Meeting Locations and Directions

Recent Advances in Direct Digital Manufacturing
Suman Das
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dates:  February 12, 2008
Time:   6:00 pm - Social, 6:30 pm - Dinner, 7:30 pm - Announcements, 7:45 pm - Dessert and Coffee, 8:00 pm - Presentation
Place:  Liberty Conference Center, Arlington, VA (see meeting locations link above)
RSVP:  by February 8, 2008 to Theresa Valentine Clark, chair@asm-dc.org.
Cost:  $20 for dinner, including beer and wine. Students pay only $10!

Abstract:
Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) involves the creation of products directly from their digital representations by processing advanced materials using computer-driven machinery. Join us on February 12 for an overview of the concept and current commercial practice of DDM, including three examples of DDM research: single crystal nickel superalloy airfoils for turbine engines, bio-resorbable polymer implants for bone regeneration, and solid oxide fuel cells. Each of these examples will illustrate the potential for DDM to achieve unprecedented performance, material properties, and production costs.

Biography:
Suman Das is associate professor and director of the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was previously a tenured associate professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include advanced design, manufacturing, materials science, process modeling, and control for direct digital manufacturing techniques that address current challenges in the aerospace, energy, biomedical, and life sciences sectors.