Samantha Daly

Samantha (Sam) Hayes Daly is an American mechanical engineer whose research topics include the failure analysis of novel materials including shape-memory alloys and ceramic matrix composites, and the calibration of the scanning electron microscopes used in this analysis. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Education and career Daly was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, where she earned a double bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and mathematics in 2001.