Director, Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program
Biography
Kevin Kit received his BS in Materials Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1990 and his MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Kit is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee. He held the position of Assistant Professor in the same department from 1996 until 2003. His research has focused on the processing-structure-property relationships of polymer blends including melt miscible thermoplastic blends and radiation-cured rubber-toughened epoxy resins. His currently funded research programs include development of natural fiber composite materials and the production and characterization of nonwoven electrospun fibers and fabrics. Kit teaches polymer science and engineering courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and has helped to develop a multidisciplinary polymer processing unit operations laboratory course at the University of Tennessee.
Research
Electrospinning, Biosource Materials, Mechanical Behavior of Polymers and Polymer Composites, Polymer Blends, Polymer Crystallization, Polymer Processing
Education
PhD, Delaware: Effect of Diffusion of Impurities on Structure Development During Crystallization of Polymer Blends
Professional Service
Kit has been a board member of the Engineering Properties & Structure Division of SPE 2004 and has been faculty advisor for the University of Tennessee student SPE chapter since 2001. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society and the Fiber Society.