Pierre C. Gehlen, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus (1982)

Office: ENGR 414B, Phone: 206.296.5539
gehlen@seattleu.edu

Dr. Gehlen received the degree of Bachelor in Engineering Physics from the University of Liege (1961) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Northwestern University in 1966. Between 1966 and 1979 he was a research scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. His main research interests were in X-ray diffraction, dislocation theory, fracture mechanics and computer simulation of atomic phenomena. He published about fifty papers in these fields. Prof. Gehlen taught and did research on interatomic potentials using neutron diffraction data at the University of Leicester. In 1974 he spent nine months at the NASA-Ames research center, researching hydrogen embitterment of steels. Dr. Gehlen then taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Tulsa, OK from 1979 to 1982. At Seattle University he teaches classes in materials science, dynamic systems and electric circuits. In his spare time he studies relativity theory and applied mathematics.