AMWEEK.MST.EDU - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Research / College of Engineering and Computing
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies
- Director, Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies / Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Douglas A. Bristow is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri S&T in 2001. He received his M.S. and Ph.D., also in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
Dr. Bristow is the Director of the Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies, an industry consortium that currently includes twelve member companies. He has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and his research interests include precision motion control, repetitive and iterative process control, additive manufacturing process control, atomic force microscopy, and volumetric error compensation in machine tools and robotics. Dr. Bristow's research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, and multiple companies. He is an Associate Editor at the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.
Dr. Frank Liou is the Michael and Joyce Bytnar Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology. He was the co-founder and has served as the Director of the Manufacturing Engineering Program at Missouri S&T since 1999, and has successfully received several curriculum development funds and set up two scholarship endowment programs.
He has received over $20M in research funding and published a book on Rapid Prototyping along with over 300 technical papers. Dr. Liou's research excels in additive manufacturing (AM), including hybrid additive and subtractive processes, path planning, multiscale multiphysics process modeling, and AM process monitoring and control. His research has been funded by AFRL, NASA, NSF, and industries.
Dr. Liou has received several teaching, research, and service awards, including several best paper awards. He is a senior member SME and a Fellow of ASME.
Job Titles:
- CTO
- Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) of High Value Manufacturing ( HVM ) Catapult
Dr. Sam Turner is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult. He works across the HVM Catapult centres and stakeholders, including government, to develop manufacturing strategy for the UK. He is part of the Made Smarter strategy implementation group led by Juergen Maier and was part of the review team. In this role Sam has chaired the D4I digital industry group, the Through Life Engineering Services (TES) Council and the IMechE Manufacturing Industries Division.
He joined the HVM Catapult team in 2017 from his role as CTO of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, where he worked on a range of projects and capabilities including the flagship digital facility Factory 2050, machining, casting and composites technology. As a founding member of the AMRC, Sam led the growth of the AMRC's Machining Group, with successes in delivering impact to UK industry, before moving into the CTO role. Sam has over 20 years experience in manufacturing working across the aerospace, steel, defense, automotive sectors.
Jim Lewis is the Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics, the Director of the Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education and the Director of STEM education research initiatives in the Office of Research and Economic Development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
From 2004-2006 he served as Chair of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. From 2015-2018 he worked at the National Science Foundation, first as Deputy Assistant Director and then as Acting Assistant Director for the Directorate for Education and Human Resources.
Lewis was chair of the writing team for The Mathematical Education of Teachers II, co-chair of the National Research Council committee that produced Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Technology: New Practices for the new Millennium, and a member of the AMS Task Force that produced Towards Excellence: Leading a Doctoral Mathematics Department in the 21st Century.
Laura Ely is the ADDvisor® Services Leader at The Barnes Group Advisors; she leads a team of industry recognized additive manufacturing experts in providing specialty technical and strategic solutions to solve customer problems. Laura specializes in driving technological change in organizations. This includes translating technical roadmaps into strategic business visions and vice versa, building businesses cases, securing capital and operating funding, protecting and exploiting Intellectual Property, and collaborating across the industrial supply chain. Laura's leadership skills are highlighted through her ability to build and enable diverse teams. As the Head of Technology for GKN Aerostructures, she was responsible for the build out of a new team focused on the maturation of laser/wire deposition for Titanium aerostructures after negotiating a CRADA between GKN Aerospace and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, valued at $18M over 5 years.
Laura has a passion for optimizing manufacturing processes. For over 15 years, she has focused on improving metallic alloys and processes, specifically for laser/wire deposition, friction stir welding, spin forming, machining, and various wrought processes with application to Titanium aerostructures, Aluminum wing skins and inlet lip skins, and Copper electrical connectors, coinage, and ammunition. Her passion for advanced manufacturing and promoting diversity in the workplace is contagious, and Laura shares her energy via various public forums, ranging from executive conferences to university lectures to kindergarten classrooms.
Laura holds a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Missouri S&T and has been active on the campus as a CAMT Industrial Advisory Board member, Chancellor's Leadership Committee member, and as an invited lecturer.