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Office: ETRL 303A (Engineering Teaching and Research Lab Building)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phone: (509) 335-3524<\/strong>
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Sc<\/strong>hool of Mechanical and Materials Engineering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Institute of Materials Research (IMR)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Current Teaching (Spring 2026)<\/h2>\n

MSE 521 – Statistics of Microstructures<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Microstructure evolution in crystalline materials (metals, ceramics), solid mechanics, metals processing, physical metallurgy (ferrous and non-ferrous), materials characterization (microscopy and electron microscopy), texture and anisotropy, grain boundary structure, thin film and IC interconnect structure, and advanced experimental techniques.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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TexSEM Laboratories (now Gatan\/EDAX\/Ametek)<\/a><\/strong>
\nAlcoa Technical Center (now Arconic)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about me<\/h4>\n

Dave Field’s CV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Office: ETRL 303A (Engineering Teaching and Research Lab Building) Phone: (509) 335-3524 Fax: (509) 335-4662 dfield@wsu.edu   School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Institute of Materials Research (IMR) Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Current Teaching (Spring 2026) MSE 521 – Statistics of Microstructures Research Interests Microstructure evolution in crystalline materials (metals, ceramics), solid mechanics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":123,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/dfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}