Osama Habbal, a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, successfully defended his dissertation titled "Modeling and Sensing for Control of 3D Printing: Examining the Roles of Buckling and Heat Transfer in Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)".
Dissertation Committee:
Dr. Christopher Pannier (Mechanical Engineering, chair)
Dr. Lei Chen (ME)
Dr. Pravansu Mohanty (ME)
Dr. Abdallah Chehade (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering)
Dr. Zhen Hu (IMSE)
Mr. Habbal (soon to be Dr.) has accepted a position in the semiconductor industry following graduation. Congratulations and well done!
Sustainability Center faculty member Dr. Christopher Pannier's entry was selected as the winner in the Open Data Track of the "LIFT Materials Characterization Challenge". The challenge was hosted by the LIFT public-private partnership in Detroit. The entry proposed the use of an advanced mass spectroscopy and imaging technique in the center's work on sustainable steelmaking and metal additive manufacturing to see chemical defects spatially across 3d printed parts and to analyze defect depth through layers of laser ablation. For more, see the Exum Instruments LinkedIn post about contest results and data analysis.
The Sustainability Center was awarded a new 18 months, $1.65 Million grant from DoD, US Army/GVSC. Their project, titled "Digital Enterprise Technology for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle" advances digital design and sustainment efforts for the US Army's Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicles. This brings the total funding for center research to $5.2 million.
Osama passed his dissertation proposal exam with a talk titled "Physics Informed Data Driven Models for Control of Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D Printing Process" and we look forward to his PhD defense in the spring semester. Way to go!