Dr. Jonathan S. Colton
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Professor of Industrial Design
Director, Center for Polymer Processing
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: |
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Humanitarian Design and Engineering (HumDE) |
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Technologies for developing countries and resource limited environments |
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Manufacturing, Production, and Design |
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Polymers and polymer composites |
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Biomedical and Medical Devices |
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ME 4210 |
ME 4182 / ID 4011-2 |
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6222 |
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Dr. Colton came to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
at Georgia Tech in 1985, after completing his SB, SM, and PhD in Mechanical
Engineering at MIT. He serves as Director of the Institute-wide Center for
Polymer Processing. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of
Industrial Design of the College of Architecture. Professor Colton teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses in design and manufacturing. He has served
as principal researcher on projects sponsored by - among others - National
Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National
Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, NATO, Ford, General Motors,
General Electric, Schlumberger, U.S. Navy, and Lockheed-Martin Corp. He spent a
year as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. Dr. Colton serves on
the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization
(WHO).
Dr. Colton is a
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Society of
Plastics Engineers, was a Woodruff Faculty Fellow, and received the NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award, the SAE Teetor
Award, and the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. Dr. Colton
received a NASA Space Act Award. He received the outstanding paper award from
the Rapid Prototyping Journal. In 2007, he was presented the Jack M. Zeigler
Outstanding Educator Award from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a registered
professional engineer in the State of Georgia.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Ÿ "A Process for Prestaging Thermosetting Towpreg," Polymer Composites, 20:1, 132-145 (1999) (with R.W. Beck)
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"Experimental Study of
Post-build Cure of Stereolithography Polymers for
Injection Molds," Rapid Prototyping
Journal, 5:2, 72-81 (1999) (with
B.M. Blair)
Ÿ "Serviceability Considerations for the Layout of Coiled Tubing Units," Journal of Engineering Design, 10:3, 259-275 (1999) (with V. Rotundo)
Ÿ "A Process Management Strategy for Re-design: An Anchoring and Adjustment Approach," Journal of Engineering Design, 11:3,159-173 (2000) (with L.A. Dixon)
Ÿ "Evaluation of Epoxy Resins for Use in Hot, Wet Environments," Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, 39:4, 667-682 (2000) (with K. Becker)
Ÿ "A Machine System for the Rapid Production of Composite Structures," Polymer Composites, 20:1, 124-133 (2000) (with J.H. Brown)
Ÿ "Thermal Effects on Stereolithography Injection Mold Inserts," Polymer Engineering and Science, 40:6, 1360-1368 (2000) (with Y. Lebaut)
Ÿ "Failure Mechanisms in Stereolithography Injection Molding Tooling," Polymer Engineering and Science, 40:6, 1395-1404 (2000), (with A.E. Palmer)
Ÿ "Material Systems for Rapid Manufacture of Composite Structures," Polymer Composites, 21:6, 918-930 (2000) (with J. Kinard)
Ÿ "Draft Angle and Surface Roughness Effects on Stereolithography Molds," Polymer Engineering and Science, 40:7, 1581-1588 (2000) (with T. Cedorge)
Ÿ "Design Rules for Stereolithography Injection Molding Inserts," CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 30:2, 175-182 (2000) (with T. Cedorge, Y. LeBaut, and A. Palmer)
Ÿ "Open-celled Thermoplastic Microcellular Foam," Polymer Engineering and Science, 41:3, 380-400 (2001), (with B. Rodeheaver)
Ÿ "Failure of Rapid Prototype Molds during Injection Molding," CIRP Annals, 50:1, 129-132 (2001) (with J. Crawford, G. Pham, and V. Rodet)
Ÿ "Ejection Force Modeling for Stereolithography Injection Molding Tooling," Polymer Engineering and Science, 42:4, 681-693 (2002) (with G. Pham)
Ÿ "Effects of Aging on Epoxy-based Rapid Tooling Materials," Rapid Prototyping Journal, 8:4, 215-223 (2002) (with X. Ottemer)
Ÿ "Using Genetic Algorithms to Set Target Values for Engineering Characteristics in the House of Quality," Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering - Transactions of the ASME, 2:2, 106-114 (2002), (with M.P. Brackin)
