People

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

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

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MS Students

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

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Undergraduates

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)
    • Athul Rajeev (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Jordan Yaple (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Samuel Temes (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Anushree Saxena (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Rajeshree Varma (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Derek Goss (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Dhiraj Patil (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
    • Raghav Sharma (M.S. ’19) –  LinkedIn
  • Applied Project (8)
    • Kevin White (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Shawn Clonts (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Sean Lederer (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Antony Romero (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Andrew Creasman (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Yash Mistry (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Varun Agrawal (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Bharath Santhanam (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
• Undergraduates
  • Barrett Honors Thesis (5)
    • Jaime Andreotti (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Andrew Fechter (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Thao Le (M.S. ’18) –  LinkedIn
    • Ziyad Salti (B.S ’18) – LinkedIn
    • Trevor Eppley (B.S. ’18) –  LinkedIn
  • Austin Suder (B.S. ’23) – LinkedIn
  • Daniel Anderson (B.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
  • Daniel Bruce (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
  • 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, 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