People

Principal Investigator

Dhruv-Bhate

Dhruv Bhate (ASU Bio Page)
– Associate Professor, The Polytechnic School,
– Affiliate Faculty, The Biomimicry Center,
– Graduate Faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy

Brief CV
Industry Experience:
2015-17: Sr. Technologist (Additive Manufacturing), PADT Inc.
2008-15: Packaging R&D Engineer and Manager, Intel Corporation
2000-01: Engineering Co-Op, Tata Motors
Education:
2008: PhD (Fatigue Modeling), Purdue University
2003: MS (MEMS Adhesion Modeling), University of Colorado at Boulder
2001: BS (Mechanical Engineering), College of Engineering, Pune

PhD Students

Tyler Smith (started Fall’20)

Failure modeling of Additively Manufactured cellular materials

Yash Mistry (started Summer ’20)

Bio-inspired cellular materials with Additive Manufacturing

Cameron Noe (started Spring ’19)

Heat Pipes with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Mandar Shinde (started Fall ’18)

Dynamic behavior and energy absorption in metallic cellular materials

Paul Paradise (started Fall ’18)

Process-Structure-Property Relationships for Thin Wall Inconel 718 Structures in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Irving Edwin Ramirez Chavez (started Fall ’18)

Deformation and Energy Absorption in Aperiodic Cellular Materials

MS Students

Athul Rajeev (MS Thesis)

On the role of node curvature in the mechanical behavior of cellular materials

Samuel Temes (MS Thesis)

High Temperature Mechanical Behavior of Inconel 718 thin walls with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Anushree Saxena (MS Thesis)

Fatigue of Inconel 718 thin walls with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Rajeshree Varma (MS Thesis)

Multi-material design and additive manufacturing

Jordan Yaple (MS Thesis)

Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Surface Roughness

Undergraduates

Jaimee

Jaimee Andreotti (Honors Thesis)

3D Print-in-place Self Locking Hinges

ShawnClonts

Shawn Clonts

Mechanical Behavior of Thin Wall Inconel 718

Austin

Austin Suder

Mechanical Behavior of Thin Wall Inconel 718

Daniel Anderson

Stochasticity in Cellular Materials

DanielBruce

Daniel Bruce

Measurement Science in Metal Additive Manufacturing: Density, Section Area & Surface Roughness

Alumni (updated 05/2020)

MS
- Thesis
  - Derek Goss (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
  - Dhiraj Patil (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
  - Raghav Sharma (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn – started PhD in Spring 2020 at University of Pittsburgh
- Applied Project
  - Varun Agrawal (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
  - Bharath Santhanam (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn – joined Honda R&D Americas (Ohio)
Undergraduates
- Barrett Honors Thesis:
  - Thao Le (M.S. ’18) – LinkedIn – joined Intel Corporation (Arizona)
  - Ziyad Salti (B.S ’18) – LinkedIn – joined Universal Laser Systems (Arizona)
  - Trevor Eppley (B.S. ’18) – LinkedIn – joined W.L. Gore and Associates (Arizona)
- Quoc Lam (B.S. ’18) – LinkedIn

Research Collaborators

Academia

Prof. Clint Penick, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, at Kennesaw State University
Prof. Nikhilesh Chawla, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Arizona State University
Prof. Xiangfan Chen, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University
Prof. Christine Lee, Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Dr. Cahit Ozturk, Research Technologist at the Bee Lab, Arizona State University

Industry

Donald Godfrey, Engineering Fellow, Honeywell Aerospace
Rey Chu, Director at Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Alex Grishin, Consulting Engineer at Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies, Inc.
Magnus Ahlfors, Applications Engineer at Quintus Technologies, Inc.
Peter Hushek, President and CEO, Phoenix Heat Treating, Inc.

Group Photos

November 2019 Group_2019 (left to right): Yash Mistry, Derek Goss, Daniel Bruce, Austin Suder, Dhruv Bhate, Mandar Shinde, Dhiraj Patil, Irving Ramirez Chavez, Daniel Anderson, Paul Paradise, Varun Agrawal, Cameron Noe. Picture credits: Kevin Steverson