Advisory Board

The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute's Board of Advisors includes industry leaders and nationally-recognized scholars. The institute works closely with its advisors for guidance in pursuit of market-centric research, national funding and industry partnership and funding opportunities. The board meets with the institute team annually, and spends time with individual institute members on key projects as determined. Board members serve three-year terms, and participate in future public forums.

Board of Advisors

  • Carter Biggs, Director of Manufacturing Innovation, BellFlight
  • Ed Dzialowski, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, University of North Texas
  • George (Rusty) T. Gray III, Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dynamic Materials Properties, Testing, and Modeling
  • Travis Hesterberg, Director of Technology and Innovation at RSR Technologies
  • Vishal Khosla, CEO of Rtech Instruments
  • Jon McCarry, Executive Director of Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of North Texas
  • Hamid Mohseni, Principal Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
  • Terrance Pohlen, Professor, Academic Associate Dean, Department of Logistics and Operations Management, Director of Jim McNatt Institute, University of North Texas
  • Rick F. Reidy, Professor, Associate Department Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
  • Jay Tiley, Section Head, Materials Structure and Processing Section, MST Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Vijay Vasudevan, Materials Science and Engineering Department Head, University of North Texas
  • Robert Wong, Proprietor, SES Research
  • Jeffrey Zabinski, Director of the Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, Army Research Laboratory