
Associate Teaching Professor & Undergraduate Program Director
Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: | 848-445-4513 |
Fax: | 732-445-2873 |
Email: | eka@soe.rutgers.edu |
Office: | CCR-114 |
Link to Dr. Akdogan's Google Scholar Page
Useful Links for Prospective Undergraduates:
- What is Materials Science & Engineering?
- Why Materials Science & Engineering is Awesome?
- What do Materials Scientists & Engineers do?
Teaching, academic, and professional service
Dr. Akdogan is a multiple-award-winning teacher-scholar who has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses covering a diverse range of topics including mechanical properties of materials, chemical thermodynamics of materials, microprocessing of materials, crystal chemistry of engineering materials, solid-state theory of engineering materials, EMO properties of materials, physical metallurgy, and phase transformations.
Dr. Akdogan is a course creator, academic administrator, recruiter, public speaker, and a mentor to undergraduate in MSE and the School of Engineering. Currently, he is serving as the director of the Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate program. He served or is serving as faculty mentor to Rutgers programs such as the McNair, JJ Slade, Engineering Honors Academy.
Dr. Akdogan is a full member of the MSE graduate program. He has a proven track record in government-funded research projects, with >2900 citations, H-index: 26, i10-index: 44 on >70 articles that are published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He delivered over 125 presentations at national and international symposia (1/4 invited contribution). He is the co-inventor on 2 US patents.
Dr. Akdoğan is a senior member of IEEE Class of 2005 and a member of the IEEE-UFFC Society’s Ferroelectrics Committee, serving as its Associate Publications Chair since January 2023. Previously, he served as the Education Committee Chair of IEEE-UFFC Society (2004-2008) and the Travel and Local Arrangements Chair of the 2007 IEEE-UFFC Ultrasonics Meeting in New York City. He was the Co-Organizer & Session Chair of the Nanomaterials Symposium at ISOPE 2010 in Beijing, China, and ISOPE 2011 in Maui, HI, USA. He was the Executive Committee Chair of Nano 2012 in Rhodes, Greece. He was a Scientific Committee Member of the International Metallurgy and Materials Congress (IMMC'2020), Istanbul, Türkiye. He is also a member of MRS, Sigma Xi, ACerS, and IEEE. He was the Co-Director and Co-PI of the Nano-structured Materials Laboratory at Rutgers University and the Lead Experimenter at the X17-B1 beamline at NSLS-I (2008-2014). He is affiliated with NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Labs (2014-to date). He serves as a peer reviewer to prestigious archival journals such as Adv. Materials, Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Appl. Phys., ACS Nano, Acta Mat., Physics B: Cond. Mat., JMR, JACerS, Trans. IEEE-UFFC, Materials Today, J. of Phys. C: Cond. Mat., J. of Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Phys. Rev. B.
Teaching Assignments
Professor Akdoğan's teaching responsibilities for the 2023-2024 academic year are listed below. The
numbers within parentheses are the course credits. The total teaching credits per AY are 16.
Fall 2023
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01
Physical Metallurgy (3), 14:635:362
Fall 2022
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01 and 02
Physical Metallurgy (3), 14:635:362
Spring 2022
Thermodynamics of Materials (4), 14:635:206
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01
Theory of Solid State Materials (3), 16:635:503
Fall 2021
Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering (3), 14:635:203 (In person on Busch
Campus; Akdogan & Klein)
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Physical Metallurgy (3), 14:635:362 (In person on Busch Campus)
Spring 2021
Thermodynamics of Materials (4), 14:635:206 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Theory of Solid State Materials (3), 16:635:503 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Fall 2020
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Physical Metallurgy (3), 14:635:362 (Synchronous on RU Webex)
Spring 2020
Thermodynamics of Materials (4), 14:635:206
Mechanical Properties of Materials (3), 14:635:407:01
Theory of Solid State Materials (3), 16:635:503