November 10, 2009
Yafu's paper, titled "Effect of Laser Fluence in Laser-Assisted Direct Writing of Human Colon Cell," has been selected as one of eight outstanding papers by the 2009 Twentieth International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (Austin, TX / August, 2009) organizing Committee.
These papers are designated as "SFF Symposium Outstanding Papers", selected on the basis of expert reviews of the conference paper and presentation, and the relevance of the subject matter to the field. Fewer than ten percent of all manuscripts submitted to the meeting were selected, and all these outstanding papers will be published in the Rapid Prototyping Journal (RPJ).
October 29, 2009
Dr. Yong Huang delivered a keynote talk, titled "Process Modeling and Cell Damage Evaluation in Laser-Assisted Living Cell Direct Writing," at the International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Micro/Nanotechnology (ISPEN'09) in Hangzhou, China this Oct. 29, 2009. He also introduced biomedical manufacturing as one of advanced manufacturing practices during this symposium.
October 23, 2009
Prof. Douglas B. Chrisey of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, visited the Mechanical Engineering department and CAMSIL on Oct. 22 and 23 and gave a seminar talk on his recent advanced material processing research. During his visit, Dr. Chrisey also attended Yafu's Ph.D. dissertation proposal presentation and discussed with Wei on our laser-assisted cell direct writing research.
September 19, 2009
Prof. Wen Wang of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China visited CAMSIL on September 19, 2009. During his visit, Dr. Wang also talked with some lab members about academic career development in China, especially at Zhejiang University.
July 23, 2009
Clemson University today joins nine other South
Carolina higher education institutions in a research program that offers new
hope for the thousands of individuals whose lives are threatened by organ
failure and who wait in vain for too-few available transplant organs. More
than 100,000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplants. A $20
million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) creates a statewide
alliance in the field of advanced tissue biofabrication, which could lead to
the ability to produce human organs. The award is one of the largest in the
state's history.
Dr. Yong Huang of CAMSIL will serve as a leader for the research thrust to
build a three-dimensional vascular tree, the first crucial step in the
process of fabricating complete organs. (Also see:
News report by Clemson University).
July 2, 2009
Dr. Brockman, president of SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM), and his GSSM colleagues visited CAMSIL and Susie and Beth, our two high school summer research interns. Both Susie and Beth are participating the 2009 Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI). The GSSM and an award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) support SPRI students.
May 7, 2009
On May 7, 2009 Mr. Xianglu Tang and Mr. Xiangge Tang of the Cixi Zhonghuan Machinery Factory, China visited CAMSIL regarding research collaboration and scholarship contribution. Zhonghuan Machinery has committed to a five-year scholarship support to award outstanding student researchers at the Clemson Advanced Manufacturing and System Integration Laboratory (CAMSIL) since 2006. This year marks the third yearly scholarship distribution.
Feb. 13, 2009
Prof. Peter J. Hesketh of Georgia Tech visited Clemson and CAMSIL on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. During his visit, he also gave us a seminar talk on microcantilever sensors with metal organic framework films and their packaging.
November 18, 2008
Prof. Mingxing Lin of Shandong University, China visited CAMSIL from November 18-19 and gave us a talk about his image processing and manufacturing process monitoring research.
October 17, 2008
Prof. Linyi Gu of Zhejiang University, China visited CAMSIL from October 17-19. His current research interest is the development and testing of hydraulic elements and robotics for deep sea exploration.
September 4, 2008
Prof. Takashi Matsumura of Tokyo Denki University, Japan visited CAMSIL from September 4-6. He gave us a seminar on his manufacturing research in the areas of machining, micromilling, and fabrication of functional surfaces.
July 1, 2008
Prof. Jianxin Shen of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, has joined CAMSIL as a visiting scholar since July 1. During his six-month stay with CAMSIL, he will research advanced laser-based fabrication applications. Welcomes to Prof. Shen!
June 24, 2008
Dr. Huang was selected to receive the National Instruments Outstanding Young Investigator Award at the 2008 ASME International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA 2008) in Atlanta, GA. The citation reads as follows: for contributions in manufacturing process development, modeling and monitoring, and wireless technology applications for plant floor monitoring and automation.
June 3, 2008
Prof. Min Liu of Tongji University, China, has joined CAMSIL as a visiting scholar since June 3. During his one-month stay with CAMSIL, he will research wireless sensor network applications for manufacturing plant floor monitoring. Welcomes to Prof. Liu!
May 1, 2008
Dr. Huang will serve as the Program co-Chair for the 2009 ASME International Manufacturing Science & Engineering Conference (MSEC) and the Program Chair for the 2010 ASME MSEC. The annual MSEC conference, which was part of ASME IMECE, is the main technical conference sponsored by the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division.
April 24-26, 2008
Prof. Runhua Tan, vice president of Hebei University of Technology (HUT), China visited CAMSIL from April 24-26, 2008 and gave a talk about his design research. During his stay at Clemson, he also met some Clemson officials to explore potential educational and research collaborations between HUT and Clemson.
Prof. Deqing Mei of Zhejiang University, China also visited CAMSIL from April 24-26, 2008 and gave a talk about his research on vibration applications in manufacturing.
