Research and Instructional Strategies for Engineering Retention

Claudia Rawn is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is also the Director of the Center for Materials Processing. Prior to joining the University of Tennessee full time she was a Senior Research Staff Member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Joint Faculty Member in the University of Tennessee’s Materials Science and Engineering Department. She received her B.Sc. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Materials Engineering, her M.Sc. from George Mason University in Chemistry, and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Materials Science and Engineering. Before starting her graduate students she worked in the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a Materials Research Engineer. After completing her Ph.D. she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ceramics Department of the ”Jozef Stefan” Institute, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. Rawn joined the Materials Science and Technology Division at ORNL in 1997 with the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Postdoctoral Fellowship program.