This workshop is sponsored by the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division and the TMS Powder Materials Committee.

Please note: TMS workshops will be held in the Crowne Plaza Hotel—TMS Headquarters Hotel for MS&T15. MS&T15 registration, exhibit, and technical sessions will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Scope
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has become popular in the last few years, although seminal developments took place 25-30 years ago. The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with current AM processes; current AM practices for metals, polymers, and ceramics; modeling of AM processes, microstructural evolution, and service properties; and current challenges and research opportunities. This course is based on the successful workshop held at the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in March 2015 and the webinar series held during May 2015.

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for people in the materials community already familiar with AM processes who want to learn more; academics and researchers will also benefit from discussions about current challenges to the full adoption of AM.

Workshop Outline

David L. Bourell is the Temple Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently director of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication. Bourell’s areas of research include particulate processing with emphasis on sintering kinetics and densification, and materials issues associated with laser sintering (LS). He holds nine primary patents dealing with materials innovations in LS dating back to 1990, and has published more than 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Bourell is a leading expert in advanced materials for LS, having worked in this area since 1988. He was the lead author on the original materials patent for LS technology. Issuing in 1990, this patent has been cited by 150 other patents. Bourell is a Fellow of ASM International and TMS, and a lifetime member of TMS. In 2009, he received the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award.

Sudarsanam Suresh Babu holds the University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT/ORNL) Governor’s Chair in Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and serves in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering. Babu has a joint professorship with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. As a governor's chair, he leads basic and applied research in a wide range of additive and other advanced manufacturing processes, including product design implications in collaboration with industry, faculty, and students at UT as well as with researchers at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL. Babu has published more than 150 journal papers and numerous conference proceedings.

Jack Beuth is professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Beuth received his Ph.D. in engineering sciences from Harvard University in 1992 and has been on the CMU faculty since that time. Beuth’s research is in the disciplines of solid mechanics, heat transfer, and manufacturing, with over 75 publications across the areas of additive manufacturing, interfacial mechanics, thin film mechanics and fracture mechanics. His current research includes modeling of additive manufacturing (AM) processes, the study of micro-scale strength size effects in MEMS materials, and research in education. In 2000, he was awarded George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Development Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at CMU. In 2005, Beuth was co-recipient of the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award. In 2009, he received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award from the CMU College of Engineering.

James W. Sears is senior mechanical engineer at GE Global Research Center—Additive Manufacturing Laboratory. Prior roles include director of the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, adjunct professor for the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department, professor for biomedical engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and executive director of the Quad Cities Manufacturing Laboratory, a nonprofit (501c3) research and development company embedded within the Rock Island Arsenal—Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center. His research interests include additive manufacturing, rapid solidification processing, powder metallurgy, plasma and laser processing, and spray deposition and fabrication with nanoparticles. Sears has written more than 80 published papers and holds three U.S. patents. He is a past TMS board member and past chair of the TMS Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division. In 2014, Sears received the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Service Award.

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