  • Michael Graff
  • Young Kim
  • Jeffrey Kollodge
  • Robert Lescanec
  • Martin Lindway
  • Michele Maden
  • Warren Nachlis
  • Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos
  • Bert Reekmans
  • Kevin Schaffer
  • Aniruddha Shere
  • Molly Shoichet
  • Guanghui Zhang

1986

  • Gregory Beaucage
  • Robert Bening
  • Jay Goldfarb
  • Yihong Guo
  • Dhamodharan Iyengar
  • James Melenkevitz
  • Malika Menasveta
  • Anthony Plepys
  • Howard Schild
  • Dwight Schwark
  • James Vizzini
  • Karen Winey

1985

  • Elisa Cross
  • Cun-Feng Fan
  • Roberto Gregorius
  • Steven Hudson
  • Brant Kolb
  • Han Lee
  • David Martin
  • Michael Masse
  • Donald Meltzer
  • John Reffner
  • Nicholas Reynolds
  • Peter Stenhouse
  • Hong You
  • Yan Zhang

1984

  • Jean-Phillippe Autran
  • Richard Brady
  • John Connolly
  • Brian Devlin
  • Heung Kang
  • Robert Karcha
  • Joseph Machado
  • Kevin Mcgrath
  • Robyn Mcmillan
  • Sergio Rojstaczer
  • Michael Satkowski
  • Scott Starry
  • David Steppan
  • Samuel Thompson
  • Douglas Wicks

1983

  • Osamu Aoki
  • Charles Bauer
  • Keith Borden
  • Catherine Coleman
  • Douglas Cywar
  • Ta-Min Feng
  • Joseph Mallon
  • Richard Norton
  • Margaret Rakas
  • Edith Sevick
  • Paul Swanson
  • Arthur Tipton
  • David Waldman

1982

  • Gary Adams
  • Steven Arnold
  • Eric Beckman
  • Jean Brady
  • Francois Chambon
  • Makarand Chipalkatti
  • Yachin Cohen
  • Christine Costello
  • Carmen Covelli
  • Laurence Coyne
  • Anthony Dias
  • David Gagnon
  • Peter Kim
  • Christopher Lantman
  • Youngchul Lee
  • Herve Marand
  • Matthew Muir
  • Jerome Parmer
  • Kevin Schell
  • Jan Stouffer
  • Menas Vratsanos

1981

  • Matthew Bishop
  • John Bric
  • William Dickstein
  • Olimpia Federico
  • Daniella Fisher
  • Eric George
  • Paula Hahn
  • William Herman
  • Dave Kinning
  • Raymond Lo
  • Paul Lucas
  • Eva Marand
  • Penelope Patton
  • Lorelle Pottick
  • Ravi Saraf

1980

  • Hoe Chuah
  • Tzuu-Heng Fu
  • Michael Gilbert
  • James Jonza
  • Steven Molis
  • Cameron Murray
  • Michael Pottiger
  • John Reynolds
  • Michael Schen
  • Vivek Soni
  • Carl Sullivan
  • Bret Vanzo
  • Barbara Wood
  • Qi-Feng Zhou

1979

  • David Alward
  • Bruce Bengtson
  • Robert Briber
  • Steven Deteresa
  • Amy Finkenaur
  • Paul Grosso
  • Douglas Johns
  • Scott Kuehl
  • James Lasch
  • Richard Lyon
  • Mark Purgett
  • Paul Soskey
  • John Warakomski

1978

  • Walter Adams
  • Stephen Allen
  • Donald Burchell
  • Varkki Chacko
  • Dale Handlin
  • William Harris
  • Michael Malanga
  • Eileen Minter
  • Christopher Ober
  • Jessica Schroeder
  • Ronald Tabar

1977

  • Donald Bansleben
  • Christine Brunette
  • An-Lou Chang
  • Michael Jonte
  • John Minter
  • John Muggee
  • Edward Sherman
  • Martin Wai
  • Gary Wnek
  • Sherrie Zacharius

