People

Program Leadership | Key Faculty | Graduate Faculty

Led by the College of Engineering and College of Earth and Mineral Science, the Additive Manufacturing and Design graduate programs expand their growth through collaborations with the Smeal College of Business and the College of Arts and Architecture to capitalize on the existing strengths of the University.

Program Leadership


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Allison Beese

Director of AMD Graduate Programs
Professor

Email: amb961@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/beeseresearchgroup

Research Interests: experimental and computational micromechanics of materials, deformation and fracture, microstructural characterization, functionally graded materials

Key Faculty


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Andrea Argüelles

Assistant Professor

Email: arguelles@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/ultrasonics 

Research Interests: materials characterization, ultrasonic wave propagation, nondestructive testing


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Amrita Basak

Assistant Professor

Email: aub1526@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/basaklabpsu

Research Interests: additive manufacturing


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Mary Frecker

Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Riess Chair of Engineering

Email: mxf36@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/edog

Research Interests: design for additive manufacturing, topology optimization, adaptive structures, medical devices


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Sanjay Joshi

Professor

Email: sbj4@psu.edu

Webpage: ime.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=SBJ4

Research Interests: computational geometry for design and process planning in additive manufacturing, AM process development, manufacturing systems

 

John Mauro

Department Head and Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Email: jcm426@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/glass

Research Interests: glass science and engineering, materials modeling, design of industrial materials

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David Mazyck

Department Head

Email: dwm110@psu.edu

 


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Nicholas Meisel

Assistant Professor

Email: nam20@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/madebydesign

Research Interests: (Re)design for additive manufacturing, voxel-based design, polymer additive manufacturing, virtual reality, design education


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Vincent Meunier

Department Head of ESM, P.B. Breneman Chair, and Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Email: vfm5153@psu.edu

Webpage: https://sites.psu.edu/icmp/

Research Interests: Computational materials science, quantum materials, first-principle modeling

 

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Ling Rothrock

Interim Head, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Email: lxr28@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/hpam/

Research Interests: Human-machine Systems, Human Factors

Graduate Faculty


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Joseph Bartolai

Assistant Research Professor

Email: jib5181@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: cimp-3d.org

Research Interests: Thermoplastic polymers, lattice structures, build optimization, in-situ temperature measurement, and mechanical testing


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Saurabh Basu

Assistant Professor

Email: sxb514@psu.edu

Webpage: ime.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=sxb514

Research Interests: advanced manufacturing, mechanics, behavior of materials, additive manufacturing


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Catherine Berdanier

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Email: cgb9@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/cberdanier

Research Interests: engineering education; engineering design; DfAM


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Reid Berdanier

Assistant Research Professor

Email: rberdanier@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/rberdanier

Research Interests: instrumentation development for turbomachinery, experimental turbine and compressor aerodynamics, turbine heat transfer, compressor aeromechanics


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Sven Bilén

Director of the Doctor of Engineering in Engineering Program Professor

Email: sbilen@psu.edu

Webpage: sedtapp.psu.edu/~sbilen

Research Interests: concrete printing, electrical characterization, printed microwave circuits, 3d printing for space applications


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Jared Butler

Assistant Professor

Email: butler@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/mechanismcollective

Research Interests: compliant mechanisms, origami-based mechanisms, medical devices, space mechanisms


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Daniel Cahoy

Professor

Email: drc13@psu.edu

Webpage: directory.smeal.psu.edu/drc13

Research Interests: patents, intellectual property, sustainability, entrepreneurship


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Long-Qing Chen

Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Email: lqc3@psu.edu

Webpage: https://www.mri.psu.edu/faculty/welcome-chen-research-group-featured-works

Research Interests: computational materials science, phase-field method, phase transformations, microstructure evolution


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Larry Cheng

Dorothy Quiggle Assistant Professor

Email: huanyu.cheng@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/chenggroup

Research Interests: deformable multimodality sensors; stretchable electronics; transient sensors; advanced manufacturing

 

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David Corbin

Assistant Research Professor

Email: drc5094@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: cimp-3d.org

Research Interests: Prediction and control of part deformation, sensor/data analytics for determining the quality of AM components, process control and machine learning.


