Student Poster Challenge Winner Details Her Work

Bhuvi Nirudhoddi, an Ohio State University PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, won the student poster challenge at SME's AeroDef manufacturing conference in California in March. She gives Advanced Manufacturing Now the 411 on her work—"Joining of aerospace alloys using high-speed impact welding"—and explains how she came up with the concept, as well as where she thinks it can make the biggest impact?