
Governors Chair

Suresh Babu
Advanced Manufacturing
Appointed 2013
Suresh Babu is a materials scientist who explores the production, design, and performance of transforming materials into parts.
His research helps widen the scope of advanced manufacturing and additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, which is the process of adding successive layers to make a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model.
Babu is director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. He also serves in UT’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering as well as the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Email
UT sbabu@utk.edu
ORNL babuss@ornl.gov
Phone
UT 865-974-5184
ORNL 865-946-1270
Address
UT
407 Dougherty Engineering Building
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210