Joseph Blackman earned his bachelors of science in chemical engineering from the University of Alabama in 2010. He has 12 years of experience in production optimization with 8 years of experience in material processing, 7 of which dealt with high-temperature materials. He has first-hand experience producing high-temperature materials in additive manufacturing using molten salt electrodeposition, plasma spray, and direct metal laser sintering. He has applied his experience in high-temperature materials to DoD, NASA, and DoE projects with the majority of his materials experience applied to propulsion and hypersonic bodies. He has 8 years of experience working on the design, analysis, testing, and production of various propulsion systems including monopropellant liquid rockets, controllable solid propellant rockets, and large solid propellant rockets.