Ÿ "Properties of Rapid Prototype Injection Mold Tooling Materials," Polymer Engineering and Science, 43:1, 125-138 (2003) (with V. Rodet)
Ÿ "Flexible Polymer Composite Electromagnetic Crystals," Polymer Engineering and Science, 43:4, 822-830 (2003) (with C. Marrett, A. Moulart, and A. Tcharkhtchi)
Ÿ "Sheet Metal Forming using Polymer Composite Rapid Prototype Tooling," Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology - Transactions of the ASME, 125:3, 247-255 (2003), (with Y. Park)
Ÿ "Assessment of Percolation and Homogeneity in ABS/Carbon Black Composites by Electrical Measurements," Composites Part B: Engineering, 34:7, 607-614 (2003) (with R. Ou and R.A. Gerhardt, C. Marrett, and A. Moulart)
Ÿ "Polymeric Composites for Use in Electronic and Microwave Devices," Polymer Engineering and Science, 44:3, 588-597 (2004) (with A. Moulart and C. Marrett)
Ÿ "Production and Analysis of Injection Molded Micro-Optics Components," Polymer Engineering and Science, 44:3, 564-579 (2004) (with A. McFarland)
Ÿ "Measuring the Compression of a Carbon Nanospring," Nano Letters, 4:6, 1009-1016 (2004) (with M.A. Poggi, J.S. Boyles, L.A. Bottomley, A.W. McFarland, C.V. Nguyen, R.M. Stevens, and P.T. Lillehei)
Ÿ "Production and Characterization of Polymer Microcantilevers," Review of Scientific Instruments, 75:8, 2756-2758 (2004), also Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, 10:9, August 30 (2004) http://www.vjnano.org/nano/ (with A.W. McFarland, M.A. Poggi, and L.A. Bottomley)
Ÿ "Injection Moulding of High Aspect Ratio Micron-scale Thickness Polymer Microcantilevers," Nanotechnology, 15:11, 1628-1632 (2004) (with A.W. McFarland, M.A. Poggi, and L.A. Bottomley)
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"A Method for Calculating the Spring
Constant of Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers with a Nonrectangular
Cross-section," Analytical Chemistry,
77:4,
Ÿ "Fabrication and analysis of plastic hypodermic needles," Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 29:4, 181-186 (2005) (with H. Kim)
Ÿ "Characterization of Microcantilevers Solely by Frequency Response Acquisition," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15:4, 785-791 (2005) (with A.W. McFarland, M.A. Poggi, and L.A. Bottomley)
Ÿ "Failure Analysis of Rapid Prototyped Tooling in Sheet Metal Forming-V-Die Bending," Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering - Transactions of the ASME, 127:1, 116-125 (2005) (with Y. Park)
Ÿ "Failure Analysis of Rapid Prototyped Tooling in Sheet Metal Forming-Cylindrical Cup Drawing," Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering - Transactions of the ASME, 127:1, 126-137 (2005) (with Y. Park)
Ÿ "Role of Material Microstructure in Plate Stiffness with Relevance to Microcantilever Sensors," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15:5, 1060-1067 (2005) (with A.W. McFarland)
Ÿ "Chemical Sensing with Micromolded Plastic Microcantilevers," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 14:6, 1375-1385 (2005) (with A.W. McFarland)
Ÿ "Injection-moulded Scanning Force Microscopy Probes," Nanotechnology, 16:8, 1249-1252 (2005) (with A.W. McFarland, M.A. Poggi, and L.A. Bottomley)
Ÿ "Influence of Surface Stress on the Resonant Behavior of Microcantilevers," Applied Physics Letters, 87, 053505 (2005) (with A.W. McFarland, M.A. Poggi, M.J. Doyle, and L.A. Bottomley)
Ÿ "Fatigue of Rapid Prototyped, Sheet Metal Forming Dies," International Journal of Fatigue, 28:1, 43-52 (2006) (with Y. Park)
Ÿ "Microcantilevers: Sensing Chemical Interactions via Mechanical Motion," Chemical Reviews, 108:2, 522-542 (2008) (with K.M. Goeders, and L.A. Bottomley)
Ÿ "Production of Anisotropic Dielectric Materials in Foams," Journal of Cellular Plastics, 45, 461-478 (2009) (with C. Blandin)
Ÿ "Characterization of Plastic Hypodermic Needles," Journal of Medical Devices-Transactions of the ASME, 3, 041004 (2009) (with E. Busillo)
Ÿ "Oven Melting Encapsulization of Hypodermic Needles by Syringes," Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 33:8, 616-621 (2009) (with T. Fortner, H. Wynn, and H. Heffner)
Ÿ "Magnetic Clamping Structures for Consolidation of Composite Laminates," Polymer Composites, 33:6, 951-960 (2012), (with J. Ziegenbein).
Ÿ "Effects of Micronized Rubber Powders on Structure and Properties of Polypropylene Composites," Waste Biomass Valor, DOI 10.1007/s12649-012-9166-y, 7 pages (2012), with R. Ayyer, T. Rosenmayer, and W. Schreiber)
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Georgia Institute of Technology
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
813 Ferst Drive, Room 434
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA
Phone: +1-404-894-7407
FAX: +1-404-894-9342
jonathan.colton(at)me.gatech.edu
Directions to the Manufacturing Research Center, where Dr. Colton is located in Room 434.
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