Chris Williams is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Engineering Education. He is the Director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory and the co-director of Virginia Tech's Center for Innovation-based Manufacturing. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee and has received the two most prestigious awards for a young researcher in the field of additive manufacturing. Chris will discuss how the limitations of traditional manufacturing methods have been overcome with his talk "Disruptive Design via Additive Manufacturing."

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