Ceramic Engineering Materials

Advanced ceramics and traditional ceramics are the main categories of ceramic materials.

Ceramic engineering materials.

Ceramics is the making of things out of ceramic materials. These materials are used because they possess a range of properties that are attractive for particular applications. Ceramics are typically hard and chemically non reactive and can be formed or densified with heat. The department honors this long tradition by maintaining high profile research.

A ceramic is a material that is neither metallic nor organic. The ohio state university was home to the first ceramic engineering department founded in 1894 by edward orton jr. It may be crystalline glassy or both crystalline and glassy. Orton was one of the founders of the american ceramic society located in westerville ohio close to the ohio state campus.

Ceramic engineering like many sciences evolved from a different discipline by today s standards. Ceramic materials can be identified by their general properties like high hardness brittleness chemical stability and low thermal conductivity. The ceramics department has a long history in the field of ceramics. The ceramic engineering program prepares graduates for careers as engineers in the ceramic industry and related materials fields.

Engineering ceramics such as silicon nitride silicon carbide and a large number of oxides are used in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive and biomedical to electronics. These material properties are utilized to produce number of commercial and domestic products such as pottery bricks advanced functional items etc.