8/25/2025 Welcome to MTL, James Passmore!
8/10/2025~8/13/2025 MTL attending SFF 2025 conference in Austin, TX
Dr. Xu chaired the Defense Manufacturing session at the conference for the second time (following SFF 2024), drawing an audience of over 80 attendees.
7/25/2025 MTL hosted a 3D printing summer camp, four junior high school students completed the online training and hands-on activity in MTL.
7/10/2025~7/13/2025 MTL attending ASME SHTC/ES 2025 conference in Denver, CO
Glad to meet Dr. Gang Chen and Dr. Zhiwen Ma in the conference!
6/3/2025 We are glad to host Dr. Yan Wei from University of Hong Kong to visit UH. Her seminar talk about engineering education was very inspiring!
5/5/2025 Dr. Xu and Mathew Farias attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new manufacturing center at UTRGV. This program is part of our AAF consortium, we look forward to further expand the R&D capability at South Texas!
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the entire AAF team visited the SpaceX manufacturing facility at Boca Chica. Great to meet former student and MTL alumnus Shaddi at the site.
4/22/2025 Dr. Xu was invited to present at the annual workshop of Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing (CAAAM) at University of Northern Texas. After the workshop, Dr. Xu visited the CAAAM center.
4/18/2025 It was our great honor to host Dr. Ranga Pitchumani from Virginia Tech to visit UH and deliver a great talk at ME's graduate seminar.
4/4/2025 Dr. Xu was invited to present MTL's research work at the ME department's graduate seminar at UNLV! Dr. Xu also visited their solar thermal testing facility with Dr. Yi-Tung Chen.
3/17/2025 Dr. Xu attended ARPA-E summit at DC for the collaborative work with Dr. Jeremy Cho at UNLV.
3/9/2025 ~ 3/12/2025 Lichang Zhu attended the TFEC 2025 conference at George Washington University in DC, and presented his work on deep learning of naturally inspired porous structures for heat transfer enhancement.
3/7/2025 We hosted the first inaugural Manufacturing Event in the ME department, sponsored by AAF consortium.
1/13/2025 MTL group picture in Spring 2025!
1/13/2025 Welcome to MTL, Saurav Maraseni!
12/19/2024 Congratulations to Hannah Santina for winning the UH 2025 Energy Scholar!
12/16/2024 2024 MTL holiday party! Thank eveyone's efforts in 2024!
12/15/2024 Congratulations to Dr. Xu for winning the 2025 NSF CAREER award! The goal of this CAREER research is to integrate experimental and numerical methods to elucidate the complex, multiscale dynamics of laser-induced bubbles in shear-thinning hydrogels and the mechanisms driving hydrogel jet formation. The findings from this research will lay a theoretical foundation for advancing next-generation 3-dimensional printing technology for multifunctional soft materials.
More details about this project can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2441995&HistoricalAwards=false
11/24/2024 ~ 11/26/2024 Dr. Xu is attending the 2024 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
During the event, Drexel alumni gathered to celebrate Dr. Ying Sun’s recognition as an APS Fellow.
After the conference, Dr. Xu visited Dr. Tianli Feng’s lab at the University of Utah.
12/11/2024 Congratulations to Lichang Zhu on passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!
11/20/2024 MTL lab alumini reunition in Portland! It has been a long time since Hermes Chirino's graduation from UTRGV in December 2017.
Note: Hermes is the first graduate in MTL.
11/17/2024 ~ 11/21/2024 MTL attending ASME IMECE 2024 conference in Portland, OR.
After the conference, Dr. Xu and Dr. Rauniyar visited Dr. Nicholas AuYeung's lab in Oregon State University.
10/25/2024 Welcome to MTL, Hannah Satina!
10/11/2024 Starting in Fall 2024, MTL will have an AI Lunchen meeting every other Friday. Everyone is welcome to join this meeting. Free snacks will be provided.
10/3/2024 Congratulations to MTL! Dr. Xu's proposals to DOE Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) SIPS program are selected for award negotiation!
9/16/2024 MTL group picture in Fall 2024 at UH
9/6/2024 We are hornored to host Dr. Min Pack from Baylor University to visit MTL!
8/19/2024 Welcome to MTL, Bowen Fan and Ehtan Bylsma!
8/29/2024 Congratulations to Shuqi Zhou and Mathew Farias on passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam and becoming Ph.D. candidates!
8/12/2024 MTL attending SFF 2024 conference in Austin, TX.
7/15/2024 ~ 7/17/2024 As the conference chair of the ASME Energy Sustainability (ES 2024) conference,
6/17/2024 The latest UH news about Dr. Xu's participation in an ARPA-E-funded project for the decarbonization of iron and steel production.
3/7/2024 Congratulations to MTL! As a key member in a team led by Dr. Jeremy Cho at UNLV, Dr. Xu's project is funded by ARPA-E to develop technology to use electrowinning to convert pulverized iron ore into pure iron that is deposited on a cathode. The goal is to create a laboratory-scale prototype of an impeller-accelerated reactor that maintains the production of one kilogram per hour of over 95% pure iron for 100 hours. The total award amount is $2,102,353. More details about ROSIE program can be found:
3/4/2024 Welcome to MTL, Mohammad Moiz Nadeem!
2/8/2024 We are hornored to host Dr. Ruey-Hung Chen from University of Maryland Baltimore County to visit MTL!
2/7/2024 The latest UH news about Dr. Xu's participation as a key member in a DoD-funded American Additive Foundry (AAF) consortium.
More details about the AAF consortium can be found here: https://www.americasadditivefoundry.org/about/index.htm
1/11/2024 Congratulations to Santosh by winning his first internal grant at UH. The project will develop a machine-learning algorithm to optimize the additive manufacturing process using Direct Energy Deposition (DED) and eventually improve the solar absorption of receiver materials.
1/16/2024 Welcome to MTL, Xianzhong Chen!