Linda Jones
Dr, Jones is the Director and Chair of the Picker Engineering Program and the Rosemary Bradford Hewlett Professor of Engineering at Smith College. She is deeply committed to the advancement of women and minorities in science, technology and engineering. Professor Jones has spent the last 14 years at Alfred University in the College of Ceramics in which she rose to the rank of Professor of Ceramic Engineering. Her expertise is in the synthesis, structure and degradation of structural carbon and carbides used in aerospace and other severe environment applications. The work in her laboratory on high temperature oxidation and degradation has been extended to the measurement of environmental effluents produced via manufacturing processes. She has an interest in the manufacturing of glass. She has funded research with both the National Science Foundation’s Center for Glass Research and the Environmental Protection Agency along with Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Carbon/Carbide Materials Branch. She has 81 publications in these areas and has given over 100 national and international presentations. She has been named the American Carbon Society’s Graffin Lecturer. She serves on the American Carbon Society’s executive board. She is actively involved in the European and Asian Carbon Society. She is the Education Secretary for the American Ceramic Society’s Glass Division and is the President of the Ceramic Education Council. She has edited one book and received 9 Teaching Excellence Awards including the State University of New York’s Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition, Jones was recognized by the State of New York as a SUNY Research Scholar for her work on high temperature materials.