Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’

Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of the most pressing challenges of space […]
Posted on June 18, 2025
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