Welding Engineering at The Ohio State University

Congratulations to the Buckeye Engineers who graduated over the weekend with PhD, MS, or BS degrees in Welding Engineering. We wish you nothing but success! Thank you for sharing your journey with us.

👏 👏🏽👏🏿 Congratulations to Alan Luo for being named a Distinguished University Professor, the highest faculty honor, by The Ohio State University.

Luo has promoted integrated learning in materials processing through classroom, laboratory and simulation-based instruction. His work has enhanced light-metal manufacturing across the automotive sector and strengthened the link between materials research and industrial practice.

His collaboration with industry renders real-life projects that support career readiness and expands research pathways for Buckeye engineers. Congratulations, Professor Alan Luo.
mse.osu.edu/news/2026/05/alan-luo-named-2026-distinguished-university-professor

Here's a HUGE shout out to The Ohio State University Welding Engineering Alumni Society for providing a freshly cooked meal to the students, faculty and staff of WE. It's THE favorite Reading Day tradition each spring. Thank you!

Professor Glenn Daehn will discuss how public-private partnerships help drive breakthrough manufacturing technologies from research laboratories to industry.

He will use the US National Science Foundation (NSF) HAMMER Engineering Research Center as a case study to highlight progression, innovation, and the ecosystem that define their role in helping revolutionize American manufacturing. Registration for the virtual session ends May 4.
hammer.osu.edu/events/2026/05/american-manufacturing-resilience-discussion-featuring-glenn-daehn

Andrew Chuang of Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source will discuss using diffraction-based methods for tracking phase evolution, lattice strain, texture, and microstructural change in metal additive manufacturing.
go.osu.edu/we7895