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Justin Wenning Fabrisonic
Wenning is responsible for building next generation hardware, especially radiation shielding test components.
A Fabrisonic engineer has been named in Forbes Magazine’s sixth annual 30 Under 30 list for his work in the manufacturing industry.
Justin Wenning focuses on metal 3D printing at the manufacturing firm, working on building radiation shielding test components for satellites, while leading NASA projects considering the capabilities of heat exchanger design and fabrication.
The 24-year-old has worked at Fabrisonic since January 2015 as a production welding engineer for Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing processes. In this role Wenning is responsible for building next generation hardware, especially radiation shielding test components, but also overseeing the research and development of welding processes, CNC programming and machining for 3D-printed part production, and the 3D printing of custom designed metal matrix composites for the integration of smart materials.
Wenning’s career in engineering started in his mid-teens, working as a service technician apprentice for Ray’s Refrigeration Inc., a heating and ventilation contractor based in Coldwater, Ohio. By the time his apprenticeship came to an end, after over four years, Wenning had started his Bachelor’s Degree in Welding Engineering at the Ohio State University.
Before graduating in 2015, Wenning had secured two more internships. The first, in 2013, as a Mechanical Engineer at Wayne Trail Technologies, and the second, a year later, at John Deere: Construction & Forestry Division at Dubuque Works. His senior design project during his final year at Ohio State was on ultrasonic plastic welding of semi-crystalline Valox 325 to investigate the effects of weld parameters on bond strength for various Energy Director designs.
Forbes’ 30 Under 30 includes 30 honourees for each of its 20 categories that make up the list. All under 30 years of age, the honourees have been vetted by a panel of judges in their respective fields. In July 2016, Wenning was featured in the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s (SME) 30 Under 30 Future Leaders of Manufacturing.
