Suman Das
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998
- M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1996
- B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1990
Research Areas and Descriptors
Background
Began at Tech in Fall 2007 as an Associate Professor with tenure. Prior, he was a tenured Associate Professor (2006-2007) and an Assistant Professor (2000-2006) of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
 3D design renditions and fabricated tissue engineering scaffolds for (a) a minipig mandibular condyle scaffold design, (b) & (c) two different human condyle scaffold designs incorporating 700mm struts and 1.1-2mm pores (Partee et al, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 128, 531-540).
Research
Professor Das directs the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory and Research Group at Georgia Tech. His research interests encompass a broad variety of interdisciplinary topics under the overall framework of advanced design, prototyping, direct digital manufacturing, and materials processing particularly to address emerging research issues in life sciences, propulsion, and energy. His ultimate objectives are to investigate the science and design of innovative processing techniques for advanced materials and to invent new manufacturing methods for fabricating devices with unprecedented functionality that can yield dramatic improvements in performance, properties and costs. His research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, NIH, NRL, ONR, and Rolls-Royce.
Distinctions
- Woodruff School Faculty Fellow, 2009-2013
- University of Michigan Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Outstanding Research in Materials and Manufacturing, 2005.
- Elsevier ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles Ranking for Biomaterials journal article, 2005.
- Emerald Literati Club Highly Commended Award for Excellence, 2005.
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2004.
- Emerald Literati Club Highly Commended Award for Excellence, 2004.
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2003.
- University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1999.
- TMS Michael J. Koczak Outstanding Paper Award. 1998.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1997.
Patents
- Direct Selective Laser Sintering of Metals, Suman Das and Joseph J. Beaman, United States Patent 6,676,892 issued January 13, 2004.
- Method and Apparatus for Making Components by Direct Laser Processing, Lawrence E. Brown, Timothy P. Fuesting, Suman Das and Joseph J. Beaman., United States Patent 6,355,086 issued March 12, 2002.
Representative Publications
- M.H. Smith, C.L. Flanagan, J. M. Kemppainen, J.A. Sack, H. Chung, S. Das, S.J. Hollister, S.E. Feinberg. 2007. Computed Tomography-Based Tissue Engineered Scaffolds in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery, 2007 (in press).
- D. Yuan and S. Das. 2007. Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Direct-Write Laser Micromachining of Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) by CO2 Laser Ablation, Journal of Applied Physics, 101 (1), 042901.
- H. Chung and S. Das. 2006. Processing and Properties of Glass Bead Particulate-filled Functionally Graded Nylon-11 composites Produced by Selective Laser Sintering, Materials Science and Engineering A, 437, 226-234.
- J.M. Williams, A. Adewunmi, R.M. Schek, C.L. Flanagan, P.H. Krebsbach, S.E. Feinberg, S.J. Hollister, S. Das. 2005. Bone tissue engineering using polycaprolactone scaffolds fabricated via selective laser sintering, Biomaterials, 26, 4817-4827.
- S. Das. 2003. Physical Aspects of Process Control in Direct Selective Laser Sintering of Metals, Advanced Engineering Materials, 5 (10), 701-711.
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