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Tarasankar DebRoy

Professor

Email: rtd1@psu.edu

Webpage: modeling.matse.psu.edu

Research Interests: mechanistic modeling; machine learning; 3d printing, welding


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Edward De Meter

Professor

Email: ecd3@psu.edu

Webpage: ime.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=ECD3

Research Interests: manufacturing processes and machines


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José Pinto Duarte

Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Affiliate Professor of Architectural Engineering; and Engineering Design Chair in Design Innovation; Director, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing

Email: jxp400@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/addconlab and arts.psu.edu/faculty/jose-pinto-duarte

Research Interests: concrete printing, functionally graded materials, design for AM, AM at Construction scale


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Timothy Eden

Head of the Material Science Division

Email: tje1@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: https://www.arl.psu.edu/offices/mmo/

Research Interests: material science, cold spray

 

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Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

Assistant Professor

Email: izg5139@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/georgakopoulossoares

Research Interests: bioinformatics, bioengineering, biomarkers, cancer, genomics


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John Gershenson

Director, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship Program

Email: jzg322@psu.edu

Webpage: hese.psu.edu

Research Interests: global development, appropriate design, social entrepreneurship, humanitarian engineering


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Reginald Hamilton

Associate Professor

Email: rfhamilton@psu.edu

Webpage: esm.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=RFH13

Research Interests: shape memory materials, constitutive behavior, experimental mechanics


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Terry Harrison

Earl P. Strong Professor of Business and Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems

Email: tharrison@psu.edu

Webpage: directory.smeal.psu.edu/hbx

Research Interests: supply chain impacts of AM


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Gregory Huff

Associate Professor

Email: ghuff@psu.edu

Webpage: hrg-lab.github.io/Huff-Research-Group

Research Interests: antennas, applied electromagnetics, additive manufacturing


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Jay Keist

Assistant Research Professor

Email: jsk25@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: www.cimp-3d.org

Research Interests: characterization, functionally graded materials, additive manufacturing


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Christopher Kube

Assistant Professor

Email: kube@psu.edu

Webpage: chriskube.com

Research Interests: nondestructive characterization, nondestructive evaluation, ultrasonics, structure-property relationships, elastodynamics


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Robert Kunz

Professor

Email: rfk102@psu.edu

Webpage: aero.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=RFK102

Research Interests: CFD, turbulence, multi-phase flow, rough wall boundary layers


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Benjamin Lear

Associate Professor

Email: bul14@psu.edu

Webpage: bul1457.wixsite.com/learlab

Research Interests: polymers; nanoparticles; light-to-heat conversion


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Jingjing Li

Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Email: jul572@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/jingjingli

Research Interests: materials processing and characterization, mechanical behavior and failure analysis, effect of microstructure on macroscopic properties


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Clifford Lissenden

Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Email: lissenden@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/ultrasonics

Research Interests: laser ultrasonics, nondestructive evaluation, ultrasonic guided waves, process monitoring


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Zi-Kui Liu

Dorothy Pate Enright Professor

Email: zxl15@psu.edu

Webpage: phases.psu.edu

Research Interests: computational materials design; thermodynamics, additive manufacturing


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Stephen Lynch

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Email: spl11@psu.edu

Webpage: me.psu.edu/psuturbine

Research Interests: heat exchangers, metal additive manufacturing, gas turbine cooling


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Guha Manogharan

Emmert H. Bashore Faculty Development Assistant Professor

Email: gum53@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/shapelab

Research Interests: AM metamaterials, binder-jetting, hybrid AM, biomedical applications and metal AM


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Jessica Menold

Associate Professor

Email: jdm5407@psu.edu

Webpage: thred.group

Research Interests: design theory, prototyping, manufacturing


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Hee Jeung Oh

Assistant Professor

Email: hjoh@psu.edu

Webpage: www.theohlab.com

Research Interests: polymers, membrane science, separations, bioseparations


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Zoubeida Ounaies

Professor and Director of LiMC2

Email: zxo100@psu.edu

Webpage: me.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=zxo100

Research Interests: responsive polymers; polymer composites; energy harvesting and conversion


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Ibrahim Ozbolat

Associate Professor

Email: ito1@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.esm.psu.edu/~ito1/

Research Interests: bioprinting, tissue engineering, biofabrication, additive manufacturing


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Darren Pagan

Assistant Professor

Email: dcp5303@psu.edu

Webpage: matse.psu.edu/directory/pagan-darren

Research Interests: engineering alloys, x-ray characterization, mechanical testing, machine learning


