Allen Jackson

Background

About Allen Jackson

Activities: Served on several PhD committees and MSc committees (Wright State) Past Member of ASM Structures Committee, Organizer and Chairman: Fundamentals of Crystallography Tutorial, Fall TMS meeting, Cincinnati, 1991; President of Electron Microscopy Society of Ohio River Valley (EMSORV), 1991-92; Education Chairman of Dayton Chapter of ASM International, 1989-90; Co-organizer (with W. Wade Adams) of SEMEDS project: SEM Educators project to provide electron microscopy exposure in a laboratory setting to secondary school teachers and students; Co-organizer and topic editor of the electronic journal Innovations in Materials Process Design. Accomplishments: •Applied innovative experiments in engineering lab course at WSU •Wrote book chapter on nanoscale characterization of materials •Established international cooperative programs with scientists in Russia and Ukraine and Japan RACE effort •Organized two international symposia •Designed concept for NanoModeler materials design and simulation system •Prepared and published highly successful electron microscopy handbook •Introduced and applied two new techniques for materials classification •Generated program for creating pyramidal nets •Generated program for accomplishing rough sets analysis •Co-Designed KnowBE dynamic knowledge base system Semiconductor database created •Created a symmetry recognition algorithm successfully used in electron diffraction • Interpreted and applied to data discovery methods algorithms created by V. Gladun for prediction of properties of materials. Professional Associations: American Physical Society Sigma Pi Sigma