Additive Manufacturing for Metals Reaches Forward
See a feature on Additive Manufacturing in the latest issue of Manufacturing Engineering.
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Water Repellent Discovery Could Aid Military
A powerful new water repellent may be able to keep water off military uniforms and help ships reduce drag in the water. The material recreates the superhydrophobic surface found in nature on the lotus plant, said John Simpson, senior research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
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Service & Sacrifice: Revolutionizing prosthetics for vets
Cheaper, faster, stronger-- those are the keys to a revolution in the research on prosthetics out at Oak Ridge National Lab. "Seeing what we are able to do today, I would have said, 'we're 20 years away' five years ago," said Dr. Lonnie Love who is the group leader of the Automation Robotics and Manufacturing Group at ORNL.
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Lignol Joins Carbon Fiber Consortium
Lignol Energy Corporation a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, today announced that it has become a member of the Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium...The Consortium is managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is the largest science and energy national laboratory in the US Department of Energy system.
Additive manufacturing is an industrial form of 3D printing that makes large complicated designs with very little waste.
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Webcast
200 PM - 3:00 PM EST
In this webcast, Mike Clemmer and Ken Roden of Nissan North America will discuss strategies to successfully cultivate and promote a corporate culture of energy efficiency that centers on an employee-driven energy management system and employee engagement.
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STEM Education
Introducing the next generation of engineers to the next generation of manufacturing by working with student teams from regional high schools to
create prototypes, components, and working systems for the FIRST Robotics Competition.