Dr. Howard Kuhn is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering, where he teaches courses in manufacturing and additive manufacturing and performs research on additive manufacturing for tissue engineering. He also presents tailored professional development courses on powder metallurgy and additive
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to industrial and government facilities.
Dr. Kuhn is a Fellow of ASM International (FASM) and a member of the ASM Failure Analysis Society and the Pittsburgh Chapter. His voluntary contributions to ASM publications include serving as a Volume Editor (with David L. Bourell, William Frazier, and Mohsen Seifi) of the recently released ASM Handbook, Volume 24: Additive Manufacturing Processes, and also Volume 8: Mechanical Testing and Evaluation (with Dana Medlin). He has contributed articles to ASM Handbooks Volume 7: Powder Metallurgy, Volume 14A: Metalworking: Bulk Forming, Volume 14B: Metalworking: Sheet Forming, Volume 22A: Fundamentals of Modeling for Metals Processing, and Volume 22B: Metals Process Simulation.
He is an editor of the ASM book Handbook of Workability and Process Design (with George E. Dieter and S. Lee Semiatin) and serves as an instructor of the ASM education courses Powder Metallurgy for Additive Manufacturing and Metallurgy for Additive Manufacturing (with Daniel P. Dennies). He also taught 3D Printing to high school students at Materials Mini-Camp presented by the ASM Materials Education Foundation.
From 2003 to 2018, Dr. Kuhn was Director of Research at ExOne where he contributed to material and process development of the binder jetting process for metals and sand molds. He was a founding Deputy Director of America Makes (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) where he served as Technical Advisor from 2012 to 2018.
He was Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Scienda, LLC from June 2000 to October 2002, implementing modern CAD/CAM/CAE technologies for the design and automated manufacture of light gage steel structures and composite panels for residential and commercial construction.
Dr. Kuhn was co-founder of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) (originally Metalworking Technology Incorporated, a subsidiary of the University of Pittsburgh), an independent non-profit applied research and development firm headquartered in Johnstown, PA. Serving as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer (1988 – 2000), he had cognizance over all technical activities and was responsible for quality in technical performance, educational partnerships, and strategic technical planning. Specializing in advanced technology implementation in manufacturing, environmental design, and electronic commerce for major government clients and private industry, CTC grew to over 1300 employees with offices around the world. A major technical accomplishment of this activity was the advancement of concurrent engineering and process simulation as everyday tools in the government’s acquisition process. While at CTC, and as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Kuhn established and taught the first distance-learning courses between multiple sites for the University’s M.S. Program in Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
Dr. Kuhn was co-founder of Deformation Control Technology (DCT), a consulting firm serving the metalworking industry in Cleveland, OH and Pittsburgh, PA. As the Technical Director at DCT (1980 – 1987), he was responsible for business development and technical activities, including project definition and management, analysis, design, materials testing, and reporting to clients.
At Drexel University (1966 – 1974) and the University of Pittsburgh (1975 – 1987), with joint appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, he developed undergraduate and graduate courses in deformation processing, powder metallurgy, engineering design, failure analysis, and mechanical metallurgy. He also instituted materials processing laboratories for undergraduate instruction and graduate research. In addition, Dr. Kuhn established research programs in deformation processing, powder metallurgy, computer-aided design and expert systems under industrial and government funding. These projects resulted in twenty-one Ph.D. thesis dissertations and twenty-two M.S. thesis dissertations. Significant results of this research included the development of a fracture criterion for application to industrial metalworking operations, and seminal papers on deformation processing of powder materials, including criteria for plasticity and fracture, as well as process design principles.
At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Kuhn also served as Director of the Freshman Engineering Program (1979 – 1983, 1985 – 87) with responsibility for all academic affairs of entering students. In this capacity, he developed and taught a series of Freshman-level courses that introduced engineering analysis, design, and synthesis through problem solving experiences. He also established the University’s first microcomputer center and developed computer graphics instruction in the introductory engineering courses. For these efforts, Dr. Kuhn became the first recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (1984).
As a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University, Dr. Kuhn served as a teaching assistant and conducted his Ph.D. thesis research on the minimum gauge problem in thin strip rolling, in conjunction with the Applied Research Laboratory of U.S. Steel in Monroeville, PA.
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