AM Security Series: Security in Manufacturing

Please note: The Zoom webinar link will be sent to all registered participants 2 days prior to the event date.

This is the third webinar in the AM Security series that is hosted by NYU Tandon. In this panel discussion, the following research experts will be present:

Jian Yu is the current Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Team Lead at Material Division of the CCDC Army Research Laboratory. He has received a PhD in Chemical Engineering, specializing in polymer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He has been working at the Army Research Laboratory since 2008. His research interests are in protective armor materials. For the past three years, he has been leading research projects in additive manufacturing, in particular, hybrid AM, integrating multi-material and multi-AM process for army applications.

Dr. Dirk Lehmhus obtained a PhD at Bremen University for studies on optimization of aluminum foam production processes and properties. In May 2009, he changed to the University of Bremen to become managing director of its Scientific Centre ISIS (Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering) dedicated to the development of sensorial materials and sensor-equipped structures, the foundation of which he helped organize, while maintaining his association to Fraunhofer IFAM. Topics covered in this period include integration of sensors in cast as well as additively manufactured components. Since 2009, he has been regularly involved in topic and symposium coordination at the Euromat and the MS&T conference series, with a special focus on materials for transport applications and additive manufacturing. Besides, he helped initiate the International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt), and hosted it in Bremen in 2014. Dirk Lehmhus is member of TMS and DGM, the German materials science association. He is furthermore member of the Editorial Board of the OpenAccess journals “Metals” and “Materials”. His present research interests include, besides material-integrated intelligent systems themselves, cellular metals and metallic foams, specifically metal matrix syntactic foams, powder metallurgical materials including composites and additive manufacturing techniques, and metal casting technology.

Eric MacDonald, Ph.D. is a professor of electrical and computer engineering – with a joint appointment in manufacturing program and is the Friedman Chair for Manufacturing at Youngstown State University. He worked in industry for 12 years at IBM and Motorola and subsequently co-founded a start-up specializing in CAD software and the startup was acquired by a firm in Silicon Valley. Dr. MacDonald spent 2003 to 2016 at the University of Texas at El Paso as the associate director of the W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation and held faculty fellowships at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US Navy Research (SPAWAR) and was awarded a US State Department Fulbright Fellowship in South America. His research interests include 3D printed multi-functional applications and closed-loop control in additive manufacturing with instrumentation and computer vision for improved quality and yield. Recent projects include 3D printing of structures such as nano satellites with structurally-embedded electronics.

Justin Scott is the Department Head for Research, Engagement, Data, and Information at The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), where he oversees the application of data analytics to advance society initiatives and activities. He also serves as the Principal Editor for the society’s flagship member journal, JOM (2018 Impact Factor of 2.305), which features topical collections on the full breadth of TMS technical interests. Previously, Justin was a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC. There, he performed policy research and analysis in support of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense on topics including advanced manufacturing, critical materials and supply chains, and R&D investment. He obtained his PhD in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University in 2010 and received his Certified Association Executive credential in 2019.