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Email: jha3@psu.edu Phone: (814) 863-6047 Office Address: Title: Professor Website: https://www.c2m.psu.edu/ Research Areas: Education Background: |
About:Ayala is the William A. Fustos Family Professor in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State. He began in 2004. He is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Fulbright-Colciencias Innovation and Technology Award. He has also received the Wilson Award for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award from Penn State, several Outstanding Technical Editor Awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and a Presidential distinction for Academic Excellence from Venezuela. He holds two B.S. degrees (both with summa cum laude honors), one in chemical engineering and another in petroleum engineering from the Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela), and an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Penn State. He is currently executive editor for the SPE Journal and former editor-in-chief of The Way Ahead SPE magazine and has served in numerous other technical journal boards and SPE committees, including the Reservoir Description and Dynamics Advisory Committee, the Book Development Committee, and the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Technical Committees (Reservoir Engineering and Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media).Research Interests:• 2D materials• Biomedical materials • Extraction of valuable species from coal • Materials chemistry • Nanoscience and nanotechnology • Additive manufacturing Memberships & Committees:• 2018 – present: Editorial Board of the International Journal of Ceramics• 2010-present: Editorial Board, The Internet Journal for Nanotechnology • 2010-present: Member, Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Education and Training Internal Advisory Committee • 2008-present: National Cancer Institute Nano-Bio Advisory Board • 2007-2010: Editorial Board, Journal of Nanomaterials • 1976-present: American Ceramic Society, Pennsylvania State University Student Branch Advisor • 1998-current; University of Florida Student Branch Advisor • 1990-1997; Secretary (Central Pennsylvania Section, 1986-87); Contributing Editor (1988) • United States Symposium Committee Member for the Third International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Engines (Las Vegas, NV, November 27-30, 1988) • Chair of the Symposium on Colloidal Processing and Green Forming of Ceramics at the 91st Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, IN, April 23-27, 1989) • Co-Chair of the Symposium on Surface Reactions in Ceramic Systems at the 93rd Annual Meeting (Cincinnati, OH, April 28-May 2, 1991) • Co-Chair of the Symposium on Characterization Techniques for Solid-Solution Interfaces in Ceramic Systems held at the 94th Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, MN, April 12-16, 1992) • Co-Editor of the Ceramic Transactions Volume on Characterization of the Solid-Solution Interface in Ceramic Systems; Co-Chair of the Symposium on Environmental Stability of Ceramic Materials held at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society in April 1993 • Co-Chair of the Symposium on the Science, Technology, and Applications of Colloidal Suspensions held at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society in April 1994 • Co-Chair of the Symposium on the Science, Technology, and Commercialization of Powder Synthesis and Shape Forming held at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society in April 1995 • Co-Editor of the Ceramic Transactions on Science, Technology, and Commercialization of Powder Synthesis and Shape Forming • Secretary of the Basic Science Division, 1996-97 • Co-Chair of the Symposium on Colloidal Chemistry Applied to Ceramic Processing, held at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, in May 1997 • Vice-Chair of the Basic Science Division, 1997-1998, Chair-Elect of the Basic Science Division, 1998-current; Chair of the Basic Science Division, May 2000-April 2001; Basic Science Division Mentor, April 2001 through April 2004; Basic Science Division member of Fellows Committee, 2005-2008. • 1974-present: Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honorary society, University of Florida. • 1976-present: Florida Blue Key, University of Florida leadership honorary society. • 1977-present: Epsilon Lambda Chi, engineering leadership honorary, University of Florida. • 1977-present: Alpha Sigma Mu, materials science honor society, National Board of Trustees, October 1989-1991. • 1986-present: American Chemical Society, Co-Chair of the Symposium on Chemistry in Ceramic Processing held at the Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society in September • 1988; Chair of the Symposium on Applications of Chemistry to Materials Science held at the Florida Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in May 1995. • 1985-present: Materials Research