I am an Assistant professor in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (IMSE) department at UTEP. My current research interests include application of smart manufacturing methodologies to improve industrial operations, quality assurance in Additive Manufacturing and Augmented Reality enhanced product validation and workforce development.

• Ph D in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso (2010)
• MS in Industrial Enginering, The University of Texas at El Paso (2003)

• Laser curing of silver-based conductive inks for in situ 3D structural electronics fabrication in stereolithography Journal of Materials Processing Technology 214 9 (2014), Amit J. Lopes, In H. Lee, Eric MacDonald, Rolando Quintana, Ryan B. Wicker.
• Three-dimensional off-axis component placement and routing for electronics integration using solid freeform fabrication Proceedings of Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX (2008), Erick DeNava, Misael Navarrete, Amit J. Lopes, Mohammed Alawneh, Marlene Contreras, Dan Muse, Silvia Castillo, Eric MacDonald, Ryan B. Wicker.
• Fabrication of a Mini-SAR Antenna Array using Ultrasonic Consolidation and Direct-Write. Sandia National Lab.(SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States) (2007), Karen M. Branch, Jeremy A. Palmer, Bernd H. Strassner, Christopher Robinson, Brent Stucker, Misael Navarrete, Amit J. Lopes, Eric McDonald, Francisco Medina, Ryan B. Wicker.
• Integrated layered manufacturing of a novel wireless motion sensor system with GPS DTIC Document (2007), Misael Navarrete, Amit J. Lopes, Jacqueline Acuna, Raul Estrada, Eric MacDonald, Jeremy Palmer, Ryan B. Wicker.
• Expanding rapid prototyping for electronic systems integration of arbitrary form (2006), Amit J. Lopes, Misael Navarrete, Francisco Medina, Jeremy Palmer, Eric MacDonald, RB Wicker.

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