U.S. Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science and University Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Co-Director, Next Manufacturing Center
Courtesy Appointment, Mechanical Engineering
Anthony Rollett has been a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University since 1995, including five years as department head. He is the PI and co-director of the Institute for Model-Based Qualification & Certification of Additive Manufacturing (IMQCAM), which is a NASA-supported Science Technology & Research Institute. He is also the co-director of the Next Manufacturing Center on additive manufacturing.
Previously, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, he was group leader of metallurgy from 1991-1994 and deputy division director of materials science and technology for a year after that.
He has been a Fellow of ASM since 1996, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) since 2004 and Fellow of TMS since 2011. He received the Cyril Stanley Smith Award from TMS in 2014, was elected as Member of Honor by the French Metallurgical Society in 2015, and became the US Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science in 2017. He received Cyril Stanley Smith Award from the International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth in 2019 and also the International Francqui Professor for 2020-2021, from the Francqui Foundation, Belgium. In 2023, he received the International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award at the International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium.
His research group is supported by industry, several federal research agencies, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Basic Energy Science Advisory Committee and the Defense Programs Advisory Committee under the Department of Energy. His lecture notes on texture and anisotropy are widely known and used, and he started a new course on additive manufacturing and materials in 2016. He started a new master’s program in additive manufacturing in the fall of 2018.
Rollett’s research focuses on microstructural evolution and microstructure-property relationships in 3D, using both experiments and simulations. Interests include 3D printing of metals, materials for energy conversion systems, strength of materials, constitutive relations, microstructure, texture, anisotropy, grain growth, recrystallization, formability, and stereology. Relevant techniques include high-performance spectral methods in micro-mechanics, dynamic x-ray radiography (DXR) and high-energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM). Important recent results include definition of process windows in 3D printing through characterization of porosity, 3D comparisons of experiment and simulation for plastic deformation in metals, the appearance of new grains during grain growth, and grain size stabilization. He has 320 peer-reviewed journal publications with an h-index of more than 80.
1987 Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Drexel University
1977 MA, Metallurgy and Materials Science, Cambridge University
Materials Science and Engineering
The TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society) Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas highlighted the work of Carnegie Mellon faculty, students, and alumni in a number of ways.
CMU Engineering
CMU engineers and scientists undertook more than 45 research projects to develop artificial intelligence approaches to enable the use of metal additive manufacturing for the U.S. Army.
Additive Manufacturing Media
MSE's Tony Rollett was featured on Additive Manufacturing Media, where he explained why 3D printing is used to produce heat exchangers for solar energy.
CMU Engineering
Campus research experience, NASA internship, and advice from a mentor propel material science and engineering student, Lauren Fitzwater, to pursue a minor in additive manufacturing.
CMU Engineering
Three College of Engineering faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon.
Mechanical Engineering
Novel deep learning pipeline provides a low-cost, scalable alternative for manufacturers looking to monitor LPBF melt pools.
Data-driven Material Design
The Center for Data-Driven Design of Multifunctional Material Systems (D3OM2S) recently hosted 30 visitors from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
Materials Science and Engineering
MSE professor Anthony Rollett recently received the International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award at the International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium.
CMU Engineering
Six alumni were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for their groundbreaking startup companies.
CMU News
MSE’s Anthony Rollett presented research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit.
NASA
MSE’s Tony Rollett, principal investigator of NASA’s new additive manufacturing institute, talks about 3D printed metal parts that will be used for NASA’s spaceflight endeavors in climate research.
CMU Engineering
A new NASA Space Technology Research Institute (STRI) led by Carnegie Mellon University seeks to shorten the cycle required to design, manufacture, and test parts that can withstand the conditions of space travel through constructing models for qualification and certification.