Ross Crowley

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Email Address:

rcrowley@carthage.edu

Office location:

Lentz Hall 120

Phone

262-551-6006

Professor Ross Crowley came to Carthage in 2024 from Marquette University, where he was researching the feasibility of integrating AI systems in line with industrial forging processes. His dissertation concerned the characterization of thermomechanical distortion in metal casting machine components.

Prior to his work at Marquette, Prof. Crowley worked for five years at Hydromat Inc. in the development of high-precision machining centers.

Hear from Prof. Crowley: Why engineering?

“I decided all the way back in elementary school that I really wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. Invention is creation and, even then, I realized that I love to create things. Years have a way of changing our plans, but I have progressed more or less in that direction ever since. I chose to study engineering because it is essentially the craft of functional creation: creating systems and devices to perform specific functions.”

“I also love to learn. The same elementary school days that saw me building a new invention out of Legos saw me pulling up a log to see if I could find any new bugs. I love to learn and improve, and I love watching other people learn and improve. There is no better way for me to do this than to teach engineering.”

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Marquette University, 2021
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Washington University in St. Louis, 2011
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Washington University in St. Louis, 2011

EGR 1020 – Computational Reasoning with MATLAB
EGR 3600 – Dynamics
EGR 4900 – Senior Capstone Project

Manufacturing processes, especially forging
Combined solid/fluid computational modelling

P.I. for a grant of $8,470 for a 50-ton Forging Demonstration / Experimental Press Build awarded by the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation, April 2023-May 2024
Co-P.I. for a grant of $4,400 for a Laboratory Forging Press Rebuild awarded by the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation, June 2020-May 2021
Arthur J. Schmitt Fellowship at Marquette University, 2019-2020

2023 August. “Forging Defect Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks.” Forging Industry Association Magazine, pg 79. Co-author with Joseph Domblesky, Richard Povinelli, Sida Zhang, and Philip Voglewede.
2023 February. “Investigation of Shot Sleeve Distortion and Oil Cooling in High Pressure Die Casting.” Journal of Manufacturing Processes, pg 34-44. Co-author with Joseph Domblesky and Anthony Bowman.
2022 November. “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Systems to Monitor and Predict Forged Part Attributes – Part I: Bust.” Forging Industry Association Magazine, pg 78. Co-author with Joseph Domblesky, Richard J. Povinelli, and Philip Voglewede.
2021 December. “Thermal Deformation in High Pressure Die-Casting Shot Sleeves.” Dissertation.
2020 June. “Analysis of Anisotropic Surface Topography Effects on Metal Flow: Warm and Hot Working Processes.” ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. MSEC2020-8304.