The Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory directed by Professor Suman Das is a part of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. We conduct research at the interface of Design, Manufacturing, and Materials Science. Our research laboratories totaling over 2700 square feet of space are instrumented with state-of-the-art equipment and facilties. Our labs are located in the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) building, the Manufacturing Related Disciplines Complex (MRDC), and the Erskine Love Building (Love).


Team
Laboratory Director
Professor Suman Das

Laboratory Manager
Paul Cilino

Research Scientists
Dr. Andres Lasagni
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow
Ph.D. (2006), Materials Science and Engineering
University of Saarland, Germany


Ph.D. Students
Dajun Yuan
Chan Yoon
Siddharth Athreya
Kiran Rao Kambly
Anirudh Rudraraju
Michael Kirka
Peng Shao
Rohan Bansal

Alumni
Dr. Haseung Chung, Assistant Professor, Hongik University, South Korea
James Santosa (M.S. 2002, now at Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA)
Brock Partee (M.S. 2004, now at Raytheon, FL)
Antonio Vittorini (M.S. 2005, now at General Motors, MI)
Erwin Widjaja (M.S. 2005, now at Intel, Portland, OR)
Carolyn Wineland (M.S. 2005, now at Medtronic, CA)
Krishnan Ramaswamy (Boston Scientific and pursuing Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering)
Karlin Bark (now pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University)
Adebisi Adewunmi (now at Delphi Automotive, MI)
Elizabeth Beck (now at Overbreak LLC, CA)
Elizabeth Nelson
Cindy Chen
Prateek Gadhoke
Danya King
Amanda Engel
Justin Philips
Brian Boss
Patrick Conway
Michael Kirka
Eric Lankheet
Seth McCullum
Ben Coffer
Brett Lyons (now at Boeing, St. Louis)


Research Laboratories
MARC 319-320 (shared with Prof. Dave Rosen)
MRDC 3340
MRDC 3323
MRDC 2332
MRDC 2340 (shared with MPRL)
Love Building Clean Room