We are excited to announce that Subbarao Raikar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation (Development of Sulfur-Based Self-Terminating Process for Support Removal and Surface Finishing of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V) today.  This is an amazing day and we are extremely proud of him. Subbarao joined our group at Arizona State University as a volunteer in Fall 2017 and finished his Materials Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2018. He continued as a Ph.D. student when we moved to Colorado School of Mines in Spring 2018. Subbarao developed an entirely new, sulfur-based self-terminating etching process for Titanium alloys. His Ph.D. focused on the corrosion response of metals in sulfur and iodine-rich environments. He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation (Development of Sulfur-Based Self-Terminating Process for Support Removal and Surface Finishing of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V) on August 17, 2022 and graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.  He has published one peer reviewed journal article, has two more under review, and two more in progress.

Subbarao, we are extremely proud of you and it has been a true privilege to work with you.  You did an amazing job.