Dr. Guha
Manogharan is the Emmert H. Bashore Faculty Development Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University – University Park.
He heads the Systems for Hybrid – Additive Processing Engineering - The SHAPE
Lab which focuses on additive and hybrid manufacturing with an emphasis
on biomedical,
defense and aerospace applications. Dr. Manogharan received his Ph.D. (2014)
and M.S. (2009) from North Carolina State University. He has received the 2022
ASME ECLIPSE award, 2021 ASTM Emerging Young Professional Award, 2020 NSF
CAREER Award, 2018 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and
Additive Manufacturing Award (FAME Jr), 2017 Society of Manufacturing
Engineers’ Yoram Koren Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and the
2016 Outstanding Young Investigator by Manufacturing and Design Division of
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His current work is supported
by NSF, DoE, ONR, AFRL and Manufacturing PA.