7/5/2012
Dr. Clyde Briant. Photo by Corley Photography.About 50 faculty and graduate students attended the first Schaller Seminar lecture on April 12. Dr. Clyde Briant, professor and dean of engineering at Brown University in Rhode Island, discussed his experimental and modeling study of deformation in aluminum-magnesium alloys at elevated temperatures. Briant worked in the General Electric Company Research and Development Center for 18 years before joining Brown in 1994.