Glenn Daehn, PhD, is principal investigator and director of a new $52 million National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center called “Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing, Moving from Evolution to Revolution” otherwise known as HAMMER. The Ohio State University is the lead institution of a consortium that is dedicated to quickly transitioning new manufacturing processes and technologies to manufacturers’ use. 

Glenn is the Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Ohio State and was Ohio Manufacturing Institute’s founding executive director. He has served as a leader in several Ohio State programs related to manufacturing technology development, including the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence, the OSU-Honda Partnership and the Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) Manufacturing USA Center. His research includes electromagnetic and high-velocity, impulse-based metal forming. 

He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University.