Dr. Lennon is a principal staff scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who applies his expertise in the micromechanics of material deformation to characterization, selection, failure analysis, and design of engineering materials. His current projects include developing additively manufactured shape-memory alloys for use as small, lightweight, and low-power high-force actuators and shape-morphing structures. His primary area of expertise is deformation mechanics of metals, and has also done a considerable amount of work with polymers, ceramics, composites and some biological materials. Dr. Lennon has been teaching in the JHU EP Program since 2009, online since 2015, and previously taught one semester of undergraduate Machine Design in the Mechanical Engineering Department of JHU.

Education History

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ph.D, Mechanics and Materials, Johns Hopkins University

Work Experience

Principal Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications

Closed-loop superconducting materials discovery, Pogue,New, McElroy, Le, Pekala, McCue, Gienger, Domenico, Hedrick, McQueen, Wilfong, Piatko, Ratto, Lennon, Chung, Montalbano, Bassen, Stiles, npj Computational Materials, v9 n1, 2023

Closed-loop machine learning for discovery of novel superconductors, Pogue, New, McElroy, Le, Pekala, McCue, Gienger, Domenico, Hedrick, McQueen, Wilfong, Piatko, Ratto, Lennon, Chung, Montalbano, Bassen, Stiles, arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11855, 2022

Controlled shape-morphing metallic components for deployable structures, McCue, Valentino, Trigg, Lennon, Hebert, Seker, Nimer, Mastandrea, Trexler, Storck, Materials & Design, v208, 2021

Scalable laser powder bed fusion processing of nitinol shape memory alloy, McCue, Peitsch, Montalbano, Lennon, Sopcisak, Trexler, and Storck, MRS Communications, v9 n4, 2019

Quantification of Niobium Alloy C-103 Sublimation in Extreme Space Environments, Stiles, Lennon, Mooers, Donegan, Mehoke, Jacobson, 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, v42, 2018

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Instructor (2024)
  • Outstanding Instructor (2020)
  • Excellence in Teaching (2015)

Professional Organizations

ASME