Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
| Phone: | 848-445-1099 |
| Fax: | 732-445-5467 |
| Email: | ozel@rutgers.edu |
| Office: | CORE Building, Room 208 |
Dr. Tuğrul Özel's research programs focus on advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, precision machining, laser materials processing, computational modeling and optimization of advanced manufacturing processes, and development of innovative micro/nano devices, processes, and integrated systems. Dr. Özel has established an internationally recognized research program in the machining of advanced materials such as titanium and nickel-based superalloys. His other work has focused on laser processing of polymers and ceramic materials for microfluidics and microelectronics applications, micro-manufacturing of polymer microneedles for biomedical device applications, and most recently laser powder bed fusion based additive manufacturing of nickel-based superalloys for aerospace applications.
Dr. Özel has published three edited books; Intelligent Machining (2009), Micromanufacturing: Design and Manufacturing of Micro-Products (2011), Biomedical Devices: Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing (2016). He holds a patent on Polymer-Based Micro-Needle Array Design and Fabrication for Drug Delivery. He published over 135 articles in leading journals and conferences. His journal articles received high number of citations and his current author h-index is 27 in SCI-Web of Science, 29 in SCOPUS, and 36 in Google Scholar databases respectively. He has been on the scientific committee of over 50 international conferences, chaired numerous conference sessions, delivered keynote and planetary papers.
Dr. Özel's research has been well funded (over $1 million as sole or lead-PI) by the National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce-NIST, NASA/New Jersey Space Grant Consortium, and industry. Current research projects include additive manufacturing using laser powder bed fusion, precision/micro-machining of advanced metal alloys using novel tooling, predictive modeling of machining induced surface integrity, laser materials processing of polymers and semi-conductor materials and computational modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes. He has graduated 6 Ph.D. and 15 Masters students, and supervised 11 visiting students and many undergrad projects in these areas.
Dr. Özel is a senior member of SME, ASME, NAMRI and Associate Member of CIRP-International Academy for Production Engineering. He received three major NSF Grant Awards as sole or lead-PI, the Most Cited Articles Awards from Elsevier where his articles appeared several times in The Journal of Materials Processing and The International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, the Best Paper Award at the 8th CIRP MMO Workshop in 2005, and the Machine Tool Technologies Research Foundation Award in 2008.