April 8, 2008
Mr. Mason Morehead (2007 MS graduate), has been selected to receive our Outstanding Student in the Masters Degree Program Award from our department this spring. It is a significant recognition of what Mason has done as a graduate student with us. Congratulations to Mason, and we are really proud of this honor!
April 7, 2008
Leigh's art work, "The Equation Sheet," was selected for the Third Place (tie) from over 60 entries at the 2008 Clemson Science As Art competition. As Leigh shared with us, The Equation Sheet is an ode to all the governing equations that fill our minds, to our professors who have taught us how to solve and use them, and to students everywhere and all the equation sheets they have created and have yet to create. They are a work of art. Congratulations to our young artist!
February 1, 2008
The research paper coauthored by Drs. Simon Tung (GM), Yong Huang, and Mr. Dennis C. Karczynski (GM) has been selected as the Editor's Choice for the February issue of Tribology and Lubrication Technology, a leading tribology magazine by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). The paper is about an innovative polymer-based near-dry lubricant delivery system that could replace oil flooded systems while meeting environmental concerns.
January 16, 2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to CAMSIL to study cell damage and its mitigation in laser-assisted cell direct writing. If successful, this study will contribute towards an understanding of the dynamics of laser-assisted cell droplet formation and landing processes and the effects of process-induced thermomechanical loading on cell damage/viability. (Also see: News report by Clemson University).
January 16, 2008
Jun Yin has successfully passed the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exams in his selected topics of Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Engineering Mathematics. Congratulations to Jun!
September 12, 2007
Kevin Foy and Wei Wang spoke about their research progress, respectively, at the 2nd International Conference on Micromanufacturing in Greenville, SC on September 12, 2007. Kevin talked his work on the effect of tilt angle on cutting regime transition in micromilling of glass, and Wei shared his study on modeling of impact-induced mechanical effects in cell direct writing using the smooth particle hydrodynamic method.
May 23, 2007
Wei Wang's paper, titled "Numerical Study of Cell Droplet and Hydrogel Coating Impact Process in Cell Direct Writing," was selected for the prestigious 2007 NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award (third place) by the North American Research Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMRI/SME) on May 23, 2007. Only 3 out of 70 accepted paper were selected as the Outstanding Paper Award finalists by the NAMRI/SME honors committee. Congratulations to Wei!
Prof. Douglas Chrisey of RPI is the paper's co-author.
April 17, 2007
Prof. Suwan Jayasinghe of University College London (UCL) of the United Kingdom gave the lab a talk about his research on electrospraying and electrospinning on April 17, 2007.
January 12, 2007
Both Wei Wang and Yafu Lin have successfully passed the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exams in their selected topics. Congratulations to Wei and Yafu!
October 16, 2006
Based on an agreement between Mr. Xianglu Tang,
General Manager of the Cixi Zhonghuan Machinery Factory, China and Dr.
Huang, Zhonghuan Machinery has committed to a five-year scholarship support
to award outstanding student researchers at the Clemson Advanced
Manufacturing and System Integration Laboratory (CAMSIL). This support will
provide $ 1,000 annually to reward CAMSIL graduate students based on their
research performance during each year from April to March. This five-year
scholarship commitment will be evaluated for renewal after the first
five-year implementation.
Located in Ningbo, China, Cixi Zhonghuan Machinery Factory (http://www.zhong-huan.com)
is a casting-based first-tier manufacturing supplier. Staffed with more than
560 employees, Zhonghuan Machinery has its own metal casting foundries and
post-casting machining capacity and produces 1.5 thousand tons of casting
monthly. The casting products are mainly cast gray or ductile iron based
flywheels, gear cases, impellers, and different pump/valve components. Mr. Tang
visited CAMSIL from May 7-9, 2006.
October 7, 2006
Prof. Zhi Wei of Hebei University of Technology, China, has joined CAMSIL as a visiting scholar since Oct. 7. During his 8-month stay with CAMSIL, he will research mechanics and material kinetics/behavior modeling in metal cutting. Welcomes to Prof. Wei!
August 25, 2006
Lei Tang has successfully passed the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exams in his selected topics of Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Controls, and Engineering Mathematics. Congratulations to Lei!
May 22, 2006
Mr. Mason Morehead has been selected as the recipient of the 2006 Future Leaders of Manufacturing Scholarship from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation. This scholarship recognizes his achievements as well as leadership in manufacturing. Congratulations to Mason!
May 7-9, 2006
Mr. Xianglu Tang, General Manager of the Zhonghuan Machinery Factory, visited us from May 7-9, 2006. During the visit, Mr. Tang expressed his interest in sponsoring an Outstanding Researcher of the Year scholarship at CAMSIL. Zhonghuan Machinery is a Chinese tool hardware manufacturer.
January 24, 2006
Xiaoyu Wang has successfully passed the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exams in his selected topics of Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Controls, and Engineering Mathematics. Congratulations to Wang!
December 6, 2005
Dr. Yong Huang was selected to receive the 2006 SME Branimir F. von Turkovich Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Established by the Society in 1979, this award is conferred to recognize one's significant achievements and leadership in the area of manufacturing engineering as a young engineer.
