The future of advanced manufacturing in the U.S. is being built at innovative facilities that enable experimentation in process and product development. The people and organizations at these next-generation facilities are part of a collaborative effort to remove barriers of entry and create an ecosystem to build supply chains and provide a path...

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...