Rate My Professor Paul Fuierer

Paul Fuierer, PhD, is Professor and Department Chair of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1984, participated as a foreign exchange student in Ceramic Science at the University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1983, and received a Ph.D. in Solid State Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1991. Fuierer teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including Introduction to Materials Engineering, Introduction to Ceramic Engineering, Magnetic Materials, Optical Materials, Physics of Metals and Ceramics, Nonlinear Dielectric Ceramics, Electronic Materials, Crystal Chemistry and Crystal Physics, and associated laboratories.

His research centers on functional ceramics, encompassing nanocrystalline ceramics for dye-sensitized solar cells, new ion-conducting ceramics for fuel cell and gas sensor electrolytes, textured bulk and thin film ceramics, and layered perovskites as interphases in high-temperature ceramic composites. Fuierer has pioneered applications of dry aerosol deposition for dense ceramic coatings in microwave dielectrics, sensors, and protective layers from extraterrestrial regolith simulants. He received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 1997 and was an Eastman Kodak Fellow. Notable publications include "Materials for High Temperature Acoustic and Vibration Sensors: A Review" (Applied Acoustics, 1994), "An overview of the aerosol deposition method: Process fundamentals and new trends in materials applications" (Journal of Ceramic Science and Technology, 2015), "Anisotropic thermal conductivity of the Aurivillius phase, bismuth titanate (Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂)" (Applied Physics Letters, 2008), "La₂Ti₂O₇ Ceramics" (Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1991), and "Controlling the Size and Morphology of TiO₂ Powder by Molten and Solid Salt Synthesis" (Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2008). Fuierer co-invented the aerosol method for coating materials (US Patent 10,792,703 B2). His contributions advance ceramic processing for energy conversion, storage, sensing, and electronics.