2026 April Dr. Ouyang was selected to join Alpha Sigma Mu, the International Professional and Honor Society for Materials Science and Engineering, for the recognition of his outstanding achievements, leadership, and contributions to research and education in the field.
2026 March Dr. Ouyang is the recipient of TMS Light Metals Award of 2026.
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2025 Nov Our student Humphrey (AlCe project) passed his Phd final defense. Congratulations on him being a Dr.!
2025 July Dr. Ouyang hosted two SULI students (Samuel Crowley from the University of Connecticut and William Ehrlich from Kenyon College, Ohio) in the summer of 2025, working on AlCe alloy (Sam) and FeSi alloys (Will).
2025 June We are awarded for 6 months by Ameslab Technology Maturation Program (PI: Ouyang) to develop cost-effective shape memory tires.
2025 April Our student Humphrey (AlCe project)passed his PhD prelim exam. Congratulations on him being a PhD candidate!
2025 April Our student Nakyung (FeSi project) passed her PhD prelim exam. Congratulations on her being a PhD candidate!
2025 March Dr. Ouyang presented two invited talks at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, FL, USA, one on soft magnetic materials and another on refractory alloys. The titles are: Design of high silicon steel with improved physical properties; Creep resistant refractory multiple principal element alloy.
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2024 Nov Our paper on aluminum alloys "Effect of Thermomechanical Processing on Mechanical Properties and the Microstructure of Binary Al-Ce Alloy" is published in Materials Science and Engineering A. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509324013261
2024 July Dr. Ouyang hosted a SULI student Tate Adams coming from Utah State University in the summer of 2024, working on Al-Ce-Zr alloy.
2024 June We are awarded for 6 months by Ameslab Technology Maturation Program (PI: Ouyang) to develop high silicon steel flakes.
2024 March Dr. Ouyang presented an invited talk, "Compositional Design of Fe-Si-X High Silicon Steel" at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, FL, USA.
2023 August Our paper on multi-principal element alloys combining theory and experimental "Design of refractory multi-principal-element alloys for high-temperature applications" is published in Nature NPJ Computational Materials. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-023-01095-4
2023 August Dr. Ouyang presented an invited talk, "Design of High Silicon Steel for Motors and Electronics" at the 2023 Sandia National Laboratories Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
2023 July Dr. Ouyang is the symposium co-organizer for "Refractory Metals 2024" for 2024 TMS Annual Meeting.
2023 July Dr. Ouyang hosted a SULI student Jackson Berlage coming from Gustavus Adolphus College in the summer of 2023, working on combinatory arc synthesis of Al-Ce-X alloy.
2023 April Dr. Ouyang and his group hosted a session on Saturday, April 1, 2023 for the Science Bound program in Ames lab. He demonstrated the deformation of metals and especially shape memory alloy for a total of 125 students in the 8th grade from Denison, Des Moines, Marshalltown and Osceola for the science bound program.
2023 March Dr. Ouyang is the symposium co-organizer and session chair for "Advances in Magnetic Materials" at 2023 TMS Annual Meeting.
2023 June Dr. Ouyang hosted a 50-minute demonstration or hands-on activities on metals for 8th graders for the ISU TRIO program.
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2022 August Dr. Ouyang volunteered at the Iowa State Fair, representing the Ameslab team. He introduced Ameslab’s newest technology in energy saving and renewable energy for local Iowans.
2022 August Dr. Ouyang is the Co-advisor/editor for TMS JOM special topics on Refractory Metals & Materials from 2022 to 2024.
2022 August We are awarded by US DOE EERE on an FY21 AMO Multi-Topic grant to work on Al-Ce alloys (PI: Catalin Pitu (RPI), Co-PI: Gaoyuan Ouyang (Ameslab), Co-PI: Jun Cui (ISU), Co-PI: Monica Soare (GE)) .
