Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

Associate Head for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Materials Science and Engineering​

Director, Additive Manufacturing & Design Graduate Program

Office: 327 Steidle Building, University Park, PA 16802​
Email: beese@matse.psu.edu​

Hometown: Herndon, VA​

​Education:​

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT​
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT​
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University​

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Co-ambassador of Penn State’s Women in 3D Printing chapter

​Master’s Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2024​

Hometown: Chambersburg, PA

​Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2018​

Hometown: Dallas, TX

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Khalifa University, 2022​

Hometown: Ain W Zain, Lebanon

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Applied Physics, Binghamton University, 2020​
• B.A. in Music, Binghamton University, 2020​

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• M.S. in Materials Engineering, University of Southern California, 2020​
• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, 2017​

Hometown: Wenzhou, China

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022​

Hometown: Dunlap, IL

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• M.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019​
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2018​

Hometown: Beijing, China

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S in Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), 2021​​

Hometown: Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria 

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• M.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2024

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University, 2019

Hometown: Towson, MD

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley 2023​​

Hometown: Frederick, MD

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2020​

Hometown: Knoxville, TN

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.A. in Physics & Pre-Engineering, Slippery Rock University​, 2021
• B.S. in Civil/Structural Engineering, University of Pittsburgh​, 2021

Hometown: Burnside, Pennsylvania

Ph.D. Student​

Education:​

• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2019​

Hometown: Bolton, CT

Education:​

• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021​
• B.S. in College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, 2019​

Hometown: Suzhou, China

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Expected graduation: 2025

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Expected graduation: 2027

Hometown: Strongsville, Ohio

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Expected graduation: 2026

Hometown: Taichung, Taiwan

Degree: M.S.

Year: 2023

Thesis: Hardness of ternary W-Nb-Mo refractory high multicomponent alloys and simulation of Stress-Strain curves of pure W, Nb, and Mo through CPFEM

Year: 2021

Thesis: Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Additively Manufactured Functionally Graded Materials

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2024

Thesis: Integrated Experimental and Computational Approach for Heterogeneous Microstructures of Martensitic Functional Gradients

Postdoctoral Scholar

Degree: M.S.

Year: 2019

Thesis: Updated sublattice models of topologically close packed phases with a revised phase description of sigma phase

Year: 2019

Thesis: Investigation and characterization of stainless steel/hydroxyapatite powder composites by binder manufacturing

Degree: M.S.

Year: 2016

Thesis: Toward the Repair of Components via Additive Manufacturing: Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Single Beads and Patches

Degree: M.S.

Year: 2024

Thesis: Implementation of modified void descriptor function to predict fracture location in additively manufactured AlSi10Mg

Visiting Scholar from  Free University of Bolzano, Italy

Year: 2019

Postdoctoral Scholar

Year: 2020

Thesis: Study of process-structure-property relationships in stainless steel 316L made by powder bed fusion

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2020

Thesis: Influence of microstructure on the multiaxial plasticity and fracture of dual phase steels: experiments and multiscale computational modeling

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2024

Thesis: Predictive Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Face-Centered Cubic Metals using Multiscale Computational Techniques

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2024

Thesis: Computational materials design by thermodynamic modeling

Year: 2018

Thesis: Experimental characterization and modeling of multiaxial plasticity behavior of austenitic stainless steel 304L produced by additive manufacturing

Year: 2021

Thesis: Additively Manufactured Metals: Effect of Microstructure and Defects on Multiaxial Plasticity and Fracture Behavior

Major: Mathematics and Physics

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Aerospace Engineering

Major: Chemistry

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Major: Computational Data Science

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Materials Science and Engineering

Major: Chemistry

Major: Industrial and Applied Mathematics