News

6/2023: Jill successfully defended her master thesis on creep property of AM aluminum alloys. Well done! She will be starting as an AM engineer in Sciaky soon! Congratulations!

6/2023: Welcome Ian, Jorge, Andrew, Sam, Austin and Oscar to our group. We will have many undergraduate students for some summer research fun.

5/2023: Jill and Haijian won the first and third place in the graduate student poster competition in mechanical engineering department, respectively. Congratulations!

3/2023: Our group traveled to San Diego and presented our research at the 2023TMS conference. Well done, folks! We also have enjoyed our time with other collaborators.

11/2022: Another year of Thanksgiving!

10/2022: Jack presented his summer research work during the Undergraduate Research Day, congratulations!

8/2022: PHD student, Haijian, joins out group. Welcome!
7/2022: Oscar presented his summer research work during the Ronald E. McNair Summer Research Symposium, congratulations!
7/2022: We have finally finished the installation and training of dynamic and fatigue testing system, thanks to Shimadzu scientific instrument.
7/2022: Our first outreach activity at the Discovery World, it is all about materials science and 3D printing.

6/2022: We have started our first NSF project on developing AM creep-resistant aluminum alloys, thanks to NSF CMMI for supporting us.
6/2022: Welcome Jack and Oscar to our group. They both are rising juniors and will have some summer research fun.
4/2022: First 3D-printing attempt using the EOSM100.

3/2022: We have finally finished the installation and training of hot isostatic press, thanks to AIP HIP.
3/2022: Jill presented her work on creep of AM aluminum alloy at 2022 TMS, Anaheim, CA.

11/2021: Happy Thanksgiving!

10/2021: The creep frame is now running thanks to Jill’s effort.
9/2021: First PHD student, Penn, joins out group. Welcome!
5/2021: First student, Jill, joins our group. She is a senior student and will pursue master degree through Marquette accelerated degree programs.
8/2020: First day of lab. A lot of cleaning needs to be done.