About the Speakers

UMass Lowell / SHAP3D Speaker will be Dr. Christopher Hansen who is the Chair of the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department and UMass Lowell Site Director for SHAP3D.

Christopher Hansen is a Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His primary topics of research are additive manufacturing, fiber-reinforced composites manufacturing, toxics use reduction, and engineering education. He is Site Director of the SHAP3D Center, a National Science Foundation I/UCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center), dedicated to the topic of 3D printing research. He is Co-Director of the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program Sustainable Water Innovations in Materials – Mentoring, Education, and Research (SWIMMER), trianing graduate students in convergent research at the topical intersection of water, materials, and sustainability. He previously served as Co-Director for Safer Materials at the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), and was a NASA Early Career Faculty (ECF) recipient.