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Curriculum Reform Workshop
Research One Week 2009
Advisory Board 2009
Dr. Sagüés – Joint Appointment
In addition to his recent Joint Appointment
at the Department of Chemical
and Biomedical Engineering Dr. Alberto A.
Sagüés, Distinguished University Professor
at the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of South
Florida. Previously he held positions at the
Kentucky Center for Energy
Research of the University of
Kentucky, Argonne National
Laboratory, Juelich Nuclear
Research Center in Germany
and Columbia University. He
also was appointed by President
Clinton as a Member of
the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical
Review Board from 1997-
2002. He is a Member of the
Editorial Board, Corrosion
Journal. Dr. Sagüés received his Ph.D. in
Metallurgy from Case Western Reserve
University and his Licentiate in Physics
from National University of Rosario, Argentina,
and is a Registered Professional
Engineer in Florida. His areas of expertise
are Corrosion of Engineering Materials,
Electrochemical Assessment, Concrete, Materials
for Infrastructure, Materials for Energy
Systems, Durability Forecasting,
Physical Metallurgy and Nuclear Waste Disposal.
His current research uses electrochemical
measurements such as
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
(EIS) for nondestructive evaluation of corrosion
rates in systems that cannot be accessed
for direct observation, as is the case
of steel embedded in concrete. Dr. Sagüés
uses EIS also for quantifying the surface of
novel nanoporous semiconductors that
find application in energy producing and
sensing technologies. His experimental
work is supplemented
by the development of computational
models to elucidate
mechanisms responsible for surface
reactions, and also for performance
forecasting to include
economic optimization models
that drive the selection of alternative
materials of construction.
Previous research by Dr.
Sagüés addressed the performance
of engineering alloys in advanced
high temperature coal usage technologies,
mechanisms of intergranular attack of alloys
in hydrocarbon processing and in
breeder as well as conceptual fusion nuclear
reactors, and solute atom interactions
in refractory metal alloys. During his service
at the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review
Board he evaluated the technical basis for
the Department of Energy's research on
containment of high level nuclear waste,
an application requiring corrosion resistance
over extremely long service periods.