John Hart

John Hart is Co-Founder and Director of VulcanForms and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). John is also Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and the MIT Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (APT). John’s research and teaching activities at MIT focus on the science and technology of production, including additive processes, automation, advanced materials, and data science. He has been recognized by the United States NSF, ONR, AFOSR, DARPA, ASME, and SME, by two R&D 100 awards, and received the MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mechanical Engineering. John created the world’s first massive open online course on manufacturing processes (MIT 2.008x on edX) and leads MIT’s online additive manufacturing curriculum which has educated thousands of engineers since its launch in 2018. He is also a Co-Founder of Desktop Metal and a Board Member of Carpenter Technology Corporation.