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Retired, Senior Materials Engineer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD Materials Manufacturing Technology Branch of the Weapons and Materials Research DirectorateBiosketch
Dana Granville holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from UMASS-Lowell, and is a retired senior materials engineer for the Materials Manufacturing
Technology Branch of the Weapons and MaterialsResearch Directorate at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
He has over 37 years’ experience with thermoplastic and thermosetting polymer materials and processing methods. He served as Army Principal and is past chair of the DoD Manufacturing Technology Composites Processing and Fabrication Subpanel, Army deputy of the DOD RELIANCE 21 Technical Panel for Advanced Materials, coordination chairman of the Composite Materials (formerly MIL-HDBK-17) Handbook program with the Federal Aviation Administration, and served on NASA’s National Center for
Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) executive board of governors at Wichita State University. Locally, he has served as a trustee for the Plastics Institute of America at UMASS-Lowell, nanomanufacturing industial advisory boards at Northeastern University and UMASS-Lowell, is an officer and Board of Directors member of the Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), and serves on the Journal of Advanced Materials (JAM) editorial board.