Mustafa Rifat
Researcher
Additive Manufacturing and Material Science Enthusiast
Mentor
Recent News
October, 2023: Joined Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA), Sparks, NV as a Senior Process Engineer
June, 2023: Defended my Ph.D. dissertation! Done and dusted!
May, 2023: Paper accepted in Materialia- "On the formation of pileups during nano-scratching of Inconel 718 produced using additive manufacturing"
April, 2023: Awarded the Neibel Ph.D. completion fellowship from the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State!
January, 2023: Joined Tesla Giga-factory Austin, TX as a Cell Manufacturing Intern!
September, 2022: NAMRC'22 paper is online, read it here!
May, 2022: Joined Volvo Group Trucks as Lean Manufacturing Intern!
May, 2022: Became the finalist in Millennium Cafe Pitch Competition, 2022 organized by PPG industries.
April, 2022: Won the 3rd prize in College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), 2022 organized by College of Engineering, Penn State
March, 2022: Paper accepted in NAMRC'22- "Process Monitoring: Distinguishing Defect Shapes by Strain Field Signatures".
March, 2022: Paper published in MDPI Crystals Journal's special issue 'Defects in Crystals'- Effect of Prior Surface Textures on the Resulting Roughness and Residual Stress during Bead-Blasting of Electron Beam Melted Ti-6Al-4V
February-March 2022: Attended TMS 2022 Conference in Anaheim, CA! Presented my research works in a talk titled 'Hardening Rate Dependent Deformation Behavior of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 during Nano-scratch'.
October, 2021: Won the second prize in Lab Safety Poster Design Contest organized by Materials Research Institute (MRI), Penn State, here is the poster I designed
July, 2021: Won the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), Philadelphia Scholarship!
April, 2021: Won the 3rd Prize in Graduate Exhibition 2021, Penn State showcasing my research work to general audience. Here is the video that I made!
January, 2021: Became a student affiliate of Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), Penn State!
December, 2020: Won the second prize in 'Annual Design Competition 2020' arranged by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Penn State! Here is the link of my idea!
November, 2020: Presented in IISE Virtual Conference 2020 (Title: How Roughness and Porosity affect Indentation of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718)
September, 2020: Received the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmental Fellowship, Penn State for spring'21!