Faculty Profile

E-mail address: waryoba@magnet.fsu.edu
B315 CEB, (850) 410-6430

Dr. Daudi Waryoba, received his PhD degree in Mechanical and Material Engineering from Florida State University in 2003. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2008. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Waryoba worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), spearheading various researches on severe plastic deformation and thermo mechanical processing of copper, niobium, and aluminum alloys. He also worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2006 and 2007, where he taught courses such as Materials Selection in Design and Introduction to Mechanical Engineering. Dr Waryoba is currently the Coordinator of the Senior Capstone Design Projects. His research interests include structure-property-performance relationships; mechanisms governing deformation, recrystallization and grain growth; grain boundary structure, texture and microtexture of micro- and nano-structured materials; and polymer-stabilized nano-particle catalysts for fuel cells.

• Waryoba, D.R., Kalu, P.N., and Crooks, R., Grain-boundary structure of oxygen-free high-conductivity (OFHC) copper subjected to severe plastic deformation and annealing, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 494 (2008) 47-51.
• Kalu, E.E., Ramos, K., Waryoba, D., and Kalu, P.N., Polymer-Stabilized PdRuSe Nanoparticles for Oxygen Electrolysis, ECS Trans. 11 (2007), 261.
• Cui, B.Z., Han, K., Xin, Y., Waryoba, D.R., and Mbaruku, A.L., Highly textured and twinned Cu films fabricated by pulsed electrodeposition, Acta Mater 55 (2007) 4429-4438.
• Kalu, P.N. and Waryoba, D.R., A JMAK-microhardness model for quantifying the kinetics of restoration mechanisms in inhomogeneous microstructure, Mater. Sci. Eng. A464 (2007), 68-75.
• Kalu, P.N. and Waryoba, D.R., Texture and Microstructure Variation in Severe Plastic Deformed OFHC Cu Wires, Mater. Sci. Forum 550 (2007), 509-514.
• Waryoba, D.R. and Kalu, P.N., Texture development in oxygen free high conductivity copper deformed by equal channel angular extrusion, Scanning, 28 (2), 121 (2006)