Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing Laboratory

We develop novel material processing and manufacturing methods for emerging applications
in health care, aerospace, automotive, and renewable energy industries

                                             Taken after a group meeting, Oct. 2009

Current members:  

• Dr. Wei Li, Associate Professor, Principal Investigator

• Dr. Peng Wang, Visiting Scientist

• Jeremy Barker, M.S. student

• Emmanuel Cua, M.S. student

• Yongha Kim, Ph.D. student

• Jordan Lee, M.S. student

• Liang Ma, Ph.D. student

• Changchun Zhou, Ph.D. student (joint program with Sichuan University)

Positions Open

Alumni:

• Nick Vaccaro, M.S., 2009, currently Law School student at U of Washington
  Polyetherimide Carbon Nanofiber Nanofoamed Nanocomposites

• Hai Wang, Ph.D., 2008, currently Research Scientist at Thermofisher Scientific
  Fabrication of Hierarchically Structured Porous Polymers using Selective Ultrasonic Foaming

• Xiaoxi Wang, Ph.D., 2007, currently Research Scientist with MicroGreen, Inc.
  Solvent-free Fabrication of Tissue Engineering Scaffold using Ultrasound, co-chair: V. Kumar

• Nick Kaltsas, M.S., 2007, currently on military duty in Greece
  Study on Kink Problems of Blood Vessel Prosthesis

• Jun Xu, Ph.D., 2006, currently Manufacturing Engineer with Genie Industries, Inc.
  Dynamic Thermal Tensioning for Welding Induced Distortion Control 

• Maxwell Chor, 2005, currently Engineer with The Boeing Company
  Design and Analysis of a Permeability Measurement System for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

• Tarun Khosla, 2005, Software Engineer
  Energy Consumption and the Effect of Current Waveform on Resistance Spot Welding

• Juntae Lee, 2003, currently Ph.D. student at UC Davis
  Modeling and Experimentation of a Resistance Soldering Process using Computer Design of Experiment

• Jeff Kirkham, (Co-Chair with V. Kumar), 2003
  Modeling and Control of Recycled Plastic Lumber Process

• Sravani Pakala, (Co-Chair with V. Kumar), 2003
  Development of a Gas Permeability Measurement System for Microcellular and Nanocellular Polymeric Films

• Zhen Wang, Graduate Research Assistant, 9/2008-6/2009

• Zhe Xu, Graduate Research Assistant, 2008

• John Chandler, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2009

• Jeffery Bigel, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2006

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