Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University in 2011, and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007. He is currently the assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, with primary research focused on design of additive manufacturing and lightweight structure designs. Between 2012 and 2013, he worked as testing engineer in B/E Aerospace and took primary responsibilities of the establishment and daily operation of the life cycle testing group. He is the recipient of 2016 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing (FAME Junior) Award, the 2012 Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Additive Manufacturing, and 2007 3rd Grade Scholarship of Excellency in Tsinghua University. Dr. Yang is a member of IIE, SME, SAMPE, ACerS, and TMS. He is also a member of Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering). Dr. Hsu received his Ph.D in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Since then, he has devoted his professional life to research, teaching, and engineering consulting. More than 30 peer-reviewed journal publications have resulted from his research work which revolves around advanced manufacturing at multiple scales in both top-down and bottom-up approaches. He has 8 years of directing additive manufacturing research laboratories including the Ford Rapid Prototyping Lab at the University of Illinois, and the Advanced Multi-scale Manufacturing Lab within the Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub at ASU. He is a member of SME. Dr. Nanu Menon PhD received his Doctorate in Materials Engineering from Vanderbilt University. This was followed by a post-doc appointment at USC before proceeding to work at WPAFB, Dayton, OH as a National Research Council Fellow. Since then, he has worked at Westinghouse Hanford, Richland, WA. and GE Aircraft Engines at Evendale before coming to work at Garrett in Phoenix in 1981. At Garrett/Allied Signal/Honeywell, he has been working in the Life Methods Group for the past 32 years, characterizing alloys, creating mechanical property, fatigue and creep rate models, developing life prediction codes, and establishing fractographic knowledge useful in failure analysis. Dr. Francisco Medina PhD., holds a position as Associate Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also Director of Technology and Engagement at 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 metals AM technology, processes, and advanced applications. He has published and contributed to over 120 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has been awarded thirteen additive manufacturing patents, with several other patents pending. In his past position, Dr. Medina was the Technology Leader for Additive Manufacturing (AM) and the Director of the Additive Manufacturing Consortium (AMC) at EWI. As Technology Leader, he established the vision and goals for additive manufacturing technology at EWI and represented EWI nationally/internationally to help grow the EWI brand. 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 activities in North America. He would work with companies such as Honeywell Aerospace, Pratt and Whitney and GE to produce and qualify AM materials. Throughout his career, his research interests have centered around additive manufacturing, with a heavy emphasis on the acceleration and advancement of the manufacturing readiness of metal AM technology. Specifically, he has focused his attention on new rapid AM alloy development, new AM strategies for material processing, material qualification, low-cost powder manufacturing, and AM education. Dr. Medina is the former chair of the SME Additive Manufacturing Community. His professional affiliations 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 El Paso. He also received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas El Paso in 2025. He joined the W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation in 2006 and started performing research related to Additive Manufacturing (AM) using vat photopolymerization and material extrusion. As a graduate student, and later as a Research Manager at the Center, Jorge worked with a range of powder bed fusion technologies including binder jetting, electron-beam, and laser-beam melting technologies for six years where he conducted research related to parameter development of novel alloys, in situ process monitoring, and process optimization. Michelle Meyer is Founder and CEO of MatterProviders, a supply chain design and distribution services company dedicated to Additive Manufacturing, with a focus on moving materials. She was 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 has worked in both industry and consulting across a variety of industries including A&D, industrial manufacturing, chemicals, automotive OEM, high-tech, food and beverage, and healthcare. She has worked in transportation/logistics, distribution operations, order management, network optimization, 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 Chain Management Professionals. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business teaching Supply Chain and Logistics Management where she received the university-wide Excellence in Teaching award, and is a 1988 graduate of the University of Colorado-Boulder Leeds School of Business with a B.S. degree in Transportation and Logistics. Steve Fournier: is a Sr. Manager, Additive Manufacturing Department & Center of Excellence General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) Steve Fournier is currently Additive Manufacturing (AM) department Sr. Manager at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems inc. (GA-ASI), where he drives AM strategic growth plans, next generation AM applications and industrial flight hardware production operations, working together with his team and stakeholders. He is also managing the Additive Design & Manufacturing Center of Excellence at GA-ASI since 2018. With a graduate degree background in Engineering Physics, his 23+ yrs of professional experience spans from high energy/power laser development and manufacturing with Coherent, US Department of Energy project management at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, engineering management and business development at KLA-Tencor semiconductors in Silicon 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 AM teaching, 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 patents related to additive manufacturing. Donald Godfrey holds a BS from Purdue University and an MS from Indiana Wesleyan University. He earned a Continuation Education Diploma from The University of Wisconsin – Madison in the area of Value Engineering and a Master’s Certificate from The George Washington University in the area of Project Management. He is responsible for the integration of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing into the Honeywell business culture and has technology responsibility for the laboratories in Brno, Czech Republic; Shanghai, China; Bangalore, India and Phoenix, Arizona. Donald is a globally recognized authority on additive manufacturing technology, and processes, and has been awarded over 70 patents in the United States and Europe related to additive manufacturing.
