I. Cevdet Noyan,

I. Cevdet Noyan

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

Cevdet Noyan has been studying the mechanical response of crystalline materials over various length scales using diffraction since 1978.

He was one of the first researchers to combine the theory of micromechanics with that of x-ray and neutron diffraction. He and his group develop x-ray and neutron characterization techniques for non-destructive analysis of structures, with applications spanning suspension bridge cables, integrated circuits, and nanostructures. Noyan and his co-workers also work on the theory of scattering, with particular emphasis on defining the information volumes from which diffraction data are measured, and quantification of the uncertainties associated with such data.

Noyan received his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1978 and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 1984. His early research work was at IBM, where he received two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for research and development of computer and packaging structures, an IBM Research Division Award for research on diffusion barriers, and 11 IBM Invention Plateaus for filed patents. He is also coauthor of the monograph, Residual Stress: Measurement by Diffraction and Interpretation (Materials Research and Engineering).

Prof. Noyan was a member of the organizing committee of the Denver X-ray Conference and co-editor of the Advances in X-Ray Analysis from 1993 through 2019. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has received the Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2006, and the Jenkins Lifetime Achievement (2015) and Hanawalt (2019) awards from the International Centre for Diffraction Data.

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience

    Columbia University, New York, NY:

    • APAM Department Chair (July 2012 - June 2018)
    • Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (2004 - Present)
    • Adjunct Professor (1985 - 2004)

    International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY:

    • Research Consultant (2004 - 2017)
    • Research Staff Member (1987 - 2004)
  • Education
    • PhD, Materials Sci. & Engineering, Northwestern University
    • BSci., Metallurgical Engineering, Middle East Technical University
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow, American Physical Society
    • Member ASM, TMS-AIME, ACA, APS, Sigma Xi, IEEE, ICDD
  • Honors & Awards
    • Hanawalt Award for rigorous physical modeling of the scattering processes from nanocrystalline materials, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2019
    • Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2015
    • Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2006
    • Two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for research and development of computer and packaging structures
    • IBM Research Division Award for research on diffusion barriers and 11 IBM Invention Plateaus for filed patents
    • Adjunct Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University, 1993