UC additive manufacturing team wins Outstanding Paper Award
University of Cincinnati professor Sam Anand and his co-authors recently received an award at the 47th annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference for their paper titled “CAD-Based Design and Pre-processing Tools for Additive Manufacturing.”
The three co-authors are UC graduate students of Anand’s – Botao Zhang, Archak Goel and Omkar Ghalsasi.
Their paper demonstrates UC's commitment to research as described in its strategic direction called Next Lives Here.
UC professor Sam Anand and his co-authors accept the Outstanding Paper Award from the North American Manufacturing Research Conference. Pictured are Livan Fratini, left, Ph.D., NAMRI/SME Scientific Committee Chair, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; Albert Wavering, Chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Botao Zhang, Ph.D. student working with Prof. Anand in the area of Additive Manufacturing; Archak Goel, recently graduated MS student working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Additive Manufacturing modeling; Sam Anand, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Siemens Simulation Technology Center; Hitomi Yamaguchi Greenslet, Dr. Eng., NAMRI/SME President, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
The award-winning paper discusses computational geometry-based algorithms for creating optimal supports and performing analysis for calculation of different additive manufacturing parameters and Design for Additive Manufacturing features on the fly, leading to a new producibility metric for optimizing part builds for metal additive manufacturing processes. The algorithms are deeply integrated with Siemens NX modeler and provide input to designers on downstream manufacturability problems during the early design stage.
The group’s work connects ongoing innovation in additive manufacturing, partnerships with Siemens PLM, Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, GE Global Research, and TechSolve.
Anand has been a professor of mechanical engineering at UC since 1990. He also serves as the director of the SIEMENS Simulation Technology Center. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in industrial engineering from Penn State University after graduating with a master of engineering and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and the University of Madras, respectively.
The three co-authors are already building impressive careers of their own.
Goel is employed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and is working on additive manufacturing research. Ghlasasi is employed as a graduate intern in additive manufacturing at SIEMENS in New Jersey. Zhang is pursuing his Ph.D. work with Anand on Additive Manufacturing and is involved in developing additive manufacturing apps for SIEMENS.
For more information current work and future opportunities in additive manufacturing, visit the department of mechanical and materials engineering website.
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