Society. • 1988-present: International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, University of Florida Student Chapter Advisor; The Pennsylvania State University Student Chapter Advisor, 1988. • 1994-present: Member, New York Academy of Sciences. • 1996-present: Member, Order of the Engineer. • 2000-present: Member, Sigma Xi. • 2006-present: Academician Fellow in the World Academy of Ceramics. Honors & Awards:2018: Invent Penn State University Inventor of the Year Award; one award per year within the Penn State University system decided via peer review recognizing a career of innovation, including scientific reports, entrepreneurship, patents and licenses.2017: Faculty Scholar Medal; one of six faculty in The Pennsylvania State University System. 2015: Named as the Earth and Mineral Sciences representative for the Schreyer Honors College Distinguished Honors Faculty Program 2013: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Paul F. Robertson Breakthrough of the Year Award. 2011: Faculty of the Year Award in the Department of Material Science and Engineering by anonymous nomination and vote by the undergraduate students 2010: Selected for Miller Family Faculty Fellowship, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State University 2006: Elected to the World Academy of Ceramics 2000-2001: Chair, Basic Science Division, American Ceramic Society. 2000: Elected to membership in Sigma Xi, research honorary. 1998: Elected Fellow, American Ceramic Society. 1998: Chair-Elect, Basic Science Division, American Ceramic Society. 1997: Vice-Chair, Basic Science Division, American Ceramic Society. 1996: Cabot Inventor Award, Cabot Corporation, Boyertown, PA. 1996: Secretary, Basic Science Division, American Ceramic Society, elected in a general election of the membership. 1996: Men of Achievement: 17th Edition, International Biographical Centre, H. Turnbull, Ed., Cambridge, England, May 1996. 1995: Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) Award, College of Engineering, University of Florida. 1995: Faculty Excellence Award, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida. 1995: Nominated by Department Chair for the College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. 1994-present: Elected to membership in the New York Academy of Sciences 1994: Nominated by Department Chair for the College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. 1989: Xerox Research Award, The Pennsylvania State University. 1987: Battelle Inventor Award, Battelle Memorial Institute. 1985: Ceramic Materials and Processes Intellectual Property Achievement Award, Battelle Columbus Laboratories. 1981-1982: J. William Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and the Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth. 1977-present: Alpha Sigma Mu, materials honorary. 1977-present: Epsilon Lambda Chi, engineering leadership honorary. 1976-present: Keramos, Ceramics Honor Society, ceramic honorary. 1976-present: Florida Blue Key, leadership honorary. 1974-present: Omicron Delta Kappa, leadership-scholarship honorary. Teaching:The Pennsylvania State University (1998-present)MATSE 597: Dispersion of Powders in Complex Liquids, Spring 2017, to be submitted in July 2017 as a permanent graduate course. MATSE 497 (Co-listed as BME 497): Nanomedical Applications in Materials Science, Spring 2015, 2016, and 2017. To be submitted to the Faculty Senate, July 2017 as a permanent undergraduate course. BME 443 (co-Listed as MATSE 403): Biomedical Materials, Fall 2014 to present. BME444 (co-listed as MATSE 404): Surfaces and the Biological Response to Materials: Spring 2017-present. MATSE 514 Materials Characterization (graduate) Spring, 2001 through 2008; Fall 2009 through Fall 2013; Fall 2016 MatSE 90H High-Tech Materials, honors (undergraduate) with E. Ryba, Spring 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2005; Fall 2004 and 2005. CerSE 404 Senior Field Trip, Fall 2000. MatSE 411 (formerly CerSE 406), Ceramic Powder Processing, (undergraduate) with G.L. Messing in Fall 2000, Fall 2002. CerSE 461 Ceramics Laboratory 1: (undergraduate) Fall 1999, 2000, 2001. MatSE 468 (formerly CerSE 463): Processing and Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Ceramics Lab 3 with D. J. Green, (undergraduate) Fall 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. MatSE 492W Materials Design: Spring 2007. MATSE 507 Advanced Surface Energetics; Fall, 2018, 2019. MatSE 597C (formerly CerSC 597C) Applied Colloid and Interfacial Chemistry, (graduate) Spring 1999; Fall 2001 and 2005; Spring 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. MatSE 597G Colloid and Interfacial Chemistry Laboratory, (graduate) Spring 2000, Fall 2001. MATSC 597B Precipitation of Powders from Liquids, (graduate) Fall 2009. Publications:Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/james-hansell-adair/publications/ Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5xJT2-8AAAAJ
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