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Prof. Uma Maheswara Rao Seelam

PhD (University of Central Florida)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Room No: MM206   +91-870-2462522
uma.seelam@nitw.ac.in Edit Profile Bio Sketch

Research Areas

 Correlative Multiscale Characterization of Materials 

 Non-equilibrium Processing of Materials 

 Rare-earth Permanent Magnets 

  • Courses Handled
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  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations(MM16001)
  • Materials Engineering(MM235)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Metallography Laboratory(MM205)
  • Phase Transformations in Materials(MM5201)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations Laboratory(MM16007)
  • Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations(MM1H03)
  • Universal Human Values(IC202)
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques(MM470)
  • Electronic and Magnetic Materials(MM254)
  • Phase Transformations in Materials Laboratory(MM5203)
  • Electronic and Magnetic Materials(MM5263)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6783-5780
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vIMDyygAAAAJ&hl=en


  • Mechanism of grain boundary diffusion process of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets using terbium heptoxide (Tb4O7) diffusion source, By Akhil P.S., H. Nakamura, Uma Maheswara Rao Seelam, ScienceDirect, Journal of Rare Earths, vol., pp., 2025
  • Mechanical and magnetic properties of phase separated Cu50Fe50 (at%) alloys synthesized by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering, By B.Santhi, D. ArvindhaBabu and Uma Maheswara RaoSeelam, Elsevier , J. Alloys and Compounds, vol.997, pp.174890, 2024
  • Faceted shell structure in grain boundary diffusion-processed sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets, By U. M.R. Seelam, T. Ohkubo, T. Abe, S. Hirosawa and K. Hono, ScienceDirect, J. Alloys and Compounds, vol.617, pp.884-892 , 2014
  • Coercivity of the Nd–Fe–B hot-deformed magnets diffusion-processed with low melting temperature glass forming alloys, By U.M.R. Seelam, Lihua Liu, T. Akiya, H. Sepehri-Amin, T. Ohkubo, N. Sakuma, M. Yano, A. Kato and K. Hono, ScienceDirect, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. , vol.412 , pp.234-242, 2016
  • Structural Characterization of Sputter-deposited SS304+10 wt pct Al Coatings, By Uma M.R. Seelam, Suryanarayana, H. Heinrich, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono and N.S. Cheruvu, Springer, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, vol.43, pp.2945-2954, 2012
  • Mechanically-Induced FCC Phase Formation in Nanocrystalline Hafnium, By U. M.R. Seelam and C. Suryanarayana, AIP, J. Appl. Phys, vol.105, pp.063524 (1-8), 2009
  • Is there a hcp → fcc allotropic transformation in mechanically milled Group IV B elements?, By Uma M.R. Seelam, G. Barkhordarian and C. Suryanarayana, Springer, J. Mater. Res., vol.24, pp.3454-3461, 2009
  • On the temperature dependent magnetic properties of as-spun Mn-Bi ribbons, By S. Kavita, U.M.R. Seelam, D. Prabhu and R. Gopalan, ScienceDirect, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., vol.377, pp.485-489, 2015
  • Synthesis of nanocrystalline ZnSe by mechanical alloying, By C. Suryanarayana, Ahmed A. Al‑Joubori, Furkan Türker, U.M.R. Seelam, Springer, J. Mater. Res., vol.38, pp.4261-4271, 2023
  • Mechanical Properties of Cu70Fe30 (at%) Bulk Metastable Alloys Prepared by Mechanical Alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering, By Santhi Battu, Arvindha Babu D, Vajinder Singh, Deepak Kumar, and Uma Maheswara Rao Seelam, Wiley, Adv. Eng. Mater., vol.2401579, pp.1-12, 2025

Production of rare earth permanent magnets from spent magnets and primary rare earth oxides

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor Government of India
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 7524000
  • Status Ongoing

High coercivity Nd-Fe-B magnets

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST-SERB CRG
  • Duration 42 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2980000
  • Status Completed


Mr. Akhil PS

  • Area of Research: Grain boundary diffusion process of Nd-Fe-B magnets

Mrs. B. Santhi

  • Area of Research: Synthesis of high strength Cu-Fe alloys by non-equilibrium processing
  • 2009-10 University Award for Excellence, UCF
  • AMPAC Fellowship, UCF, USA
  • First Prize for oral presentation in IIT-KGP
  • J.N. Tata Endowment, Tata Trust, India
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship (ESICMM), Japan
  • Member, Department Purchase Committee (DPC) (Continuing from November, 2024)
  • Member, Department Research Committee (DRC) (Continuing from January, 2024)
  • Department Coordinator, NBA Accreditation (Continuing from July, 2023)
  • Faculty Advisor (Continuing from December, 2021)
  • Faculty-in-charge, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), NIT Warangal (Continuing from July, 2018)
  • Member, Department Academic Committee (DAC) - UG (Continuing from July, 2018)