Dr. Jason Carroll is the Vice President of Global Technology reporting to Eaton’s EVP/CTO. In his role, he leads a global organization of over 300 engineers and scientists in North America, Europe, and Asia, pushing the state-of-the-art in next generation, intelligent power systems, across the entire Eaton enterprise with innovations at the intersection of additive manufacturing, materials science and digital design methods. Dr. Carroll holds a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical and materials engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MS and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Carroll started his professional career at Textron in aerospace propulsion, where he served in several positions of increasing responsibility, including Director of Component Technology and Production Engineering. Later, he worked at Rea Magnet Wire as Corporate Technical Manager and then General Manager of a wire extrusion business, moving to Eaton as a Sr. Manager in 2016. He is a certified Master Black Belt in DFSS, DMAIC, and Lean.
Talk title: Immortal machines
Voxel-based digital design combines frontiers in additive manufacturing, computational materials science, artificial intelligence, and optimization to achieve environmentally resilient and "immortal" machines. Computational materials science opens up degrees of freedom for optimization at length scales from microns to meters. Additive manufacturing allows for similar multi-scale optimization. Simultaneous co-optimization across these length scales for both geometry and material response can open up new vistas for radical new product designs that are more sustainable and responsive to their environment in such a way as to extend their useful life.