Craig Brice, PhD

Craig A. Brice is the Ben Fryrear Chair for Innovation and Excellence and Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA. He is currently Director of the Additive Manufacturing interdisciplinary graduate program at Mines and a board member of the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) Center and the affiliated ADAPT industry consortium. Prof. Brice has been working in additive manufacturing for over 20 years including time spent at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works), Lockheed Martin Space Advanced Technology Center, and NASA Langley Research Center. His work over the years has focused on alloy development, process monitoring and feedback control systems, and qualification/certification. He has contributed to over two dozen technical journal publications and has 12 issued US patents. He holds adjunct professor appointments in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Monash University, and in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University. Prof. Brice has a BS in metallurgical engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology, an MS in materials science and engineering from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Canterbury.