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
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

Cameron Noe (started Spring ’19) Thesis topic under discussion

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Mandar Shinde (started Fall ’18) Fatigue of Additively Manufactured Thin Wall Inconel 718 in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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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 in Aperiodic Cellular Materials

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MS Students

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Rajeshree Varma Topic under discussion

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Gaurav Singh Parihar Surface Roughness in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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Derek Goss (MS Thesis) Biomimetic Cellular Materials Design

Yash Mistry (MS Thesis) Development of a Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing Platform

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Raghav Sharma (MS Thesis) Cellular Material Selection and Optimization for Mechanical Performance

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Dhiraj Patil (MS Thesis) Increasing Layer Thickness in Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Inconel 718

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Undergraduates

Daniel Bruce Measurement Capability Analysis for Porosity in Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Daniel Anderson Stochasticity in Cellular Materials

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Violet Konopka (co-advised with Prof. Clint Penick) Biomimetic Cellular Materials Design: A study of insect nests

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Alumni (updated 03/2019)

• MS
  • Bharath Santhanam (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn – currently at Honda R&D Americas (Ohio)
  • Thao Le (M.S. ’18) – Barrett Honors Thesis – LinkedIn – currently at Intel Corporation (Arizona)
  • Hamdan Peringattuthodi (M.S. ’17) LinkedIn – currently at Hilal Technologies (Doha, Qatar)
• Undergraduates
  • Quoc Lam (B.S. ’18) LinkedIn
  • Ziyad Salti (B.S ’18) – Barrett Honors Thesis – LinkedIn – currently at Universal Laser Systems (Arizona)
  • Trevor Eppley (B.S. ’18) – Barrett Honors Thesis – LinkedIn – currently at W.L. Gore and Associates (Arizona)

Research Collaborators

Academia

• Prof. Clint Penick, Assistant Research Professor at the Biomimicry Center, 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.