The following individuals have been involved in stringently curating programming and organizing the TMS Specialty Congress 2024.
Glenn Daehn, The Ohio State University
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Glenn Daehn is the Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University and Director of the new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center HAMMER – Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing Moving from Evolution to Revolution. HIs focus of his work spans from process innovation in creating new manufacturing processes, to providing authentic content and professional development for K-12 STEM teachers, to advancing manufacturing policy with a focus on the role of the 21st-century land grant university. His long-term research has been in impulse-based manufacturing processes for the joining, shaping, and cutting of material. Daehn is also active in several manufacturing initiatives, playing a key role in establishing the Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Manufacturing USA institute, the Ohio State Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence, and the Ohio Manufacturing Institute. He received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.
Frank Delrio, Sandia National Laboratories
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Frank W. DelRio is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Materials Mechanics and Tribology Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to this position, he was a Group Leader for the Fatigue and Fracture Group at National Institute of Standards and Technology. During his tenure at the two different national laboratories, he has been a practicing experimentalist in nanomechanics and nanotribology, with a focus on the development and use of new methods in atomic force microscopy and instrumented indentation for small-scale mechanical testing in extreme environments. Altogether, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Science Advances, PNAS, Nano Letters, and Energy & Environmental Science. He is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the ASME Orr Early Career Award, Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award, SEM A.J. Durelli Award, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is also the recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship; during his tenure in Germany, he collaborated with staff scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM on high-throughput fracture testing and predictive modeling of structural materials for a hydrogen economy.
Adam Kopper, Mercury Marine
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Adam Kopper has been with Mercury Marine, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, for 16 years and is a technical specialist in the Manufacturing Foundry Operations group. His work in the foundry focuses on casting program management, aluminum casting evaluation, new technology assessments, alloy development, and continuous improvement. Prior to Mercury, Kopper worked in the automotive casting supply base at CMI International and INTERMET over a span of eight years.
Kopper has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); both in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at WPI researching the application of machine learning to manufacturing process data in high-pressure die-casting.
Kopper was honored with the 2020 William Frishmuth Foundry Person of the Year Award by the AFS Aluminum and Light Metals Division. His casting development research has been published by SAE, NADCA, AFS, and TMS.
Aeriel D.M. Leonard, The Ohio State University
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Aeriel D.M. Leonard joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University as an assistant professor upon completing an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020 at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRC) in Washington D.C. While at NRC, she used advanced characterization techniques, such as x-ray computed tomography and high energy diffraction microscopy, to understand damage and texture evolution during in-situ loading in additive manufactured materials She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Shas led and worked on many teams aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering, including developing and implementing a leadership camp for female engineering students in Monrovia, Liberia. She is the chair of the Fourth Summit on Diversity in Minerals, Metals, and Materials (DMMM4) Organizing Committee and runs a lifestyle blog titled AerielViews aimed at young graduate and professional students.
John Lewandowski, Case Western Reserve University
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John Lewandowski is the Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Reliability Center (AMMRC). His primary appointment is in Materials Science and Engineering with secondary appointment in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Lewandowski’s BS, ME, and PhD are in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, earned at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, followed by a NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge University. Lewandowski is also Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His publications/presentations exceed 345 and 1050, respectively, in areas of processing/structure/property relationships in crystalline and amorphous advanced materials systems for aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and defense applications. Lewandowski’s recent work focuses on HEAs, as well as additive and other advanced manufacturing techniques. His collaborative work continues using synchrotron experiments to image damage evolution and environmental fracture in various structural aluminum alloys. Lewandowski’s various national/international awards for research and teaching/mentoring activities include the TMS Leadership Award, 2022 ASM Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award, ASMI Fellow, and Institute of Metals Charles Hatchett Award for work on Nb. He has served on numerous NSF and NAS/NRC panels while also serving on the editorial board of a number of journals.
Robert Maass, Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
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Robert Maass obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, held postdoc positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the California Institute of Technology, and was a junior research group leader at the University of Göttingen. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015, where he still enjoys an adjunct appointment. Since 2020, he is head of the Materials Engineering Department and a member of the directorate at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany. To date, he has published about 100 international peer-reviewed articles in mechanical metallurgy and given more than 60 invited lectures. His research interests revolve around thermo-mechanical microstructure-property relations of amorphous and crystalline metals.
Tim Rupert, University of California
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Tim Rupert is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in mechanical and aerospace engineering. He received a B.S./M.S. in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011.
Rupert's research focuses on uncovering new structure-property relationships in nanomaterials for structural and energy applications, as well as increasing the reliability and lifetime of these materials. To achieve their research goals, his lab uses a combination of computational and experimental techniques.
In recent years, Rupert has received an NSF CAREER Award, a U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, an Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award, a Hellman Fellowship, the ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers, and the AIME-TMS Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award. He serves on the editorial boards of Materials Science and Engineering A, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, and Scientific Reports.
Rupert has served TMS in a number of capacities. He is the current chair of the Thin Films and Interfaces Committee, following terms as vice-chair and secretary. He has also been a Programming Committee representative, served on the Awards Subcommittee, and was a Young Leaders representative for the Structural Materials Division Council. Rupert recently helped lead the planning and implementation of the inaugural Frontiers of Materials Award.
Taylor Sparks, University of Utah
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Taylor Sparks joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor in 2013. He completed his MS in materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara and his PhD in applied physics at Harvard University. He is currently the Director of the Materials Characterization Laboratory at the University of Utah and teaches classes on ceramics, materials science, characterization, and technology commercialization. His current research centers on the discovery, synthesis, characterization, and properties of new materials for energy applications.