The Academic Graduate Appointee will participate in projects supporting various Laboratory missions. Responsibilities include performing advanced manufacturing and casting, as well as modeling and simulation of heat transfer and solidification phenomena. This role involves additively manufacturing high-temperature materials, casting parts using induction or microwave heating, conducting modeling and simulations on microwave casting systems, maintaining detailed laboratory notebooks, generating and analyzing experimental data, participating in research planning, preparing reports and presentations, and providing technical support to engineers and scientists in research and development projects.