Jie Song

• Development of high temperature alloys through physical metallurgy, thermomechanical properties evaluation and enhancement, and heat treatment
• Surface modification using laser shock peening
• Manufacturing techniques including high pressure die casting, solidification of metallic materials, additive manufacturing of plastic and metallic materials, grain refinement techniques
• Advanced microstructure characterization, transmission electron microscope (TEM) and high resolution (HR) TEM analysis
• Physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating, coating evaluation and assessment

Member, Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

Journal Reviewer

• Metallurgical and Material Transaction 
• International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 
• Journal of Computational Physics
• International Journal of Impact Engineering
• International Journal of Computational Materials
• Journal of Materials Science and Surface Engineering
• Journal of Alloys and Compounds
• Scientific Reports
• Scripta Materialia

• Purdue University Travel Grant, NADCA Die Casting Congress & Tabletop, 2012
• Scholarship for Excellent students, Tsinghua University, China (2007)
• Outstanding Graduate Award, Hefei University of Technology, China (2006)

• Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2018-2021
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2014-2018
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2010-2014
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2006-2009