Gary Pickrell
Rolls Royce Commonwealth Director of Surface Engineering
Director of Nano-Bio Materials Laboratory
Associate Director of Center for Photonics Technology, ECE
Board service
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Board of Directors
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Technical Advisory Board
Penn State Center for Sintered Materials, Industrial Advisory Board
Various corporate and consortium boards
Industrial Experience
Technical Director, Porvair Advanced Materials, Hendersonville, North Carolina
General Manager, Materials Technologies of Virginia
Manager of Glass Technology, Corning, Inc. Greenville, Ohio
Research and Development Engineer, Owens Illinois, TV Products Division, Perrysburg, Ohio
Summer Intern, USBM, Avondale, Maryland
Summer Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Patents
US Patent number 10,724,999 Thermal Spray Diagnostics, TK Blair, M Cybulski, R. Sinatra, G Pickrell, R Batra, MR Gold, issued Jul, 2020
US Patent Number 10,695,783 System Control based on acoustic signals, TK Blair, M Cybulski, G Pickrell, B Zimmermann, R Batra, MR Gold, issued June, 2020
US Patent Number 10,274,364, Analysis of component having engineered internal space for fluid flow, Blair; Taylor (Blacksburg, VA), Pickrell; Gary (Blacksburg, VA), Cybulsky; Michael (Indianapolis, IN), Sinatra; Raymond John (Indianapolis, IN), Batra; Romesh (Blacksburg, VA), issued April. 2019
US Patent Number 10,241,091 Diagnosis of thermal spray gun ignition, Cybulsky; Michael (Indianapolis, IN), Sinatra; Raymond J. (Indianapolis, IN), McIntyre; Roy Peter (Derby, GB), Blair; Taylor K. (Blacksburg, VA), Pickrell; Gary (Blacksburg, VA), Batra; Romesh (Blacksburg, VA), Hudson; Mark (Chester, GB), issued March 2019
US Patent Number 8983258 Holey Optical Fiber with Random Pattern of Holes and Method for Making Same, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, Dan Kominsky, Roger Stolen, Jeong Kim, Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, and Anbo Wang, issued March 17th, 2015
US Patent Number 8861912 Holey Optical Fiber with Random Pattern of Holes and Method for Making Same, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, Dan Kominsky, Roger Stolen, Jeong Kim, Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, and Anbo Wang, issued October 14th, 2014
US Patent Number 7632440 Porous Ceramic, Metal Porous Ceramic, Polymer and Metal Materials with Pores Created by Biological Fermentation, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, issued December 15th 2009
US Patent Number 7567742 Holey Optical Fiber with Random Pattern of Holes and Method for Making Same, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, Dan Kominsky, Roger Stolen, Jeong Kim, Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, and Anbo Wang, issued July 28th, 2009
US Patent Number 7444838 Holey Optical Fiber with Random Pattern of Holes and Method for Making Same, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, Dan Kominsky, Roger Stolen, Jeong Kim, Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, and Anbo Wang, issued November 4, 2008
US Patent Number 7157115 Porous Ceramic, Metal Porous Ceramic, Polymer and Metal Materials with Pores Created by Biological Fermentation, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, issued January 2nd, 2007
US Patent Number 6928202 Method and Apparatus for Packaging Optical Fiber Sensors for Harsh Environments, Inventors: Gary Pickrell, Yuhong Duan and Anbo Wang, issued August 9th, 2005
US Patent Number 6773825 Porous Articles and Method for Manufacturing Thereof, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell Kenneth R. Butcher, and Chi-Li Lin, issued August 10, 2004
US Patent Number 6592787 Improved Porous Articles and Method for Manufacturing Thereof, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell Kenneth R. Butcher, and Chi-Li Lin, issued July 15, 2003
US Patent Number 6235665 Porous Ceramic Articles, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell and Kenneth R. Butcher, issued May 22, 2001
US Patent Number 6210612 Method of Manufacture of Porous Ceramic Articles, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell and Kenneth R. Butcher, issued April 3, 2001
US Patent Number 5656541 Low Temperature P2O5 Oxide Diffusion Source, Inventors: James E. Rapp and Gary R. Pickrell, issued August 12, 1997
US Patent Number 5629234 High Temperature Phosphorous Oxide Diffusion Source, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell and James E. Rapp, issued May 13, 1997
US Patent Number 5350460 High Temperature Phosphorous Oxide Diffusion Source, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell and James E. Rapp, issued September 27, 1994
US Patent Number 5350461 Low Temperature Oxide Solid Diffusion Source, Inventors: Gary R. Pickrell and James E. Rapp, issued September 27, 1994
US Patent Number 4846902 Solid Diffusion Source of GD Oxide /P2O5 Compound and Method of Making Doped Silicon Wafer, Inventor: Gary R. Pickrell, issued July 11, 1989
Research Interests
- Fiber Optics and Fiber Optic Sensors
- Plasma Spray Process
- Specialty Optical Fiber Fabrication
- Ceramic Processing and Property Characterization
- Advanced Experimental Design/Advanced Process Control
- Porous Materials Fabrication
- Phase Equilibria
- Luminescence
Education
- B.S., The Ohio State University
- M.S., The Ohio State University
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Achievements
- Chair/Co-chair of more than 30 international conferences
- Organizing committee for more than 50 international conferences
- Publications: Over 250 publications including mroe than 20 books, 15 book chapters, 20 patents, 100 journal and 100 conference papers. See full listing here.
- PI on ~$10 million in externally funded research and co-PI and over $20 million
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, SPIE
- Senior Member, IEEE
- Faculty Fellow 2007-2010
- Virginia Tech Outstanding Assistant Professor, 2005
- R&D 100 Award, October 2004
Courses
- Physical Ceramics
- Advanced Physical Ceramics
- Phase Equilibria and Crystal Chemistry
- Introduction to Materials
- Photonic Materials
- Design of Experiments
- Glass & Refractories
- Elements of Materials Engineering
- Advanced Design of Experiments