Elizabeth Chang-Davidson

Assistant Professor of Design and Engineering

Exley Science Center - Complex Room 547, 265 Church Street

echangdavids@wesleyan.edu

BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS Carnegie Mellon University
PHD Carnegie Mellon University

Elizabeth Chang-Davidson

Elizabeth's research focuses on process improvements in additive manufacturing, more popularly known as 3D printing. Elizabeth’s dissertation focused on process optimization of additive manufacturing in titanium through build strategy optimization. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University, working on toolpath design and thermomechanical modeling of cold spray and wire arc additive manufacturing. Her current research projects study how to mitigate residual stress, geometric error, and build failures in a variety of metal additive manufacturing techniques and materials. 

Elizabeth Chang-Davidson received her B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Afterwards, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University working with Prof. Sinan Muftu and Prof. Ozan Ozdemir. 

Academic Affiliations

Office Hours

Tuesday 11am-noon, 3pm-4pm

Thursday 11am-noon, 3pm-4pm

Courses

Fall 2024
IDEA 170 - 02
Mechanical Design & Engineer

Spring 2025
IDEA 170 - 01
Mechanical Design & Engineer

IDEA 212 - 01
Metal Manufacturing