Kwek-Tze Tan

Kwek-Tze Tan is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Akron, specializing in composite materials and metamaterials. He joined the university in 2014 after working at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore.

• Education: B.Eng. (2004), M.Eng. (2006) from National University of Singapore; Ph.D. (2011) from Tokyo Metropolitan University; Post-Doc (2013) at Purdue University.
• Research Focus: Impact and fracture mechanics of composites, acoustic/elastic metamaterials, bioinspired materials, 3D printing, and Arctic temperature effects.
• Grants: Recipient of 2 multi-year U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) grants for Arctic condition composite studies.
• Labs: Leads research at the Metacomposites Lab (website: metacomposites.uakron.edu).

Scientific Awards include UA Faculty Research Committee Fellowship (2019), Firestone Fellowship (2018), LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Award (2016), JSPS Fellowship (2016), ICA-ASA Young Scientist Grant (2013), and Metamaterials Congress Travel Grant (2012).