Events


  • April 19 2024

    2:30 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Narra

    "Effects of part temperature on porosity and microstructure in laser powder bed fusion of Inconel 718" with Sneha Prabha Narra, Mechanical Engineering

    Scott 6142

  • April 15 2024

    2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Narra and Webler

    "Integrated Data Collection, Storage and Retrieval to Advance the Additive Manufacturing Digital Backbone at Mill 19" with Sneha Prabha Narra, Mechanical Engineering; Bryan Webler, Materials Science and Engineering

    Scott 6142

  • April 8 2024

    2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Kumar and Narasimhan

    "Ultra Low-Latency Digital Backbone for Safe Manufacturing" with Swarun Kumar, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Srinivasa Narasimhan, Robotics Institute

    Scott 6142

  • March 21 2024

    10:00 AM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Strubell

    "Natural Language Processing for Materials Synthesis & Discovery" with Emma Strubell, Language Technologies Institute

    Scott 6142

  • March 12 2024

    9:00 AM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Agwu and Ogoke

    "Analyzing and Testing Bimetallic Additively Manufactured Structures for Tailored Thermal Expansion" with Uche Agwu, Mechanical Engineering and "Generative Deep Learning for Porosity Distributions produced during Laser Powder Bed Fusion" with Francis Ogoke, Mechanical Engineering

    Scott 6142

  • March 11 2024

    2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Taylor, Bergbreiter, and Travers

    "A Magnetic Pull System for Microscale Kanban" with Rebecca Taylor and Sarah Bergbreiter, Mechanical Engineering; Matthew Travers, Robotics Institute

    Scott 6142

  • February 28 2024

    9:00 AM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Joe-Wong

    "Resilient Supply Chains with Additive Manufacturing" with Carlee Joe-Wong, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Scott 6142

  • February 19 2024

    2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Smith, Li, Kroemer, Rubinstein, Temple, and Sadeh

    "Multi-Level Planning, Execution and Control for Robotic Assembly and Disassembly" with Stephen Smith, Jiaoyang Li, Oliver Kroemer, Zachary Rubinstein, and Zeynep Temple, Robotics Institute; Norman Sadeh, Heinz College

    Scott 6142

  • February 5 2024

    2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Li, Choset, Panat, and Fedder

    "Automatic Registration and Inspection for Conformal Additive Manufacturing" with Lu Li and Howie Choset, Robotics Institute; Rahul Panat, Mechanical Engineering; Gary Fedder, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Scott 6142

  • December 19-21 2023

    Next Manufacturing

    3D Bioprinting Workshop

  • December 4 2023

    3:30 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: O'Connor and Feinberg

    "Physics-Based Digital Twins to Guide & Optimize Embedded 3D Printing of Fiber-Reinforced Composites" with Thomas O'Connor, professor, materials science and engineering and Adam Feinberg, professor, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering

    Scott 6142

  • November 30 2023

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Jessica Zhang

    "Residual deformation learning and mitigation by design for metal component printability enhancement" with Jessica Zhang, professor, mechanical engineering

    Scott 6142

  • November 30 2023

    9:00 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: LeDuc, Ozdoganlar, Ren, and Li

    "Developing Advanced Biomanufacturing Approaches for 3D Bioprinting of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" with Philip LeDuc, professor, mechanical engineering; Burak Ozdoganlar, professor, mechanical engineering; Charlie Ren, associate professor, biomedical engineering; Lu Li, project scientist, robotics

    Scott 6142

  • November 27 2023

    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Luke Scime

    "A Scalable In-Situ Process Monitoring Software Stack using Artificial Intelligence" with Luke Scime, Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) 

    Scott 6142

  • November 16 2023

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Derya Tansel and David Guirguis

    "Aerosol-jet printing of interconnect and chip-level stiffness gradients for stretchable electronics" with Derya Tansel, postdoctoral appointee, Sandia National Lab and "Simulated annealing-based computational framework for hybrid lattice support structure design in LPBF additive manufacturing" with David Guirguis, post-doc, mechanical engineering

    Scott 6142

  • November 16 2023

    9:00 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Rowe and Seshan

    "Bringing Live Volumetric Data to Digital Twin Environments" with Anthony Rowe, professor, electrical and computer engineering, CyLab; Srini Seshan, professor, department head, computer science