1976

  • Miomir Djordjevic
  • Robert Jenkins
  • Bruce Morra
  • Peter Moy
  • Ronald Wojcik

1975

  • Surendrakumar Agarwal
  • Peter Alexandrovich
  • David Anderson
  • Larry Corley
  • David Dana
  • Petar Dvornic
  • Thomas Earnest
  • Antonio Escala
  • Rosanna Falabella
  • Jehuda Greener
  • Steven Grossman
  • Margaret Parpart
  • Claudia Poser
  • Charles Ryan

1974

  • Robert Cembrola
  • Walter Deits
  • Jean Faullimmel
  • Gabor Kiss
  • Douglas Rahrig
  • Edward Roche
  • Thomas Russell
  • George Senich
  • David Tirrell
  • Stephanie Wunder

1973

  • Stanley Baczek
  • Christian D'hondt
  • Lawrence Demejo
  • Joel Fried
  • Paul Gilmore
  • Mitsuaki Hashiyama
  • Joseph Kiang
  • Ramon Lemos
  • William Perkins
  • Keith Saunders
  • Matthew Tirrell

1972

  • Allan Beeber
  • Richard Campbell
  • Frederick Cummings
  • Lothar Kleiner
  • Kenneth Rozkuszka
  • Tien-Kuei Su
  • Michael Wolkowicz

1971

  • David Bailey
  • Su-Don Hong
  • David Lipp
  • Alan Schuler

1970

  • Ananda Chatterjee
  • Dennis Hoffman
  • Joyce Illinger
  • Farrokh Khambatta
  • Ashok Misra
  • Charles Sherwood
  • James Tkacik

1969

  • Alfred Fritzsche
  • Roy Mcknight
  • Chung-Jian Ong
  • Shih-May Ong
  • Judith Sutherland
  • Norman Weeks
  • Do Yoon

1968

  • Charles Beatty
  • Saleh Jabarin
  • Wen-Cheng Kuo
  • Louis Mango
  • Lawrence Mckenna
  • Bernd Oster
  • Akira Tanaka
  • Jeou-Shyong Wang
  • Eugene Wilusz

1967

  • Eng-Pi Chang
  • Gershon Davis
  • Gerald Dever
  • Frederick Emerson
  • Santos Go
  • Takeji Hashimoto
  • Richard Penwell
  • William Prest
  • John Southern
  • Robert Ulrich
  • Michael Yang

1966

  • Tisato Kajiyama
  • William Taggart
  • Garth Wilkes
  • Chester Wu

M.S. Alumni by Entering Year  Top


2010

  • Xue Cai

2009

  • Varun Udeshi
  • Yuanlong Zhao

2008

  • Andrea Fortunato
  • Stephanie Trittschuh

2007

  • Eun Cho

2006

  • Katherine Best
  • Justin Fisher
  • Kanchana Weerakoon

2005

  • Casey Kimball
  • Janet Maegerlein
  • Jason Phillip
  • Genevieve Tucker

2004

  • Tomonori Hosoda
  • Xiongfei Zhang

2003

  • Chad Delong
  • Dina Feith
  • Anne-Marie Forcum
  • Paul Miska

2002

  • Mark Hageman
  • Roberto Laos
  • Christian Von Malotki

2001

  • David Carreiro
  • Samantha Garramone
  • Melissa Light
  • Katharine Nelson
  • Robert Pekrul
  • Alicia Toscano
  • Ben Vanmarcke

2000

  • Jeanette Craymer

1999

  • Thanh-Thuy Truong

1998

  • Christopher Buck
  • Michael Nutt

1997

  • Steven Haldeman
  • Cheryl Jacks
  • David Miller

1996

  • Sarah Jouppi
  • Jeonghan Kim

1995

  • Christopher Comeaux

1994

  • Jeffrey Cafmeyer
  • Rainer Erhardt
  • Erik Rogers
  • Brenda Rosenau

1993

  • Na Chai
  • Nathan Jones
  • Yuan Ren

1992

  • Woodward Jackson
  • Florian Roediger

1991

  • Lynore Abbott
  • Matthew Davis
  • Susan Ferline
  • Susan Lee

1990

  • Stephan Huette
  • Zoltan Peredy
  • Karen Sy

1989

  • Daniel Choi
  • Hansmartin Herzog
  • Ann Jacob
  • Hiroaki Namba
  • Roland Wallis

