The Center for Business and Engineering of Additive Manufacturing (BEAM Center) is an interdisciplinary organized research unit at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville established to facilitate collaboration both among researchers at UTK and in professional, industrial, and governmental organizations. The BEAM Center focuses on the investigation and research into the area of Additive Manufacturing (AM) which currently stands poised to revolutionized business and engineering via supply chain and logistics, and reliability and maintainability engineering, respectively.

Collaboration and Organization

The BEAM Center consists of faculty members from three UT units:

• Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department in the Tickle College of Engineering (TCE),
• Business Analytics and Statistics (BAS) department in the Haslam College of Business,
• Engineering Management (EM) program at the UT Space Institute (UTSI).

Together these units serve as the connection point for collaboration with other organizations.

You may contact the BEAM Center directly via email at beam@utk.edu. Affiliated faculty members' contact information can be found below.

• Dr. Mingzhou Jin, Director of BEAM Center
  BEAM Area Leader for Supply Chain Management
  Email: jin@utk.edu
• Dr. Bogdan Bichescu, Deputy Director of BEAM Center
  Email: bbichescu@utk.edu
• Dr. Oleg Shylo, BEAM Area Leader for Reliability and Quality
  Email: oshylo@utk.edu
• Dr. Sean Willems, BEAM Area Leader for Inventory Management
  Email: swillems@utk.edu
• Dr. Andrew Yu, Engineering Management for UTSI
  Email: ajyu@utk.edu
• Taner Cokyasar
  PhD Student
• Jeremy Hale
  PhD Student
• Huseyin Kose
  PhD Student
• Rui Li
  PhD Student