Krishnan Veluswamy

Assistant Professor

Biography

2024 – Present :
Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department,
Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF),
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

2020 – 2024
Senior Research Engineer/Scientist,
Composites and Polymer Engineering Laboratory and CNAM Center,
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

2019 – 2020
Research Engineer / Scientist II
Composites and Polymer Engineering Laboratory and CNAM Center,
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

Fall 2016
Graduate Research Intern
Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF),
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), IACMI
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Research

• Composite Materials and Manufacturing
• Product and Process Engineering
• Composites Recycling and Sustainability
• Polymer Rheology
• Composite Characterization
• Product Design and Development
• Thermoplastic Composites in Aerospace
• Hybrid Materials
• Multi-scale, Multi-functional materials
• Scale up and Technology Commercialization

Education

Ph.D., in Materials Engineering and Science at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

M.S., in Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

B.E., in Mechanical Engineering at Anna University Coimbatore, India.

Awards and Recognitions

• Nominated for Dick Kitchen Award for Outstanding Staff Person, SDSMT, 2024
• SAMPE Technical Papers reviewer “Sustainable Technologies Recycling Circular Economy” track. 2021- Present.
• NSF GRFP Review Panelist, 2023 and 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for the Material Research panel.
• “Young Professional Emerging Leadership Award” in SAMPE 2020
• “100% completion of Mines Advantage Program” award at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, April 2019
• “Honorable mention” in graduate poster competition organized by Sanford Research Center, July 2018
• Placed 2nd in sandwich composite bridge competition at SAMPE Long beach conference on May 2018
• “International University Leadership Experience Award” in SAMPE Long beach conference, May 2018
• “Mines Advantage 2018 Recipient” award at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, April 2018
• “Outstanding Graduate student” MES Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, April 2016
• First Place in Engineers Make Great Entrepreneurs Speaker Series and Scholarship Competition on March 2014
• Best Team of the Year Award in TRUE Leadership retreat, organized by International Students, Inc, February 2013
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Publications

• Chandler P John, Thalakkottor J Joseph, P Veluswamy N. Krishnan, Kahler Davin, Welling Orian, and Salem R David, “3D Printing a Tortuous Network for use as a Heat Exchanger” CAMX Technical paper, 2024.
• Coughlin Daniel, Ginder Ryan, Gruskiewicz Michael, Hartman David, Ludwig Charles, Ozcan Soydan, Salem R David, Stevenson Paula, Tekinalp Halil, Vaidya Uday, P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Wasti Sanjita, Zhao Xianhui, “Process and Applications Development for Recycled Mixed-Stream Composites”, osti.gov, United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.2172/1874644
• Schmid D Eric, P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Andrew M Klose, James E Fesmire, Salem R David, “Graphene Nanoplatelet Reinforced Thermally Insulating Microchannel Foam”, - SAMPE neXus 2021.
• Schmid D Eric, P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Andrew M Klose, James E Fesmire, Salem R David, “Microchannel insulating foams comprising a multifunctional epoxy/graphene-nanoplatelet nanocomposite”, Polym. Eng. Sci. Mar 2022, 1.
• Yeole Pritesh, Alwekar Shailesh, P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Kore Surbhi, Hiremath Nitilaksha and Vaidya Uday, Theodore Merlin, “Characterization of Textile Grade Carbon Fiber Polypropylene Composites” Polymers and Polymer Composites. July 2021:652-659.
• Schmid D Eric, P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Salem R David, “Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Microchannel Insulating Foams Comprising a Multifunctional Epoxy/POSS Nanocomposite” – Polymer Composites. Aug 2020, 41. 10.1002/pc.25772.
• P Veluswamy N Krishnan “Investigation of Draw-induced Fiber Orientation in Discontinuous-fiber Thermoplastic Composite Sheets and Development of Post-process Drawing Technique”,  South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, 2019.
• P Veluswamy N Krishnan, Salem R David, Robinson J Marc, Brady Andrew, Mannhalter Bert, “Structure and Properties of Thermoplastic Composites Incorporating Recycled Fibers”, CAMX Technical paper, 2018.