    Scott 6142

  • October 30 2023

    3:30 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Flanigan and McComb

    "Cyber-Physical-Social Digital Twins for Managing Humans in Advanced Manufacturing Processes" with Katherine Flanigan, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering and Christopher McComb, associate professor, mechanical engineering

    Scott 6142

  • October 27 2023

    12:00 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    Special Seminar with MSE, MFI, and NextManufacturing

    Speaker: Ibo Matthews, Materials Science Division Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)

    Scaife Hall 105

  • October 11 2023

    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Kara and Liu

    "Inference of highly time-resolved melt pool visual characteristics in laser powder bed fusion from acoustic and thermal emission data" with Burak Kara, professor, mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. candidate Haolin Liu

    Scott 6142

  • October 6 2023

    9:00 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Islam, Fedder, and Yao

    "Aerosol Jet Printing of Self-healing Multi-functional Nanocomposites" with Mohammad Islam, professor, materials science and engineering; Gary Fedder, professor, electrical and computer engineering; and Lining Yao, assistant professor, human-computer interaction

    Scott 6142

  • September 21 2023

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    Special Seminar with NextManufacturing and Women in 3D Printing

    "Shape distortion in sintering – the result of nonhomogeneous temperature activating long-range mass transport" with Sandy Ritchie, Ph.D. candidate, mechanical engineering as well as "Simulated annealing-based computational framework for hybrid lattice support structure design in LPBF additive manufacturing" with Lisha White, Ph.D. Candidate, mechanical engineering

    Scott Hall 6142

  • September 20 2023

    1:15 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    MFI seminar: Liu and Zhu

    "Next Generation Prototyping Using Robots and Legos" with Changliu Liu, assistant professor, robotics and Jun-Yan Zhu, assistant professor, computer science

    Scott 6142

  • August 30 2023

    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET

    Next Manufacturing

    NextM Seminar: Amir Barati Farimani

    "Characterizing spatter particle dynamics through high resolution simulations, deep learning, and experiments" with Amir Barati Farimani, associate professor, mechanical engineering

    Scott Hall 6142

  • April 25 2023

    12:45 PM - 2:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Material evaluation methods for large-scale metal additive manufacturing

    With Lu Li, project scientist in the Robotics Institute; Sneha Prabha Narra, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and Howie Choset, professor in the Robotics Institute

    Scott 6142

  • April 12 2023

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Automatic generation of interactive digital twins

    With David Lindlbauer, assistant professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute; Jean Oh, associate research professor in the Robotics Institute; and Ji Zhang, systems scientist in the Robotics Institute

    Scott 6142

  • March 31 2023

    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Investigating the use of in-situ weld pool characteristics and temperature measurements for non-destructive evaluation of part quality in wire arc additive manufacturing

    With Sneha Prabha Narra, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Jack L Beuth Jr, a professor of mechanical engineering; and P. Chris Pistorius, a professor of materials science an engineering

    Scott 6142

  • March 15 2023

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Slaying the cost of ensuring safety in manufacturing without sacrificing safety

    With Srinivasa G Narasimhan, a professor in the Robotics Institute; Matthew O'Toole, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute; Aswin Sankaranarayanan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering

    Scott 6142

  • February 17 2023

    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Uncertainty-modeling and proactive planning for enhanced safety-performance trade-offs in human-robot systems

    With Changliu Liu, assistant professor in the Robotics Institute, and Yorie Nakahira, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering

    Scott 6142

  • November 1 2022

    12:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Innovating Construction Through Manufacturing: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robotically-Supported Collaborative Modular Construction

    With Daniel Cardoso Llach, School of Architecture; Jean Oh, Robotics Institute; and Dina El Zanfaly, School of Design

  • October 18 2022

    8:30 AM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    CRuMBLE [Construction Rubble Manufacturing for Building Lifecycle and Environment]: The Circular Waste Economy for Sustainable Architecture with Binder Jet 3D Printing

    With Dana Cupkova, School of Architecture; Josh Bard, School of Architecture; Robert Heard, Materials Science and Engineering; and Kenji Shimada, Mechanical Engineering

  • September 14 2022

    12:00 PM ET

    Manufacturing Futures Institute

    Soft Tactile Skins for Industrial Robots for Safer Human-Robot Interaction

    With Wenzhen Yuan, James McCann, and Changliu Liu, all from the Robotics Institute