Craig A. Blue
Advanced Manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Role
- Ornl Chief Manufacturing Officer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Location
- Oak Ridge, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Craig A. Blue
Dr. Craig Blue is the Defense Manufacturing Program Director for the National Security Science Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL’s Advanced Manufacturing Program capitalizes on ORNL’s world-class user facilities such as the Spallation Neutron Source, Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Building Technologies Research and Integration Center, Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), and the National Transportation and Research Center. The Advanced Manufacturing Program played key roles in the initiation and support of both the MDF and CFTFA visionary leader and team builder with a 25-year record of success in creating and building applied research and development teams and programs in materials, manufacturing, energy, and national security at ORNL. Initiated, led, or programatically enabled 10 major initiatives, hubs, and institutes that leverage ORNL’s basic and applied capabilities to address US materials and manufacturing challenges. He was the founding director of the MDF and the founding CEO of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI).IACMI was originall a $260M Institute, recently renewed for a second 5 years, within the White House Manufacturing USA initiative comprising of a public-private partnership to increase domestic production capacity, grow manufacturing, and create jobs across the US composite industry with approximately 130 members. He has more than 25 years of experience in conducting research in materials and manufacturing technologies, has authored approximately 100 open literature publications, holds 28 U.S. patents, and has received numerous awards including 11 R&D 100 Awards. He has served by invitation on numerous scientific and technical review panels, committees, and convocations convened by the National Science Foundation, the Council on Competitiveness, Manufacturing USA, National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and testified at the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing on Advanced ManufacturingHe is a Battelle Distinguished Inventor, Fellow of ASM International, Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and has held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Tennessee, University of North Texas, the Colorado School of Mines and was selected by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers as one of the “25 leaders transforming manufacturing”.
Experience
Ornl Chief Manufacturing Officer
Apr 2024 — Present · Oak Ridge, TN, US
Education
University of Cincinnati
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science and Engineering
1990 — 1994
Skills
- Science
- Electrochemistry
- Research
- Leadership
- Technology Innovation
- Characterization
- Nanomaterials
- Spectroscopy
- Afm
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Nanotechnology
- Powder X-Ray Diffraction
- Physics
- Coatings
- Polymers
- R&D
- Materials Science
- Thin Films
- Engineering
- Renewable Energy
- Chemistry
- Matlab
- Experimentation
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Strategic Partnerships
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