Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

About David E. LaughlinDavid R. Gaskell

David R. Gaskell earned a BSc in metallurgy and technical chemistry at the University of Glasgow Scotland and a PhD at McMaster University Hamilton Ontario Canada. Dr. Gaskells first faculty position was at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught from 1967 to 1982 in metallurgy and materials science. In 1982 he was recruited at the rank of professor by Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana where he taught until his death in 2013. During Dr. Gaskells career he served as a visiting professor at the National Research Council of Canada Atlantic Regional Laboratory Halifax Nova Scotia (19751976) and as a visiting professor at the G. C. Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extraction Metallurgy in the Department of Chemical Engineering University of Melbourne Australia (1995). He also held a position during his sabbatical in Australia as a visiting scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Clayton Victoria. Dr. Gaskell authored the textbooks Introduction to Metallurgical Thermodynamics Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials and Introduction to Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering.David E. Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He also had a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He was the principal editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions from 1987 to 2016. David is a graduate of Drexel University Philadelphia Pennsylvania (1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts (1973). He is a fellow of the Minerals Metals and Materials Society (TMS) an honorary member of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and a fellow of ASM International. He is also the recipient of several CMU awards for teaching and research excellence and was named a distinguished scientist of the TMS Electronic Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division. He presented the 2017 ASM Campbell Memorial Lecture and is the recipient of the 2025 ASM International J. W. Gibbs Award. He has authored more than 500 technical publications in the field of phase transformations physical metallurgy and magnetic materials; has been awarded 12 patents; and has edited or coedited seven other books including the fifth and sixth editions of Physical Metallurgy.