1988

  • Craig Pehlert
  • Deborah Vezie

1987

  • Michael Berlin
  • Cynthia Klausner
  • Frank Mari
  • Jack Tran

1986

  • Chinho Chen
  • Sushant Jain
  • Tracey Margraf
  • Margo Raate
  • Alodia Schwark

1985

  • Joan Muellerleile
  • Susan Neadle
  • Susan-Wendy Neadle
  • John Quagliano
  • Thomas Yokoyama

1984

  • Mark Hanes

1983

  • Nancy Goldberg
  • Doreen Herman

1982

  • Walt Bassett
  • Herbert Frost
  • Bradley Orchard

1981

  • James Capistran
  • Heidi Dickstein
  • Nicole Fritts
  • Gary Jaycox
  • Rong-Hwei Juang
  • Andrew Lee
  • Dhei-Jhai Lin
  • Christopher Perry
  • Ellen Rubinstein
  • Helen Sherwood
  • Choo Soon

1980

  • Chadli Benelhadjsaid
  • Lars Berglund
  • Michael Crandall
  • Michael Drzewinski
  • Marie Hersman
  • Hiroshi Hoshino
  • Ameeta Narula
  • Lawrence Van Iseghem

1979

  • Eileen Bailey
  • Vicki Crosby
  • Marc Daniels
  • Ronald Grossman
  • Elizabeth Hubbard
  • Patricia Leite-James
  • Su-Min Oon
  • Louis Rosati
  • Debra Simoff

1978

  • Therese Bauman
  • Jeffrey Gelorme
  • Warren Isabelle
  • Thomas Juska
  • Mark Rossman

1977

  • Steven Blanks
  • Jerry Eaton
  • Jorge Farber
  • Israel Fridman
  • Bahram Siadat
  • Robert Srubas
  • Thu Stankunas
  • Denise Williams

1976

  • Ronny Deere
  • Alan Ingall
  • Steven Keinath
  • Stanislas Nowocien
  • Gregory O'Brien
  • Yuan-Daw Tsai

1975

  • Marjorie Bannish
  • Janet Charpentier
  • Paul-Li Horng
  • Signe Lund
  • Lane Shaw

1974

  • Joseph Grabon
  • Allen Padwa

1973

  • Joseph Fink
  • Thomas Kirschner

1972

  • Beata Abbs
  • Ortelio Foyo-Carbonell
  • Donald Gaylord
  • Takeo Yuasa

1971

  • Yoshinori Akana
  • Mona Hamdy
  • Kenneth Neeld
  • Tokio Niikuni
  • Daniel Pauk
  • Thomas Riihimaki
  • Daniel Roberts
  • Edwin Thomas
  • John Thornton

1970

  • Kenichi Baba
  • Nikolaos Demetriadis
  • Charles Griffen
  • Louis Manrique
  • Gerald Moore

1969

  • David Alberghini
  • Kenneth Ashley
  • Terrence Cassidy
  • Shih-May Chou
  • Gragory Cigal
  • Sherry Fang
  • Guy Fragala
  • Sarah Lien
  • Francis Murphy
  • Abraham Reisman
  • Robert Ross
  • George Sheldrick
  • Rajballav Sinha

1968

  • Pradeep Kapadia
  • Yatendra Kumar
  • Richard Zielinski

1967

  • Bernard Mentro
  • Ashwin Patel
  • Taghi Toosi
  • Anil Torgalkar

1966

  • William Robinson
  • James Sampson

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2013

  • Hyunbok Lee
  • Ganghao Lu
  • Charlotte Mallet
  • Aabid Mir
  • Egle Puodziukynaite
  • Megan Szyndler

