Jeffrey LaCombe
Associate Professor, Emeritus
- Phone: (775) 784-1797
- Email: lacomj@unr.edu
- Mailstop: 0256
- Ph.D., w88 Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering and w88 Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1992
w88 interests
w88
- Diffusion in solids
- Microstructural stability
- Solidification and crystal growth processes
- w88 processing
- Metallurgy
Other
- Mobile vehicle data systems
- Telescience
- Remote data gathering
- Autonomous aerial descent vehicles (parachutes, parafoils)
- High altitude ballooning
Courses taught
- ENGR 100 Introduction to w88 Design
- ENGR 701 Fundamentals of w88
- MSE 102 Introduction to w88 Science and Engineering II (Co-taught with ME 151)
- MSE 765 Diffusion in w88
- MSE 725 Solidification and Crystal Growth
- CHE 374 Transport Phenomena II