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Todd Palmer

Professor

Email: tap103@psu.edu

Research Interests: characterization of metallic powder feedstocks for additive manufacturing; role of interstitial gas additions; nucleation and growth of austenite; effects of post-process heat treatments on the precipitation of complex phase


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Vittal Prabhu

Professor

Email: vittal.prabhu@psu.edu

Webpage: ime.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=VXP7

Research Interests: modeling, control, and sensing

 

Hunter Rauch

Assistant Research Professor

Email: hor5062@psu.edu


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Wesley Reinhart

Assistant Professor

Email: reinhart@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/reinhartgroup/

Research Interests: machine learning, simulation, data-driven design

 

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Edward (Ted) Reutzel

Director, CIMP-3D

Email: ewr101@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: www.cimp-3d.org

Research Interests: metal additive manufacturing


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Albert Segall

Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Email: aesegall@psu.edu

Webpage: esm.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=AXS18

Research Interests: thermal shock, inverse methods, tribology


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Mala Sharma

Associate Research Professor 

Email: mxs232@arl.psu.edu 

Webpage: cimp3d.org and arl.psu.edu/offices/mmo  

Research Interests: additive manufacturing, cold spray, materials processing and characterization, corrosion


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Amir Sheikhi

Assistant Professor

Email: sheikhi@psu.edu

Webpage: www.sheikhilab.com

Research Interests: biotechnology and synthetic biology; energy and environment; interfaces and surfaces; materials and nanotechnology; separations and transport


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Parisa Shokouhi

Assistant Professor

Email: pxs990@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/ultrasonics/pshokouhi

Research Interests: ultrasonics, nondestructive evaluation, monitoring, machine learning


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Elizabeth Sikora

Associate Teaching Professor

Email: exs36@psu.edu

Research Interests: corrosion, electrochemical techniques, corrosion protection


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Judith Todd Copley

Professor

Email: jtodd@psu.edu

Research Interests: laser-materials interactions


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Benay Gürsoy Toykoç

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Email: bug61@psu.edu

Webpage: arts.psu.edu/faculty/benay-gursoy-toykoc

Research Interests: digital fabrication, computational making, material computation, biofabrication, mycelium-based materials


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Adri van Duin

Distinguished Professor

Email: acv13@psu.edu

Webpage: engr.psu.edu/adri/home.aspx

Research Interests: ReaxFF, molecular dynamics, interface chemistry


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Bryan Vogt

Professor

Email: bdv5051@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/vogt

Research Interests: plastics, sustainable processing, metrology


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Robert Voigt

Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Email: rcv2@psu.edu

Webpage: ime.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=RCV2

Research Interests: metal casting; physical metallurgy; 3d sand printing


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Qian Wang

Professor

Email: quw6@psu.edu

Webpage: me.psu.edu/qwang

Research Interests: modeling and control, LPBF, DED, large format DED


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Douglas Wolfe

Professor

Email: dew125@arl.psu.edu

Webpage: arl.psu.edu

Research Interests: ceramic, coating, additive manufacturing, refractory metal alloys


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Namiko Yamamoto

Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Email: nuy12@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.psu.edu/nyamamoto

Research Interests: multi-functional materials, hierarchical structuring, manufacturing process design


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Hui Yang

Professor

Email: huiyang@psu.edu

Webpage: csmmclab.github.io

Research Interests: sensing systems, data analytics, and artificial intelligence; network science, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos; computer simulation, system dynamics, and optimization; quality engineering and applied statistics; smart manufacturing and industry 4.0


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Richard Yetter

Professor

Email: ray8@psu.edu

Webpage: mne.psu.edu/ccl

Research Interests: combustion, energetic materials, propulsion, nanotechnology


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Michael Yukish

Associate Professor

Email: may106@psu.edu

Webpage: arl.psu.edu

Research Interests: design for manufacturing, design optimization


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Lauren Zarzar

Associate Professor

Email: ldz@psu.edu

Webpage: zarzarlab.com

Research Interests: laser writing, emulsions, active matter


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Yue Zhang

Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management

Email: yue.zhang@psu.edu

Webpage: sites.google.com/site/yuezhangfuqua

Research Interests: global inventory planning and sourcing strategies, additive manufacturing and spare parts logistics, digital supply chain

 
 

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