Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing
Suresh Babu is a materials scientist who explores the production, design, and performance of transforming materials into parts.
His research helps widen the scope of advanced manufacturing and additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, which is the process of adding successive layers to make a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model.
Babu is director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. He also serves in UT’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering as well as the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Bio Pages
Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education
Joint Institute for Advanced Materials
Facility Page
Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
In the News
December 2018 Suresh Babu to Lead UT-ORNL Bredesen Center
April 2018 UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair to Lead Major Research for US Navy
December 2017 Babu Receives Awards for His Expertise
March 2017 Nature Publishes UT Graduate Student’s Work
December 2016 UTRF Innovation Award Ceremony Honors UT Researchers
April 2016 High School Students Team with UT, ORNL to Produce New Type of Nail
October 2015 Aerojet Rocketdyne, UT, ORNL Take on New Advanced Manufacturing Thrust
January 2015 UT, ORNL Get a LIFT from Manufacturing Innovation Center
January 2015 IACMI: What it Means for UT, ORNL, and East Tennessee
October 2014 ORNL research reveals unique capabilities of 3-D printing
February 2014 UT Part of $140 Million White House Advanced Manufacturing Initiative
February 2014 White House Blog: Manufacturing Innovation Institutes: Putting America at the Forefront of 21st Century Manufacturing
November 2013 Four Faculty Named AAAS Fellows
Appointed
July 2013 from Ohio State University
Contact Info
Email
UT sbabu@utk.edu
ORNL babuss@ornl.gov
Phone
UT 865-974-5184
ORNL 865-946-1270
Address
UT
407 Dougherty Engineering Building
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210