Austin Tiley

Mr. Austin Tiley is a Staff Research Engineer at The Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence in addition to moonlighting as a PhD studnet within the Welding Engineering Department. He has a great passion for the development and integration of additive manufacturing. Before joining Ohio State, Austin worked for 4 years at small businesses: Open Additive, a low-cost laser powder bed (LPBF) manufacturer, and Materials Resources LLC. At Open Additive, Austin designed, developed, assembled, integrated, installed LPBF machines. At MRL, Austin worked on materials characterization and novel alloy development. Austin was also contracted to work on-site at Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, working with the materials and manufacturing directorate.