Learn more about the Manufacturing USA network of institutes and the real-world results their work delivers every day.
On Veterans Day, we thought it important to reflect upon the significance of the holiday and the role our work plays in supporting the men and women who served their country honorably. Military members who raise their hand and pledge to defend the freedom’s we enjoy endure great risk. For too many, this risk of harm becomes a reality. ARMI |...
NextFlex, a Manufacturing USA institute focused on flexible hybrid electronics, hosted five high school interns for six weeks this summer in partnership with the Silicon Valley Organization’s Strive Internship program. Students came from a variety of schools across the San Jose Unified and East Side Unified High School Districts, representing grade...
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI) team visited the NIST headquarters of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office and shared their incredible history and journey. WPI is a member of eight of the 14 Manufacturing USA® institutes, making it a crucial educational leader and force in the national mission of Manufacturing USA to enhance...
ARMI | BioFabUSA, a Manufacturing USA institute, believes that is important to foster interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for children of all ages. As evidence of this belief, ARMI is active at high schools and is working to spread awareness about the potential for career opportunities in the emerging fields...
NIIMBL, a Manufacturing USA institute, continues to build momentum toward new, innovative biomanufacturing technologies.
That momentum was on display at the National Meeting as Dr. Dhinakar Kompala of Sudhin Biopharma Co., an early member, showed off the company’s new single-use compact settler for clarifying cell culture broth. The settler is...
Biomanufacturing is a new field that requires the knowledge of a range of disciplines including the biological sciences, biotechnology techniques and practices, regulatory requirements, legal protocols, and advanced manufacturing practices.
ARMI | BioFabUSA recently shared progress on three of the current Education and Workforce Development (EWD)...
Earlier this month, 36 students at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Jose, California completed the FlexFactor program. But, these students were not just any students – they participated in the first customized version of FlexFactor Sprint for English Language Development (ELD). These hardworking students are not only learning English, they also...
By Alireza Dayerizadeh
PowerAmerica Ph.D. Student
When I was about 10 years old, my father gave me an old shortwave radio and showed me how to tune it to receive stations from Europe and Asia.
This experience had a profound effect on me. I was in awe at how a voice could travel through thin air across the globe and be picked up by an innocuous...
For Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, IACMI is spotlighting an IACMI intern, Mary Daffron, who has interned at the Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she is also a student. Happy #GirlDay2018.
I am a junior in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee...
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REMADE is thrilled to welcome more new members! The logos below represent the broad network of REMADE members.
The REMADE Institute's newest members are: Ohio State University, University of Illinois, Colorado School of Mines, Texas Tech University, Green Blue Institute, EDX Magnetics...
The REMADE Institute has announced the selection of its first three foundational projects focused on recycling and recovery of paper, fibers, polymers and e-waste with the lead national lab and universities listed below. Read more about the projects by visiting this page on their website. Please join us in congratulating them!
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Collecting patient data at regular intervals and more frequently than, say, an annual visit, can create what NextFlex refers to as a “personal baseline” for any given patient. What is important is not one’s heart rate or blood pressure compared to a global average that blends age, ethnicity, diet, altitude, and many other factors, but rather...
FlexFactor™ by NextFlex wrapped up a very active and successful Fall 2017 semester with 13 program iterations spread across five Silicon Valley school districts and six high schools, including Westmont, Leigh, Branham, Lincoln, Wilcox, and Independence. Four-hundred twenty-five students actively participated, coming up with 80 FHE-enabled product...
As part of an AIM Photonics Academy Workforce Development Project, the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) piloted a two-unit undergraduate course called “Workforce and Internship Skills.” The class offered 28 STEM students training on topics that are essential to workplace success, but are rarely taught in college.
Credit: University...
A 9-meter wind blade prototype, fabricated and assembled at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Colorado, IACMI’s Wind Technology Area, has been selected as a finalist for the 2017 CAMX Combined strength Award. The blade will be on display at the CAMX 2017 alongside the IACMI booth. IACMI, the Institute for Advanced Composites...
