Principal AM Engineer
GKN Aerospace
Leon has both an academic and professional background with metallic additive manufacturing. Leon has been in the professional R&D aerospace work force for 9 years. Leon received his Masters of Science in Manufacturing Engineering in 2019 from Missouri University of Science and Technology.
In the professional world, he has lead the industrialization of one of the world's largest laser wire directed energy deposition (DED) cells. The process maturation has been on the precipice of what's possible with laser wire DED. Leon is currently working with US defense airframe OEM's and DoD end users customers to push the technology into adoption reducing foreign depencies on long lead time casting and forgings; supporting the warfighter.
Leon is the Principal Engineer at GKN’s Global Technology Center in the Fort Worth Texas area. He leads the engineering team managing three large-scale laser wire DED cells. The team executes internal research projects as well as funded customer work and collaborative research projects.
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Laser Metal Deposition with Wire (LMD-w) Ti-64 Allowables for Aerostructure Applications
Thursday, April 16, 2026
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time