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Dan Backman
Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering
+1-508-831-5781; dbackman@wpi.edu
S.B. and S.M., M.I.T. 1972; ScD, M.I.T., 1975
Materials modeling & simulation, design-materials integration, heat treatment, solidification processing, and aerospace materials & processes.
Dr. Backman joined the Mechanical Engineering Department and MPI as a Research Professor in June 2005 following a 26 year career with GE Aircraft Engines. A graduate of M.I.T.,Dan held an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then joined GE in 1978 where he provided materials application engineering support and carried out research on aerospace materials and processes. More recently, he contributed to the development of the disk alloy for the NASA High Speed Civil Transport and led the DARPA sponsored Accelerated Insertion of Materials initiative at GE. At the time of his retirement from GE, Dan was the organizational leader of the Materials Modeling and Simulation section. He has served on a number of national technical committees, a corporate board, and has three patents on aerospace materials.
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