October 18, 2005
Dr. Yong Huang participated the US-China Workshop on Smart Structures and Smart Systems in Jinan, China from Oct. 16-18, 2005. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Huang gave a presentation, titled "Condition Monitoring of Time Varying Phenomena in Engineering Systems", at the workshop.
August 12, 2005
The CAMSIL welcomed two visitors from Tricounty Technical College, SC on August 12, department head Mr. David F. Walker and instructor Mr. George Larry Dooley of the Tricounty Machine Tool Technology program. Both sides look forward to having collaboration on manufacturing education for the dynamic upstate region.
The Tricounty visitors also met their alumnus, Mr. Michael Justice, our machine shop technician.
June 10, 2005
Prof. Wei Sun of Drexel University, PA visited CAMSIL on June 10 during his seminar trip at Clemson University, where he was invited by the Clemson Bioengineering Department for a seminar on computed-aided tissue engineering.
May 27-29, 2005
Prof. Takashi Matsumura of Tokyo Denki University, Japan visited CAMSIL from May 27-29. He gave us a seminar on his traditional and micro/meso-scale machining research and shared his thoughts on the future of manufacturing research with the lab members.
May 9, 2005
Dr. Yong Huang and his coauthor, Dr. Steven Liang of Georgia Tech, have been selected to receive the 2005 Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award "for the paper, 'Modeling of CBN Tool Flank Wear Progression in Finish Hard Turning,' which describes an experimentally validated tool wear model identifying the basic wear mechanisms acting, and the extent of each, in the increasingly important hard turning process."
The Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award was established by ASME in 1954 for the best paper or papers clearly concerned with or related to the design or application of machine tools, gages, or dimensional instruments.
April 14-17, 2005
Prof.
Wen He of Zhejiang University, China visited CAMSIL from April 14-17, 2005. His
research expertise is the development of vibration tables for a wide
frequency range.
April 1, 2005
Dr. Sukhwan Choi of GE Energy Reliability & Safety Engineering Department (Greenville, South Carolina) visited our lab on April 1, 2005. He also gave us a talk on crack diagnosis and failure model based fatigue crack prognosis for spur gears.
February 13, 2005
Clemson University hosted the 2005 National Pi Tau Sigma Convention from February 11-13, 2005. During the lab tours organized for attendees on Feb. 11, around 40 attendees visited our lab. Mason and Wang introduced our current research, respectively, to them. Prof. Mistree of Georgia Tech, National Secretary of Pi Tau Sigma, also visited our lab on Feb. 12.
February 4, 2005
Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka of University of California at Berkeley visited the Clemson Mechanical Engineering Department and our lab on February 4, 2005. He also gave us a seminar on sensor and control technologies in the engineering of modern civil and mechanical systems. The abstract of the seminar is as follows.
Abstract:
Sensor and control technologies play a key role in the design and construction of modern engineering and mechatronic systems. Convergence of enabling technologies such as the internet, communications, information technology and miniaturization technology has elevated the research and development of sensors to a higher level. The seminar reviewed the evolution of sensor and control technologies, and examined important applications of this kind in aerospace, biomedical, civil and mechanical engineering. In addition to citing pioneering research in this area at UC Berkeley, Dr. Tomizuka highlighted recent research on sensors, controls and decision making for civil and mechanical systems sponsored by the Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS) Division of the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
August 26, 2004
Yu Long has successfully passed the tough Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exams in his selected topics of Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Controls, and Engineering Mathematics. Congratulations to Yu!
June 3, 2004
At the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)/Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) General Membership Meeting on June 3, 2004, Dr. Huang has been nominated and appointed as the Co-Chair of the Manufacturing Processes Technical Committee. This technical committee has eighteen members and covers several important areas of manufacturing such as cutting, forming, solidification, welding and joining, non-traditional manufacturing processes, nano/micro/meso-scale manufacturing, polymer processing, electronic material process. Currently, Dr. Robert Williams of University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the chair of this technical committee.
Prof. S.G. Kapoor of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign visited the Clemson Mechanical Engineering Department and our lab on April 9-10, 2004. He also gave us a seminar on micromachining research at University of Illinois during that visit. The abstract of the seminar is as follows.
Abstract:
This presentation will outline a vision for mechanically manufacturing high accuracy micro/meso-scale components and devices(102-104mm) in a broad range of materials.
It is proposed that micro/meso-scale manufacturing methods and devices, derived from their conventional macro-scale counterparts, performed on miniaturized equipment integrated in a massively parallel fashion into "micro-factories of the future" could meet the technological requirements (i.e. relative accuracy, geometric complexity, cost, etc.) and offer capabilities that are beyond those currently available.
The rationale and justification for this concept is outlined followed by a synopsis of the scientific, technological and commercialization barriers that will have to be overcome in the course of the realization of the proposed concept.
An overview of ongoing research in micromachining of multi-phase materials will also be given.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) proudly presented the Award of Most Enthusiastic Professor to Dr. Yong Huang on behalf of Clemson Mechanical Engineering Student Body on April 7, 2004.