Hands-On Additive Manufacturing Workshop

Course Description

Held at the EWI + Fabrisonic facility in Columbus, Ohio, this course will provide a survey of multiple metal additive manufacturing processes. Participants will have the opportunity to not only see, but also to touch, smell, and hear the various processes in action and observe the construction of relevant parts being built.

Featured areas will include:

• Powder bed fusion
• Directed energy deposition (blown powder and wire fed arc)
• 3D printing with arc welding
• Laser cold-wire
• Sheet lamination (ultrasonic additive manufacturing)

Those interested in additive manufacturing technologies with a lack of machine experience will benefit the most from this program, regardless of career level or background. As it directly relates to the metal additive features of focus, the most relevant industry audiences will be automotive, oil and gas, aerospace, academia, and government labs.

Developed to supplement TMS’s successful and long-running Additive Manufacturing and Materials Processes Workshop (an introductory-level additive-related professional development program, which will also be offered at MS&T18), this half-day workshop offers an opportunity to connect theory with application.

PLEASE NOTE: Because of admission restrictions at the EWI + Fabrisonic facility (where the workshop will be held), participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Instructors

Adam Hehr
Research Engineer
Fabrisonic

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Adam Hehr has near a decade of experience in various R&D environments, covering the fields of vibration, structural health monitoring, sensor development, material science, and UAM. As Fabrisonic’s Research Engineer, Hehr is the technical lead on many research programs, including the company’s embedded fiber optic strain sensor technology. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Ohio State University—specializing in the UAM process. Hehr also sits on the TMS Additive Manufacturing Committee and enjoys attending and contributing to MS&T and TMS.

Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair in Advanced Manufacturing
University of Tennessee

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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 (MSE). 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 (MDF) at ORNL. Babu has published more than 150 journal papers and numerous conference proceedings.

Paul Boulware
Applications Engineer,
EWI

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Paul Boulware specializes in the application of real-time sensory equipment for monitoring and controlling materials joining and additive manufacturing processes. He is the lead engineer of EWI’s efforts for in process sensing of metal additive manufacturing processes. In addition to his additive manufacturing experience, Boulware has developed custom hardware and software solutions for monitoring arc, resistance, laser, ultrasonic, and friction stir processes in realtime. This includes implementing thermocouples, current shunts, voltage probes, linear variable differential transformers (LVDT), light spectrometers, laser vision cameras, load cells, high-speed video, and infrared imaging. Boulware joined EWI in 2004 in the Laser Processing group running experimental trials on several Laser and Laser-Hybrid projects. In 2006, he became a Graduate Fellow in the Design, Controls, & Automation (DCA) group where he worked on sensory solutions for real-time quality monitoring of arc welding. Since being promoted to a project engineer in 2007, and applications engineer in 2009, he has expanded EWI’s sensing capabilities to other materials joining processes.

Rodrigo Enriquez
Project Engineer
EWI

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Rodrigo Enriquez is a member of EWI’s additive manufacturing (AM) team. He works primarily in 3D printing, implementing final parts, prototyping, and tooling. In addition, he has expertise in additive manufacturing of metals, developing CAD geometries, using powder bed fusion, fused deposition modeling, and binder jetting. Enriquez began his career at the W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, at the University of Texas. His work there led to a position as factory manager with America Makes, the first institute in the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. He has also worked with the Department of Defense to develop and demonstrate the use of AM technologies. He joined the AM group at EWI in Ohio in 2017.

Nick Kapustka
Senior Engineer
EWI

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Nick Kapustka joined EWI in 2004. Since then, he has built a successful reputation in the field of arc welding, specifically focusing on aluminum, titanium, magnesium, nickel-based alloys, and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS). He is proficient in applying gas metal arc welding (GMAW) processes for critical applications such as the repair of aerospace components, and has completed extensive work on the arc welding of magnesium and nickel-based alloys. His additional experience includes gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), plasma arc welding, submerged arc welding, oxy-fuel cutting, and fume testing and analysis. As an Applications Engineer in the Arc Welding group, he is responsible for initiating, conducting, managing, and reporting contract work. He has provided onsite engineering assistance to numerous organizations and serves as a member of EWI’s Navy Business Development Team.

Blake McAllister
Engineering Group Leader and Technology Advisor
EWI

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Blake McAllister has extensive technical expertise in high-powered laser materials processing. Since joining EWI as a technician in 2007, he has become an authority in laser materials processing applications with the use of both high- and low-power lasers including Nd:YAG, Yb-fiber, and CO2, with a specialty in high-power solid-state lasers up to 20-KW. McAllister has advanced processing techniques for high-power laser welding, large-scale directed energy deposition (DED), laser cutting and drilling, laser paint stripping, optics design and beam analysis, laser-wire welding, laser cladding, and hybrid laser-arc welding for a variety of materials including steel, stainless steel, titanium, nickel, and super alloys. He currently manages the Laser and Additive Manufacturing engineering groups at EWI. Prior to joining EWI, he worked for the Panasonic Factory Solutions Company, where he gained experience in robotics, automation, and lean manufacturing.

Mark Norfolk
President,
Fabrisonic

Jason Shaffer
Technician
EWI

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Jason Shaffer is a technician in the EWI Laser, Welding and Test Labs. His technical skills include robotic programming on multiple industry-leading platforms, industrial maintenance, CNC programming, 3D printing, blueprint reading, G,D&T, fixture design and implementation, machining, welding, and fabrication. He has spent nearly 20 years, primarily working for automotive manufacturers as a robotic and industrial maintenance technician. During his time with these companies, he honed his skills in programming, troubleshooting, design and repair of a wide variety of manufacturing equipment, but primarily specialized in industrial robotics for MIG and resistance welding applications.

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