Seminar on

"RMIT-IIT Research Collaboration Opportunities in Additive Manufacturing & Beyond"
by Dr. Maciej Mazur, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

🗓 Date: Friday, 26th September 2025
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
📍 Venue: Mechanical Engineering Department Auditorium, second floor, ME Building

About the Talk:
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform a range of industries by enabling the manufacture of devices which were previously not possible. AM provides new opportunities to rethink old design solutions and exploit new opportunities, through a range of technical and economic advantages, including; increased design complexity, low-cost customisability, and short lead times. A range of industries have embraced AM to deliver transformative products, ranging from customised biomedical implants to highly-efficient rocket engines. RMIT University Centre for Additive Manufacturing (RCAM) is Australia's largest AM research institution focusing on advancing the frontier of what is possible with additive manufacturing. This talk will focus on the advantages of AM and the research being undertaken at RMIT, with the intention of promoting collaborative opportunities between researchers at IIT and RMIT. With new collaborative research partnerships, exciting new opportunities for long-term scientific and technological collaboration between RMIT University and IIT will emerge.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Maciej Mazur is a scholar at RMIT University's Centre for Additive Manufacturing (RCAM) and Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC) who specializes in Design and Optimisation for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM). His research focuses on the additive manufacturing of lightweight cellular materials, industrial tooling, fluid flow devices, and aerospace components for chemical, aerospace, and manufacturing applications. This work spans the design-to-performance continuum, from computationally enabling complex geometries to experimentally validating components with tailored properties. A key focus of his work is metal cellular materials fabricated via laser powder bed fusion, where he works on identifying critical geometry-property relationships and advancing functional surface engineering for applications like thermal management in hypersonic aircraft. He emphasizes designing components specifically for AM, developing patented uniform fractal flow distributors and mixer designs. His contributions also include advanced DfAM methods for industrial tooling, such as conformally cooled injection moulds and aluminium extrusion dies, integrating numerical modelling with experimental validation. Beyond structural design, Maciej enhances process development for metals and polymers, investigating alloy composition, defect formation, and void reduction, while incorporating quality engineering through automated inspection. His publications have attracted more than 3,600 citations, reflecting contributions that have helped move additive manufacturing from geometric possibility to engineered performance across structural, thermal, and chemical sciences applications.