Professor Chad Duty has been named the next CEO of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The appointment will become effective April 1, 2023.
Duty is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering within UT’s Tickle College of Engineering and a joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
“I’m excited for this opportunity to build upon IACMI’s accomplishments over the last several years. We have a great team and outstanding partners who are pursuing highly innovative approaches to advanced composites that will help to secure the future of American manufacturing,” said Duty.
IACMI—The Composites Institute is a 130-plus member community of industry, universities, national laboratories, and federal, state and local government agencies working together to accelerate advanced composites design, manufacturing, technical innovation and workforce solutions to enable a cleaner and more sustainable, more secure and more competitive US economy.