Printing the Future USF mechanical engineering alumnus Justin Nussbaum, Ph.D., shares how he’s getting an early start at building his own manufacturing company featuring a new 3D printing method he co-developed at the College of Engineering.
By Russell Nay
J
ustin Nussbaum, Ph.D., always
U.S. Department of Energy science and
isn’t a better opportunity for me out
thought he would need to finish
energy laboratory in the country.
there.”
experience and save up to reach his
“We’re working at what’s called the
Nussbaum, who received his Ph.D. in
life’s goal of starting his own company.
Manufacturing Demonstration Facility,
mechanical engineering from the USF
That was, however, before he laid
which was actually just named by one
College of Engineering, is working on
the foundation of his business in
of the presidential reports as one of the
taking his research on a new additive
the National Science Foundation’s
most advanced science and technology
manufacturing (aka 3D printing)
(NSF) I-Corps program and was later
manufacturing centers in the U.S.,”
method from the lab to the commercial
awarded an entrepreneurial research
Nussbaum said. “I get to work with
market. Called Large Area Projection
fellowship from Oak Ridge National
the world’s experts in 3D printing to
Sintering (LAPS), this new method
Laboratory in Tennessee — the largest
develop this technology, so there really
fuses 3D printing materials together
his doctorate, get industry
USF Mechanical Engineering alumnus Justin Nussbaum, Ph.D.
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