William H. Peter

Dr. Bill Peter is the Program Director for Advanced Manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  He manages a research portfolio of over $50M annually in advanced manufacturing. Dr. Peter has over 25 years-experience in advanced manufacturing and materials research for energy and national security applications. Bill Peter was one of the founding creators and Director of DOE AMMTO’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility from 2016-2022. The MDF is the U.S. Department of Energy’s manufacturing research facility established to provide industry with affordable and convenient access to infrastructure, tools and expertise to facilitate rapid adoption of advanced manufacturing.  Under Dr. Peter’s direction, the MDF established over $1B of follow-on private funding based on the manufacturing and materials research, and has developed over a dozen new manufacturing systems, collaborating with over 250 companies. Dr. Peter has led groups of greater than 160 people in joining research, metal and ceramic processing, carbon fiber and composites, energy storage, separations, manufacturing systems development, techno-economic analysis, and additive manufacturing.  He has been the principal investigator for over 30 R&D projects including research in the areas of additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy of titanium powders, the fabrication of amorphous/nanocrystalline materials, and the processing of aluminum, magnesium, and iron-based alloys.  Dr. Peter has been author or co-author for 90 publications and has won 8 R&D 100 Magazine awards for research in the development of new composite manufacturing processes, high temperature aluminum alloys, coating solutions for large additive manufacturing, engineered additive manufacturing materials, consolidation of new titanium powders, additive manufacturing of prosthetics, development of a roll mill technology, and the development of laser-fused NanoSHIELD coatings. Dr. Peter was selected as a Fellow for SME in 2020. Dr. Peter received his B.E. from Vanderbilt University in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2002 and 2005, respectively.