Chukwuzubelu Ufodike, PhD, MPE, MBA

Dr. Chukwuzubelu Ufodike is an Assistant Professor and Charlotte and Walter Buchanan Faculty Fellow in the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint (courtesy) appointment in the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering. Dr. Ufodike completed his doctoral degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, at Florida A&M University (through a joint degree program with Florida State University) in May 2020. He is the Director of the Digital Manufacturing and Distribution Lab (DMD-Lab) at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). His research group (Professor Ufodike Research Group – PURG) focuses on theoretical and computational materials science, advanced manufacturing, and distribution. Dr. Ufodike’s group represents one of the world's leading teams in the field of computational and numerical modeling of the polymer flow in Fuse Filament Fabrication (FFF) Additive Manufacturing (AM).