Principal Investigator
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 Professional Experience: 2017-present: Associate Professor, Arizona State University
2015-17: Sr. Technologist, Additive Manufacturing, PADT Inc. 2008-15: Packaging R&D Engineer and Manager, Intel Corporation
2003-04: Bass and singer-songwriter, The Blackbirds 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
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Tyler Smith (started Fall’20)
Failure Modeling of Additively Manufactured Metallic Cellular Materials |
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Yash Mistry (started Summer ’20) Bio-inspired Cellular Materials with Additive Manufacturing |
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Cameron Noe (started Spring ’19)
Heat Pipes with Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Mandar Shinde (started Fall ’18)
Energy absorption in cellular materials |
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Paul Paradise (started Fall ’18)
Process-Structure-Property Relationships for Thin Wall Inconel 718 Structures in Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Irving Edwin Ramirez Chavez (started Fall ’18)
Deformation and Energy Absorption in Aperiodic Cellular Materials |
MS Students
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Afsana Nizamudeen (TBD) Bio-inspired hair-like structures |
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Mikayla Johnston (MS Applied Project) Surface modification with additive manufacturing for lunar dust mitigation |
Undergraduates
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Alexander Potts [FURI]
Energy Absorption in Cellular Structures |
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Zachary Goode [FURI]
3D Printed Heat Pipes for Thermal Management |
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Sameer Naguib [Barrett Honors Thesis]
Surface texture design for lunar dust mitigation in propulsion systems |
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Andrew Sarrasin [FURI]
High Cycle Fatigue of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 |
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Nicole Van Handel [Barrett Honors Thesis] – co-advised with Prof. Shenghan Guo
Fractography of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 |
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Alumni (updated 12/2021)
- Post-Doc
- Dr. Prince Jeya Lal Lazar – LinkedIn
- MS
- Thesis (8)
- Applied Project (8)
- Undergraduates
Research Collaborators
Academia
- Prof. Clint Penick, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, at Kennesaw State University
- Prof. Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
- Dr. Christine Lee, Director, Interwoven Labs
- Dr. Cahit Ozturk, Research Technologist at the Bee Lab, Arizona State University
- Prof. Xiangfan Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University
- Prof. Enrique Cuan-Urquizo, Assistant Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Prof. Shenghan Guo, Assistant Professor, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University
- Prof. Philip Purcell, Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Industry
- Donald Godfrey, Senior Fellow, SLM Solutions, Inc.
- 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 2021
November 2019Picture credits: Kevin Steverson