NSF Workshop:
Faculty Development Needs for Advanced Manufacturing in the USA
Located at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA on January 9th and 10th, 2014
Rajesh Mehta is a Program Director in the Small Business
Innovation Research Program at the National Science
Foundation. His focus areas include Advanced
Manufacturing and Nanotechnology. Prior to joining NSF in
2012, he was a senior research technologist at Kodak
where his 26-year career spanned work at Kodak Research
Laboratories, and Manufacturing Research and Engineering
Organization. His work covered a broad range of materials
science based technologies related to photographic film and
paper manufacturing, thermal, inkjet, and electro-
photographic printing, and OLED device manufacturing. He
has a B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Chemical Engineering from Penn State, and a M.S. degree in
New Product Development from Rochester Institute of
Technology.
Innovation Research Program at the National Science
Foundation. His focus areas include Advanced
Manufacturing and Nanotechnology. Prior to joining NSF in
2012, he was a senior research technologist at Kodak
where his 26-year career spanned work at Kodak Research
Laboratories, and Manufacturing Research and Engineering
Organization. His work covered a broad range of materials
science based technologies related to photographic film and
paper manufacturing, thermal, inkjet, and electro-
photographic printing, and OLED device manufacturing. He
has a B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Chemical Engineering from Penn State, and a M.S. degree in
New Product Development from Rochester Institute of
Technology.
Rajesh Mehta
Program Director in Small Business Innovation Research Program
National Science Foundation
