Faculty

Brent L. Adams

Dusenberry Professor

Office: 455B CTB
Phone: 801-422-7124
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Office Hours:

M-F				*
* By appointment only

Mailing Address:
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
435 CTB
Provo, UT 84602

Introduction

Brent L. Adams is Dusenberry Professor of Mechanical Engineering at BYU. From 1976-80 he was Senior Research Engineer for Babcock and Wilcox Company, and in 1980 he served as a member of the National Clad and Duct Committee for the breeder reactor program at Hanford. Since then he has been a professor of materials science at University of Florida and Carnegie Mellon University, and a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University and Brigham Young University. He was recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985-1990). Prof. Adams directed the team of researchers that developed the orientation imaging microscope, which is now used by over 400 laboratories in some 30 countries of the world to advance the development of materials. He is the author of 180 papers, five edited proceedings and a new textbook entitled Microstructure Sensitive Design for Performance Optimization.