Bart Raeymaekers
Professor
- Thrust Area Specialty: Design Materials & Manufacturing

469 Goodwin Hall
635 Prices Fork Road
Blacksburg, VA 24061
635 Prices Fork Road
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Research Interests
The Manufacturing and Tribology Laboratory is active in two areas: advanced manufacturing of complex mechanical systems, materials, and devices and tribology with an emphasis on micro- and nanoscale lubrication. Our research finds application in manufacturing of novel engineered polymer composite materials, micro- and nanoscale surface engineering, manufacturing of prosthetic implants, and tribology of additive manufacturing.
See Dr. Raeymaekers’ publications and research on Google Scholar.
- 08/2022 – present, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
- 07/2021 – 08/2022, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
- 10/2016 – 08/2022, Co-founder, University of Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center
- 07/2016 – 06/2021, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
- 10/2010 – 06/2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
- 10/2009 – 10/2010, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Materials Physics and Applications MPA-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2021, 2nd place Poster competition, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), Annual Meeting
- 2019, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2018, Alumni award for impact, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
- 2018, 1st place, Biological materials poster session, The Materials Science Conference (TMS), Phoenix, AZ
- 2015, Best paper award, head/disk interface tribology, ASME Information Storage & Processing Systems Conference, Santa Clara, CA
- 2014, Burt L. Newkirk Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2014, Best paper award, ASME Information Storage & Processing Systems Conference, Santa Clara, CA
- Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2007
- M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2005
- M.Sc. - Electromechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2004
- B.Sc. - Electromechanical Engineering, KaHo St. Lieven, Ghent, Belgium, 2002
- M.B.A. - Entrepreneurship/Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009