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
Robert W. Ivester Ph.D.
Acting Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office
U.S. Department of Energy
Summary
Robert W. Ivester, Ph.D., currently serves as the Acting Director of the Advanced
Manufacturing Office in the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) is
focused on creating a fertile innovation environment for advanced manufacturing,
enabling vigorous domestic development of new energy-efficient manufacturing
processes and materials technologies to reduce the energy intensity and life-cycle
energy consumption of manufactured products.
Full Bio
Prior to this position, Dr. Ivester served as the Executive Secretary to the Inter-agency
working group on Advanced Manufacturing, which was formed in 2011 under the
NSTC Committee on Technology in the Executive Office of the President, which
produced the February 2012 report “A National Strategic Plan for Advanced
Manufacturing”. Dr. Ivester’s research interests include manufacturing process
metrology, modeling, and optimization. Dr. Ivester has performed research to quantify
uncertainty associated with measurements and model-based predictions of
manufacturing process behavior. In particular, Dr. Ivester has performed extensive
research on the measurement of temperature and strain during metal cutting.
Dr. Ivester has been an instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for
Professionals program for graduate-level studies in manufacturing engineering since
2001. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and received
his Ph.D. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering
from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Manufacturing Office in the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) is
focused on creating a fertile innovation environment for advanced manufacturing,
enabling vigorous domestic development of new energy-efficient manufacturing
processes and materials technologies to reduce the energy intensity and life-cycle
energy consumption of manufactured products.
Full Bio
Prior to this position, Dr. Ivester served as the Executive Secretary to the Inter-agency
working group on Advanced Manufacturing, which was formed in 2011 under the
NSTC Committee on Technology in the Executive Office of the President, which
produced the February 2012 report “A National Strategic Plan for Advanced
Manufacturing”. Dr. Ivester’s research interests include manufacturing process
metrology, modeling, and optimization. Dr. Ivester has performed research to quantify
uncertainty associated with measurements and model-based predictions of
manufacturing process behavior. In particular, Dr. Ivester has performed extensive
research on the measurement of temperature and strain during metal cutting.
Dr. Ivester has been an instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for
Professionals program for graduate-level studies in manufacturing engineering since
2001. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and received
his Ph.D. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering
from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
