2023 Regional Additive Manufacturing Symposium

Youssef AbouelNour is a mechanical engineer, who obtained his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2019 and is now a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. His research work is focused on in-situ process monitoring of additive manufacturing for defect detection. He has developed an image-based automated inspection monitoring system for image acquisition, methods for enhancing image quality using image processing algorithms, and used machine learning and other methods for image correlation and interpretation of defect information through image analysis and temperature variations monitoring. Youssef has published his research results in leading journals in the field, such as Additive Manufacturing and Materials & Design.

Nicolas J. Alvarez earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. After three years of postdoctoral work at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel in 2014, where he continues to work as an Associate Professor. His lab develops experimental tools to characterize the behavior of polymers and surfactants in nonlinear flows, at interfaces, and in bulk. The Alvarez Research Group is collaborating with Rowan University, PPG, and other groups under a sponsored research project with the Army Research Laboratory to advance additive manufacturing in the area of 3D printed reinforcements and composites, including advancing the understanding of processing parameters and designing novel 3D printers.

Casey Cox is currently a research assistant at Rowan University's Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Institute (AMMI). She recently graduated from Rowan with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. She will be attending the University of Delaware this fall as a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering.

Sudipto Das is currently a Senior Technologist with Aurorium’s Applications Development and Research Group, based in Ledgewood, NJ. He holds a BS-MS in Industrial Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and a Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from Drexel University, Philadelphia. Sudipto has over 12 years of industry experience in new polymer and polymeric materials development.

Chadi Ellouzi is currently a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at Rowan

University, New Jersey. His research focuses on two areas: (1) acoustofluidics and its

application in cell and microparticle manipulation using bulk and surface acoustic

waves; and (2) acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces and their applications in the

manipulation and control of acoustic waves. He earned his B.S. in aerospace engineering

from the College of Aviation and Technology ESPAT, Tunisia, and his M.S. in

mechanical engineering from Rowan University, New Jersey, which focused on

developing exoskeleton systems for trip-induced fall prevention. He has received several

academic awards, such as the BLOHSWEICH award for the best presentation in 2021,

the GE leadership development internship for academic excellence in 2016, the ESPAT

academic achievement award for outstanding student in 2015, and the ISTAT

international aviation scholarship for academic merit in 2014.

Ahmed M. H. Ibrahim earned a BSc in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University (Cairo, Egypt) in 2015 and an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Swansea University (Wales, UK) in 2018. He is currently a graduate research assistant at Alvarez Research Group, Chemical and Biological Engineering (last year of PhD) at Drexel University. Ahmed's research interests include additive manufacturing, composite materials, polymer processing and fracture mechanics. He specializes in process design and optimization, material characterization and testing. 

Thamires Lima is a Research Assistant Professor at Drexel University. Her work revolves around the development, enhancement of mechanical properties, and physicochemical investigation of drug-delivery systems, resins for additive manufacturing, and self-assembled materials.

Dr. Rajiv Malhotra received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and joined Rutgers University in 2017. His research interests lie in the science-driven innovation and control of additive manufacturing processes . He is an associate editor for SME Manufacturing Letters and SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes, a guest editor for ASME and SME journals, chair of the Micro-Nanomanufacturing track in the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, and a scientific committee member in the North American Manufacturing Research Conference. His research and service efforts were recognized via the SME Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and the SME Associate Editor of the Year Award.

Noah McAllister is a rising senior studying Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at Rutgers University. He works in the Hybrid Micro/Nanomanufacturing Lab, where he researches thin-film coatings manufactured by self-limiting electrospray deposition. Noah is also a Systems Engineering Intern at Lockheed Martin Space on the NASA/APL Dragonfly mission.

Antonio Paesano, PhD, is Technical Lead at The Boeing Company. He has worked in: additive manufacturing (AM), engineering materials, advanced manufacturing, testing and analysis, product development, metrology, sustainable materials, and quality improvement. He holds seven patents, authored and co-authored 60+ technical papers, and authored two book chapters in engineering materials and design. He has been the scientific chair of symposia on AM, sustainable polymers, and innovation in aerospace. He authored the Handbook of Sustainable Polymers for Additive Manufacturing, CRC Press, 2022, 598 pages.

Giuseppe R. Palmese currently serves as the Dean of the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University, as well as the Associate Director of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Institute (AMMI). Dr. Palmese received his B.S.E. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware. His academic and research background include positions as Distinguished Professor, Department Head of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. Earlier in his career, he also served as Assistant Director of the University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials. Dr. Palmese's research interests are focused on processing-structure-property relationships of thermosetting systems, with current projects exploring fundamental aspects of network polymers, additive manufacturing, functional thermoset systems, nanocomposites, materials from renewable sources, and materials for biomedical applications.

Chris Piccolo is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Rowan University, currently studying Pharmaceutical Sciences with an affiliation to the Grinias Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. He began studying undergraduate Biochemistry at Rowan in 2017 and pursued a higher chemistry degree at Rowan upon graduating in 2021. Much of the fabrication performed by the Grinias Lab is based on fusion-deposition-additive-manufacturing.

Joe Stanzione is a professor of chemical engineering and the founding director of the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI) at Rowan University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2013 and immediately joined the faculty at Rowan University. His research program focuses on advancing fundamental and applied science and engineering technology related to materials research with the goal to sustainably utilize nature’s chemistries to enhance material performance.  His specific research interests include: the utilization of lignocellulosics as an alternative renewable chemicals feedstock; green chemistry and engineering for the development of next-generation lignocellulosic biorefineries; bio-based polymers and polymer composites for high-performance and energy applications; and advancing the technological disruptiveness of additive manufacturing (AM), including cold spray AM.

Heedong Yoon is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University. Dr. Yoon holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University, and a B.S. from Sogang University. Yoon’s research interests include determining 3D printing processing regimes through rheological investigation, developing pitch-based fiber(carbon fiber) through melt spinning techniques, and measuring shear and extensional rheological behavior of pitch.