According to the on-demand manufacturing platform 3D Hubs 2021 3D Printing Trends Report, the global 3D printing market grew by 21 percent in 2020, despite the effects of a worldwide pandemic. This growing industry is accelerating to print everything from metal to biological materials. The race is on to optimize these processes for competitive advantage.
Florida A&M University (FAMU) was one of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in late 2020 to benefit from a $5M investment from Dow Inc. The partnership enriches the Black STEM talent pipeline, and the investment is making a real difference for students like Kemah Tah.
Tah is a sophomore in chemical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and had the opportunity to work in undergraduate research as a Dow Scholar.
Lichun Li, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, is the principle investigator for a new grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the modeling method of dynamic systems based on partial system information and limited number of experiments.
The High Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) is a “village” that utilizes the talents of its multidisciplinary researchers to create and refine cutting-edge materials to revolutionize science and commerce. It’s also the main research center for the FAMUFSU College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME).
The NAI announced Zhiyong Richard Liang, director of the High-Performance Materials Institute, would be a part of the 2021 class, which will be inducted in June 2022. Liang holds 36 patents for his work with carbon nanotubes, new methodologies for creating useful nanotube films and composite materials, high-strength nanocomposites and energy devices.