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materials day 2023 october 26-27

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Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)

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The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced today that Christopher J. Saldaña has been selected to serve as the Director of EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO).

As the AMMTO Director, Saldaña will be charged with executing AMMTO’s mission to inspire people and drive innovation to transform materials and manufacturing for America's energy future. He will be responsible for addressing market challenges and identifying opportunities to advance manufacturing technologies and materials, as well as sustainable supply chains, to drive economic competitiveness and pursue a net-zero emission economy. These efforts will capitalize on the latest scientific advances and accelerate the transition from innovation to commercialization.

“This is an incredible opportunity to support America's leadership in clean energy manufacturing technologies, materials, and supply chains,” says Saldaña of his AMMTO Directorship. “I am very excited for the opportunity to work with the talented team at DOE and lead coordination across industry, academia, national laboratories, and other public agencies to bolster our nation's economic competitiveness and to achieve the goal of an equitable, clean energy and net zero emission economy.”

Saldaña comes to DOE from Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering where he has worked since 2014. Prior to that role, he held the Harold and Inge Marcus Career Professorship at the Pennsylvania State University and worked as a research engineer at M4 Sciences Corporation. Saldaña has also previously held visiting affiliations/positions with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the Indian Institute of Science, Technische Universität Dortmund, Autodesk, and Sandia National Laboratories. He received a B.S. from Virginia Tech in 2004, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006 and 2010, respectively.

AMMTO welcomes Dr. Saldaña to the role of Director as the office continues its work to advance materials and manufacturing for our clean energy future.

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

(e) amb961@psu.edu, (e) beese@matse.psu.edu
(o) 814-865-1523
327 Steidle Building

3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing

Professor and Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations

Strategies for Winning the Talent Supply Chain War in High-Tech Manufacturing

Innovation in locating, attracting, and retaining the workforce of the future can be equally challenging as the innovation needed to develop the products of the future. Gaining and maintaining access to star talent is what makes the difference between an organization that just survives and one that thrives. In recent years, scaled-down immigration programs to protect national borders as well as the COVID-19 pandemic effectively shut down traditional top-talent global supply chains. So how can firms return to winning the talent war? What are the key strategies that successful high-tech manufacturing firms are adopting today to be successful in this arena? Critical evidence gathered from research across multinational firms on three continents will be explored to answer these and other pressing talent questions.

Director of the Nanofabrication Lab

Liang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

(e) ovl5064@psu.edu
(o) 814-867-1575
N-321 Millennium Science Complex

CHIPS Semiconductors

Nanofabrication

Nanotechnology

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