Research efforts are supported by premier faculty and world-class laboratories equipped with comprehensive manufacturing equipment and instrumentation. These efforts are driven by industrial demand for secure, high-yield, AI- and digitally enabled manufacturing across sectors including semiconductors, aerospace, energy, and advanced materials. They emphasize operational quality, reliability, and resilience in automated and intelligent manufacturing environments. The work delivers industry-relevant capabilities in data-driven and physics-informed quality assurance, cyber-secure sensing and analytics, and robust process control for additive, material removal, and solid-state manufacturing systems. Research also advances next-generation materials production, including nano-composites and bio-derived construction materials.
Collectively, these efforts enable defect reduction, improved microstructural consistency, yield enhancement, and certification-ready monitoring: helping industry reduce risk, shorten qualification timelines, and accelerate commercialization of advanced manufacturing technologies.
Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing
Precision Manufacturing Processes
Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Nano Bio Manufacturing
Faculty
- Dr. Amarnath Banerjee
- Dr. G. Kemble Bennett
- Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam
- Dr. Guy L. Curry
- Dr. Alaa Elwany
- Dr. Richard M. Feldman
- Dr. Joe Geunes
- Dr. Jihoon Jeong
- Dr. Mark Lawley
- Dr. Jaesung Lee
- Dr. Lewis Ntaimo
- Dr. Hamid R. Parsaei
- Dr. Zhijian "ZJ" Pei
- Dr. Dinakar Sagapuram
- Dr. Donald R. Smith
- Dr. Rui Tuo
- Dr. Shiren Wang
- Dr. Shixuan Zhang