Principal Investigator
Allison M. Beese
Office: 327 Steidle Building, University Park, PA 16802
Email: beese@matse.psu.edu
Education
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Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Co-ambassador of Penn State's Women in 3D Printing chapter
Postdoctoral Scholars
Adnan Eghtesad
Education:
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, 2021
- M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, 2011
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, 2008
Hometown: Rochester, New Hampshire
Selda Nayir
Education:
- Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2019
- M.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2014
- B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Anadolu University, 2009
Hometown: Konya, Turkey
Graduate Students
Marcia Ahn
Ph.D. student
Education:
- B.S. in Materials Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, 2019
Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cole Britt
Ph.D. student
Education:
- B.S. in Materials Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2018
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Erik Furton
Ph.D. student
Education:
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Nancy Huang
Ph.D. student
Education:
- B.S. in Applied Physics, Binghamton University, 2020
- B.A. in Music, Binghamton University, 2020
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Shuang Lin
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- M.S. in Materials Engineering, University of Southern California, 2020
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, 2017
Hometown: Wenzhou, China
Qixiang Luo
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- M.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2018
Hometown: Beijing, China
Alexander M. Richter
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2020
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
John Shimanek
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- B.S. In Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
Hometown: Downers Grove, IL
Hui Sun
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, 2019
Hometown: Qingdao, China
Beril Tonyali
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2019
Hometown: Bolton, CT
Zhening Yang
Ph.D. Student
Education:
- M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021
- B.S. in College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, 2019
Hometown: Suzhou, China
Undergraduate Students
Taya Knappenberger
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Expected graduation: 2024
Hometown: Mohnton, PA
Taylor Rosen
Major: Science and Engineering (undecided)
Expected graduation: 2022
Hometown: Ambler, PA
Isabelle Seidenberg
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Expected graduation: 2023
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Justin Warner
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Expected graduation: 2023
Hometown: Kennet Square, PA
Alexandra Cabahug-Almonte
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Expected graduation: 2023
Hometown: King of Prussia, PA
Michael C. Schiavone
Major: Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Expected graduation: 2023
Hometown: Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Tianyi Fu
Major: Chemistry
Expected graduation: 2022
Hometown: Zhenjiang, Jiang Su, China
Jinying Wang
Major: Chemistry
Expected graduation: 2023
Hometown: Qingdao, Shandong, China
Zhaotong Lu
Major: Computer Science and Mathematica
Expected graduation: 2022
Hometown: Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Qihang Qiu
Major: Computational Data Science
Expected graduation: 2022
Hometown: Wuhan, Hubei, China
Group Alumni
Lourdes Bobbio
Degree: Ph.D.
Year: 2021
Thesis: Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Additively Manufactured Functionally Graded Materials
Alexander Wilson-Heid
Degree: Ph.D.
Year: 2021
Thesis: Additively Manufactured Metals: Effect of Microstructure and Defects on Multiaxial Plasticity and Fracture Behavior
Shipin Qin
Degree: Ph.D.
Year: 2020
Thesis: Influence of microstructure on the multiaxial plasticity and fracture of dual phase steels: experiments and multiscale computational modeling
John O'Brien
Degree: M.S.
Year: 2020
Thesis: Study of process-structure-property relationships in stainless steel 316L made by powder bed fusion
Filippo Nalli
Visiting Scholar from Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Year: 2019
Matthew Feurer
Degree: M.S.
Year: 2019
Thesis: Updated sublattice models of topologically close packed phases with a revised phase description of sigma phase
Tzu-Hsiang Huang
Degree: M.S.
Year: 2019
Thesis: Investigation and characterization of stainless steel/hydroxyapatite powder composites by binder manufacturing
Zhuqing Wang
Degree: Ph.D.
Year: 2018
Thesis: Experimental characterization and modeling of multiaxial plasticity behavior of austenitic stainless steel 304L produced by additive manufacturing
Nathan Kistler
Degree: M.S.
Year: 2016
Thesis: Toward the Repair of Components via Additive Manufacturing: Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Single Beads and Patches
Recent Undergraduate Alumni
Alexander Caputo
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Bayli Grossi
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Kelsey Jenkins
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Promi Islam
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Andrew Johnson
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Krystal Leung
Major: Computer Science
Alexis Miller
Major: Materials Science and Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Greta Miller
Major: Engineering
Haley Myer
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Theresa Novak
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Emily Rowan
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Madeline Vailhe
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Lu Yin
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Tianming Zhao
Major: Materials Science and Engineeringing