Glenn Daehn, Ohio Manufacturing Institute’s executive director and Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Ohio State, outlines how manufacturers and universities can best work together. He also provides details about the latest trends in metal forming and lightweighting.

As founding director of OMI, Daehn developed the initial mechanisms to promote and improve engineering services engagements between Ohio manufacturers and the university. He currently has leadership roles in several Ohio State manufacturing initiatives and programs related to manufacturing technology development. He is a technology leader for the national Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), a collaboration among Ohio State, EWI and the University of Michigan to develop the specific tools and skills to make research breakthroughs practical for industry’s production of parts primarily for vehicles, airplanes and other forms of transportation. Glenn is also director of the Honda-OSU Partnerships Program.

Glenn’s expertise is in impulse-based metal forming for joining, welding, cutting and forming as well as novel material processing.

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