JamesF. Shackelford has BS and MS degrees in Ceramic Engineeringfrom the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Materials Science andEngineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Following apostdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University in Canada, he joined theUniversity of California, Davis, where he is currently Distinguished ProfessorEmeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. For manyyears, he served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Collegeof Engineering and later as the Director of the University Honors Program thatserves students from a wide spectrum of majors. Dr. Shackelford also served asAssociate Director for Education for the National Science Foundation(NSF)-funded Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST) and asFaculty Assistant to the Director of the McClellan Nuclear Research Center(MNRC) of UC Davis. He teaches and conducts research in the structural characterizationand processing of materials, focusing on glasses and biomaterials. His currentfocus in teaching is doing so through online technologies. A member of theAmerican Ceramic Society and ASM International, he was named a Fellow of theAmerican Ceramic Society in 1992, was named a Fellow of ASM International in2011, and received the Outstanding Educator Award of the American CeramicSociety in 1996 and the Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award fromASM International in 2019. In 2003, he received a Distinguished Teaching Awardfrom the Academic Senate of the University of California, Davis. In 2012, hereceived the Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Engineering at UCDavis, and, in 2014, received an Outstanding Service Award from UC DavisExtension. In 2016, Professor Shackelford received the Inaugural Award forOutstanding Contributions to Materials Education at the North AmericanMaterials Education Symposium (NAMES) held at the University of California,Berkeley. He has published over 150 archived papers and books including Introductionto Materials Science for Engineers now in its 9th Edition and whichhas been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Portuguese, and Spanish.