{"id":1773,"date":"2016-11-30T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/?page_id=1773"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:07:16","slug":"john-mecholsky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/people-2\/coe\/john-mecholsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Mecholsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"142\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2016\/11\/John-Mecholsky.jpg\" alt=\"john-mecholsky\" class=\"wp-image-1775\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><b>Professor, Materials Science and Engineering<\/b><b><br><\/b>PhD,&nbsp;Catholic University of America<strong><br><\/strong>Materials Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mse.ufl.edu\/\">Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jack Mecholsky is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. &nbsp;The Mecholsky research group generally consists of 6-8 Ph.D. students, 1-2 Master&#8217;s student, and 1-2 undergraduates. &nbsp;Dr. Mecholsky is associated with the Dental Biomaterials Program, Biomedical Engineering, and the Veterinary College. &nbsp;His research focuses on biomaterials, fractal analysis, fractography and the application of fracture mechanics to the failure analysis of advanced ceramics and composites. &nbsp;Since 1990, there have been 20 Ph.D. and 34 Master&#8217;s candidates graduate from this group with Dr. Mecholsky as principal advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list ul1\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mecholsky.mse.ufl.edu\/publications\/\">John Mecholsky&#8217;s Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homepage:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mecholsky.mse.ufl.edu\/\">John Mecholsky&#8217;s Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor, Materials Science and EngineeringPhD,&nbsp;Catholic University of AmericaMaterials Science Department of Materials Science and Engineering Dr. Jack Mecholsky is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. &nbsp;The Mecholsky research group generally consists of 6-8 Ph.D. students, 1-2 Master&#8217;s student, and 1-2 undergraduates. &nbsp;Dr. Mecholsky is associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"parent":1003,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773\/revisions\/13249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}