The Melkote Advanced Manufacturing Research Group is delighted to announce that Akshar Kota, Asif Rashid, and Farzad Vatandoust have been selected as recipients of Spring 2025 Topping Fellowships, awarded by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. These competitive fellowships recognize graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research, scholarship, leadership, and innovation during […]
Dr. Shreyes Melkote Appointed Interim Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
The Melkote Advanced Manufacturing Research Group is proud to share that our principal investigator, Dr. Shreyes Melkote, has been appointed Interim Chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Melkote will begin this leadership role on May 15, 2025, following the departure of Dr. Devesh Ranjan, who has accepted […]
Akshar Kota Selected as a 2025 Novelis Graduate Scholar by the Novelis Innovation Hub at Georgia Tech
We are proud to announce that our group member, Akshar Kota, has been selected as 2025 Novelis Graduate Scholars by the Novelis Innovation Hub at Georgia Tech. This prestigious recognition is awarded to top graduate students conducting impactful research in areas such as sustainability, the circular economy, high-throughput materials discovery, surface functionalization, and AI/data science applications in materials, manufacturing, and […]
Akshar Kota Presents Research on Interface Engineering of Bimetallic Wire-Arc DED structures at ASTM ICAM 2024
Akshar Kota, a Ph.D. student from our research group, presented a poster titled “Enhancing the Interfacial Properties of Low Carbon Steel and SS316L Bi-metallic Interface via Mesoscale Groove Engineering in Hybrid Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposition” at ASTM ICAM 2024. This research introduces a hybrid manufacturing technique combining wire-arc directed energy deposition and precision milling to address challenges in […]