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Professor
John Hart
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP); MechE Maker Czar
Interests
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Mechanical design and automation
Faculty Details
Education
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2000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
B.S.E -
2002
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
S.M. -
2006
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Nanostructured materials
- Additive manufacturing
- Machine design and automation
- Printed electronics and sensors
- Composite materials
- Surface engineering
- Mechanochemistry
- Research methods
Online Data
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations? user=V7ZsMrMAAAAJ&hl=en
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=768738
- ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-9027-2010
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A_John_Hart
Honors + Awards
- 2017 MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mechanical Engineering
- 2014 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
- 2014 Best Poster Award, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
- 2013 Mitsui Career Development Chair, MIT
- 2013 Best Paper Award in Compliant Mechanisms, 37th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
- 2012 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
- 2012 1938E Award, University of Michigan College of Engineering
- 2012 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Office of Naval Research
- 2011 Robert M. Caddell Award in Manufacturing, University of Michigan
- 2011 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- 2010 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering
- 2010 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- 2010 Frontiers of Engineering Attendee, National Academy of Engineering
- 2009 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2009 R&D100 Award (Spin-Grower Layer-by-Layer Assembly System)
- 2008 Finalist, MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize
- 2008 Young Faculty Award (YFA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- 2008 R&D100 Award (SabreTube Desktop Thermal Processing System)
- 2008 Holcim Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction
- 2006 MIT Senturia Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Micro/Nanosystems
- 2002 Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 2000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Memberships
- Materials Research Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- American Physical Society
Professional Service
- 2017, Co-Chair, International Workshop on Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Atomically-Thin Nanomaterials
- 2015-Present, Program Committee and Advisory Committee, ASME Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Conference
- 2014-Present, Editorial Board, Carbon
- 2014, Organizing Committee, ASME Workshop on Scalable Nanomanufacturing, Benchmarks, Standards, and Metrics
- 2013-Present, Organizing Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
- 2013, Technical Program Chair, NSF Workshop on Nano- and Micromanufacturing
- 2012-Present, Member, ASME Research Committee on Nanomanufacturing Technology
- 2007-Present, Proposal Reviews for NSF, DOE, AFOSR
MIT Service
- 2017-Present, Director, MIT Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies
- 2017-Present, Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
- 2017-Present, MechE "Maker Czar"
- 2015-17, MechE General Faculty Search Committee
- 2014-Present, Coordinator, LMP Seminar Series
- 2014-15, MechE Website Design Committee
- 2012-13, MechE Graduate Admissions Committee
Teaching
- Manufacturing Processes and Systems (2.008, MIT)
- Additive Manufacturing (2.S981/2.S998, MIT)
- Nanomanufacturing
- Ph.D. Research Process
Publications
- Please refer to Google Scholar or the Mechanosynthesis Group Webpage (links above)
Patents
- Please refer to Google Scholar or the Mechanosynthesis Group Webpage (links above)