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

Postdoc

Dr. Prince Jeya Lal Lazar (started Spring ’21)   Mechanics of Multi-Material Cellular Structures

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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)   Dynamic behavior and energy absorption in metallic 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

Shawn Clonts (MS Thesis)   Surface modification with additive manufacturing for lunar dust mitigation

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Athul Rajeev (MS Thesis)   On the role of node curvature in the mechanical behavior of cellular materials

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Jordan Yaple (MS Thesis)   Laser powder bed fusion of copper heat spreaders for thermal regulation

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Undergraduates

Sameer Naguib   Bio-inspired Multi-Material Cellular Structures

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Andrew Sarrasin   Laser Powder Fusion of Copper for Thermal Management Applications

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Nicole Van Handel   Measurement Science in Metal Additive Manufacturing: Density, Surface Roughness, Dimension

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Alumni (updated 05/2021)

• MS
  • Thesis
    • 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
    • Andrew Creasman (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Varun Agrawal (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Bharath Santhanam (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
• Undergraduates
  • Barrett Honors Thesis:
    • 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
• 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
• Prof. Kenan Song, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University
• Prof. Xiangfan Chen, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University

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 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