Illinois Coalition for Manufacturing Innovation

With the strengths of Argonne National Laboratory and IIT's Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Department subject matter experts, manufacturers will have access to a strong team to assist in diagnosing a wide variety of technical challenges. Through the manufacturing innovation collaboration, Argonne and IIT's MMAE will work with manufacturers to figure out who is the right expert to provide consulting.

IIT's MMAE Department also offers a set of experts from the department faculty to help manufacturers with their technical challenges. The faculty, with speciality listed, include

Phil Nash

Physical Metallurgy

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Xiaoping Qian

Design and Manufacturing, CAD/CAM

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Matthew Spenko

Control, Dynamics, and Mechanical Design

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Sammy Tin

Ni-base superalloys and other high performance structural materials systems

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Murat Vural

Cellular solids

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Benxin Wu

Laser-based Manufacturing

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Jamal Yagoobi

Materials Processing

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Argonne National Laboratory offers engineers and scientists to help manufacturers solve technical problems. Some of the subject areas include coatings, energy efficiency improvment, waste generation minimization, advanced separation technologies, process engineering, scale up know how, process design.

Argonne National Laboratory experts include:

Ali Erdemir

Senior scientist - Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory

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Bassam Jody

Project manager - Process Technology Research, Argonne National Laboratory

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Glenn Keller

Section Manager - Vehicle Systems Group - Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory

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Claude Reed

Manager, Technology Initiatives Section - Nuclear Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory

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Dan Schabacker

Team Leader, Bio-Detection Technologies, Argonne National Laboratory

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Seth Snyder

Section Leader, Process Technology Research

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