Palmour, Hayne

Hayne Palmour, North Carolina State University Professor Emeritus of Ceramic Engineering, attended the Georgia School of Technology and received a B.S. in the Technology of Ceramic Engineering in 1948, and in 1950 earned an M.S. in the Technology of Ceramic Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1961. Palmour held numerous positions in industry before becoming an instructor of ceramic engineering with the Ceramic Engineering Department at North Carolina State College in 1958. In 1961 he became a Research Engineer with the N.C. State College Department of Engineering and in 1965 he was made a Research Professor with the Department of Engineering Research, North Carolina State Univesity, and a Professor of Ceramic Engineering, Department of Materials Engineering, in 1981. In 1985 Palmour traveled to Eastern Europe as a Fulbright Scholar.

During his 37 years at North Carolina State University, Palmour was active as a researcher, educator, advisor, administrator, and as a Faculty Senator. Palmour contributed to North Carolina State's development of ceramics engineering education and of advanced industrial applications of ceramics technology. Ceramics products are used in semiconductors, abrasives, computers, electrical equipment, and in the food and drug industry. Aerospace manufacturing utilizes ceramic components for jet engines, rocket nozzles, launching pads, and heat shields. All nuclear power reactors use ceramics materials as fuel elements. Advanced ceramics are also important as shielding and control materials used in nuclear reactors, and are used in the containment of nuclear waste.

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