2012

  • Monojit Bag
  • Jayanta Baral
  • Ploy Charoenphol
  • Sandipan Dawn
  • Xiaosong Du
  • Bob (Tsung-Hao) Fu
  • Supravat Karak
  • Fatma Koyunc0
  • Xiaohui Liu
  • Daniel Miranda
  • Jun-Hee Na
  • Gang Qian
  • Kinkini Roy
  • Sunil Singh
  • Dong Po Song
  • Hongtao Zhang

2011

  • Laju Bu
  • Myunghwan Byun
  • Eduardo Silva Cruz
  • Jeannette Geschwind
  • Kyu Young Heo
  • Shelby Hutchens
  • Ying Jin
  • Bokyung Kim
  • Huarong Nie
  • Awaneesh Singh
  • Huseyin Tas
  • Liming Wang
  • Bin Xu
  • Hao Zhang

2010

  • Xiaolang Chen
  • Aline Delbos
  • Jacob John
  • Jung-Keun Kim
  • Dong Yun Lee
  • Eunji Lee
  • Yan Li
  • Badel Mbanga
  • David Mesguich
  • Emily Pentzer
  • Angela Sauers
  • Kalasin Surachate
  • Qingshuo Wei
  • Ying Wu
  • Luc (Lei) Yu
  • Wei Zheng

2009

  • Woo Jin Bae
  • Pei Bian
  • Dinesh Chandra
  • Bing Fang
  • Jungah Lim
  • Ying Lin
  • Jin Young Park
  • Patrick Taylor
  • Xiguo Zeng
  • Lei Zhang

2008

  • Humin Bao
  • Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
  • Xiangji Chen
  • Andrew Croll
  • John Ell
  • Lichao Gao
  • Sergio Granados-Focil
  • Sung Woo Hong
  • Haeng-Deog Koh
  • Dong-Hyun Lee
  • Ronald Lerum
  • Haiyun Lu
  • Huming Mao
  • Garnier Guillaume Miquelard
  • Mithun Mitra
  • Deepa Puthanparambil
  • Erica Saltzman
  • Anatoli Serghei
  • Homin Shin
  • Treniece Terry
  • Jinwan Yoon
  • Ke Zhang

2007

  • Delphine Chan-Seng
  • Santanu Kundu
  • Bingbing Li
  • Smitha Nair
  • Jian Wu

2006

  • Alina Alb
  • Jianxin Feng
  • Cuihong Jiang
  • Kyriaki Kalaitzidou
  • Ajay Singh Panwar
  • Hemali Rathnayake
  • Beom Young Ryu
  • Debasis Samanta
  • Pallikkava Sudeep
  • Radha Rani Vippagunta
  • Chang Xu
  • Ling Yang
  • Jintao Zhu

2005

  • Martha Azuero
  • Joonwon Bae
  • Liming Ding
  • Sarav Jhaveri
  • Jing Jiang
  • Bon-Cheol Ku
  • Thangamani Ranganathan
  • Jiafang Wang
  • Bogdan Zdyrko

2004

  • Zoha Al Badri
  • Ali Cirpan
  • Gregory Gabriel
  • Arindam Kundagrami
  • Ravindra Revanur
  • Guo-Lin Wu
  • Feng Yi
  • Mingfu Zhang

2003

  • Young Gyu Jeong
  • Jung Ah Lee
  • Kyusoon Shin
  • Raja Shunmugam

2002

  • Hongqi Xiang
  • Seunghoo Yoo

 

  • Tarik Eren
  • Ahmad Madkour
  • Sung Cheal Moon
  • Isaac Moran
  • Adam O'neil
  • Sangram S. Parelkar
  • Bernabe Quevedo
  • Federica Sgolastra
  • Morris Slutsky

Senior Research Fellows  Top


2012

  • Jea Woong Jo

2011

  • Jae Woong Jung

2010

  • Jan Kalfus

2005

  • Abhigyan Som

 

  • Yuying Tang

 

 

 

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