Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University in2011, and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007. He is currently theassociate professor in Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University ofLouisville, Louisville, KY, USA, with primary research focused on design of additivemanufacturing and lightweight structure designs. Between 2012 and 2013, he worked as testingengineer in B/E Aerospace, and took primary responsibilities of the establishment and dailyoperation of the life cycle testing group. He is the recipient of 2016 International OutstandingYoung Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing (FAME Junior) Award, the 2012Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Additive Manufacturing, and2007 3rd Grade Scholarship of Excellency in Tsinghua University.
Dr. Hsu received his Ph.D in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Since then, he has devoted his professional life toresearch, teaching, and engineering consulting. More than 30 peer-reviewed journal publicationshave resulted from his research work which revolves around advanced manufacturing at multiplescales in both top-down and bottom-up approaches. He has 8 years of directing additivemanufacturing research laboratories including the Ford Rapid Prototyping Lab at the Universityof Illinois, and the Advanced Multi-scale Manufacturing Lab within the Manufacturing Researchand Innovation Hub at ASU. He is a member of SME.
Dr. Nanu Menon PhD received his Doctorate in Materials Engineering from VanderbiltUniversity. This was followed by a post-doc appointment at USC before proceeding to work atWPAFB, Dayton, OH as a National Research Council Fellow. Since then, he has worked atWestinghouse Hanford, Richland, WA. and GE Aircraft Engines at Evendale before coming towork at Garrett in Phoenix in 1981. At Garrett/Allied Signal/Honeywell, he has been working inthe Life Methods Group for the past 32 years, characterizing alloys, creating mechanicalproperty, fatigue and creep rate models, developing life prediction codes, and establishingfractographic knowledge useful in failure analysis.
Dr. Francisco Medina PhD., holds a position as Associate Professor at The University of Texas at ElPaso, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also Director of Technology and Engagementat the W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation and Executive Consultant HTL Japan. He has over twenty-three years of experience in AM and has educated over one thousand scientists and engineers in metalsAM technology, processes, and advanced applications. He has published and contributed to over 120peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has been awarded thirteenadditive manufacturing patents, with several other patents pending. In his past position, Dr. Medina wasthe Technology Leader for Additive Manufacturing (AM) and the Director of the Additive ManufacturingConsortium (AMC) at EWI. As Technology Leader, he established the vision and goals for additivemanufacturing technology at EWI and represented EWI nationally/internationally to help grow the EWIbrand. Previous to EWI, Dr. Medina was a senior specialist in materials development at Arcam,stationed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he managed Arcam’s relationships and R&D activitiesin North America. He would work with companies such as Honeywell Aerospace, Pratt and Whitney andGE to produce and qualify AM materials. Throughout his career, his research interests have centeredaround additive manufacturing, with a heavy emphasis on the acceleration and advancement of themanufacturing readiness of metal AM technology. Specifically, he has focused his attention on newrapid AM alloy development, new AM strategies for material processing, material qualification, low-costpowder manufacturing, and AM education.Dr. Medina is the former chair of the SME Additive Manufacturing Community. His professionalaffiliations include ASTM International, SME, MRS, SAE, and TMS.
Jorge Mireles PhD earned his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, in 2011 and his M.S.degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, in 2013, from The University of Texas at ElPaso. He also received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas El Pasoin 2025. He joined the W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation in 2006 and started performingresearch related to Additive Manufacturing (AM) using vat photopolymerization and materialextrusion. As a graduate student, and later as a Research Manager at the Center, Jorge workedwith a range of powder bed fusion technologies including binder jetting, electron-beam, andlaser-beam melting technologies for six years where he conducted research related to parameterdevelopment of novel alloys, in situ process monitoring, and process optimization.
Michelle Meyer is Founder and CEO of MatterProviders, a supply chain design and distributionservices company dedicated to Additive Manufacturing, with a focus on moving materials. Shewas also co-founder and co-CEO of Morf3D, an Additive Manufacturing services company.She is a 35-year supply chain professional dedicated to client service.Her primary focus is always building great teams to improve supply chain capabilities. She hasworked in both industry and consulting across a variety of industries including A&D, industrialmanufacturing, chemicals, automotive OEM, high-tech, food and beverage, and healthcare. Shehas worked in transportation/logistics, distribution operations, order management, networkoptimization, and consulting doing work ranging from supply chain strategy development,S&OP, scheduling, procurement, organization design, large ERP implementations, and large-scale business transformation program/project management.Michelle served as the 2020 Chair of the Board of Directors for the Council of Supply ChainManagement Professionals. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University ofDenver, Daniels College of Business teaching Supply Chain and Logistics Management whereshe received the university-wide Excellence in Teaching award, and is a 1988 graduate of theUniversity of Colorado-Boulder Leeds School of Business with a B.S. degree in Transportationand Logistics.
Steve Fournier: is a Sr. Manager, Additive Manufacturing Department & Center of ExcellenceGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) Steve Fournier is currently AdditiveManufacturing (AM) department Sr. Manager at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems inc.(GA-ASI), where he drives AM strategic growth plans, next generation AM applications andindustrial flight hardware production operations, working together with his team andstakeholders. He is also managing the Additive Design & Manufacturing Center of Excellence atGA-ASI since 2018. With a graduate degree background in Engineering Physics, his 23+ yrs ofprofessional experience spans from high energy/power laser development and manufacturingwith Coherent, US Department of Energy project management at Lawrence Berkeley NationalLab, engineering management and business development at KLA-Tencor semiconductors inSilicon Valley, California, to aerospace and defense AM manufacturing leadership at GA-ASI.He has over 15 years of experience as AM user, AM team developments, technical college AMteaching, and R&D experience with multiple metal, polymer and tooling AM technologies.
Donald Godfrey is President of D&B Partners Consulting LLC. Donald holds over 70 patentsrelated to additive manufacturing. Donald Godfrey holds a BS from Purdue University and anMS from Indiana Wesleyan University. He earned a Continuation Education Diploma from TheUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison in the area of Value Engineering and a Master’s Certificatefrom The George Washington University in the area of Project Management. He is responsiblefor the integration of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing into the Honeywell business cultureand has technology responsibility for the laboratories in Brno, Czech Republic; Shanghai, China;Bangalore, India and Phoenix, Arizona. Donald is a globally recognized authority on additivemanufacturing technology, and processes, and has been awarded over 70 patents in the UnitedStates and Europe related to additive manufacturing.
