Leila Jannesari Ladani is an Iranian-American mechanical engineer specializing in the manufacturing engineering of additive manufacturing through laser sintering and laser melting, including the computer modeling of these processes and the mechanical and thermal reliability of the resulting products. She is a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering of Arizona State University.
Education and career
Ladani was a student of mechanical engineering at Isfahan University of Technology, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1999, and a master's degree in 2001, beginning her doctoral studies there in 2001–2002. After transferring to the University of Maryland, College Park, she earned a second master's degree in 2005 and completed her Ph.D. in 2007, under the supervision of Abhijit Dasgupta.
She held faculty positions at Utah State University, the University of Alabama, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Texas at Arlington, before moving to Arizona State University in 2019 to direct The Polytechnic School, one of six component schools of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Book
Ladani is the author of Additive Manufacturing of Metals: Materials, Processes, Tests, and Standards (DEStech, 2021).
Recognition
Ladani was the 2015 recipient of the Women In Engineering Award of the ASME Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division. She was named an ASME Fellow in 2020.
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Iranian emigrants to the United States American mechanical engineers American women engineers University of Maryland, College Park alumni Utah State University faculty University of Alabama faculty University of Connecticut faculty University of Texas at Arlington faculty Arizona State University faculty Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers