Office:
1121 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Mailing Address:
1509 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706

Tel: (608) 263-1678
Fax: (608) 262-8353
Email: perepezk@engr.wisc.edu

Primary Department:
Materials Science and Engineering

Education

BS (Metallurgical Engineering) 1967, Polytechnic Institute of New York.
MS (Metallurgical Engineering) 1968, Polytechnic Institute of New York.
PhD (Metallurgical and Materials Science) 1973, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Courses

MS&E 699 – Independent Study (Summer 2018)
MS&E 790 – Master’s Research or Thesis (Summer 2018)
MS&E 803 – Special Topics in Materials Science (Summer 2018)
MS&E 890 – Pre-Dissertator’s Research (Summer 2018)
MS&E 990 – Research and Thesis (Summer 2018)
MS&E 990 – Research and Thesis (Fall 2018-2019)
MS&E 890 – Pre-Dissertator’s Research (Fall 2018-2019)
MS&E 790 – Master’s Research or Thesis (Fall 2018-2019)
MS&E 699 – Independent Study (Fall 2018-2019)
MS&E 465 – Fundamentals of Heat Treatment (Fall 2018-2019)

Awards, honors, and societies

– Adjunct Processor – Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)
– William Hume-Rothery Award, TMS (2009)
– Who’s Who in Engineering
– Member of TMS, AIME, ASM, Electrochemical Society, Alpha Sigma Mu, Sigma Xi, APMI, MRS, ASEE.
– IBM-Bascom Professorship
– Principal Editor for Scripta Materialia 2003-2008
– Member of National Academy of Engineering
– Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungpreise (1996)
– Fellow of ASM-International, TMS

Research Interests

– Phase transformations
– Interface reactions/coating design
– Metastable and amorphous phases
– Kinetics
– Nucleation
– Metal powders and high temperature intermetallic alloys
– Rapid solidification
– Microgravity processing