Overview

We specialize in the design, optimization, and assurance of of complex systems comprising multiphysic and/or multiscale features. These systems may include manufactured products, manufacturing processes, or constitutive components such as sensors and controls.

Capabilities

Engineering design methodologies such as design for manufacturing, Six Sigma, robust, and lean.
Numerical methods in Matlab and C for application program interfaces.
Multiphysics transient simulation with coupling between flow, structural, and thermal domains.
Process design, instrumentation, analysis, and control from specification through commissioning.
Mechatronic systems, mold/tool, auxiliary, and machine design.

Recent News

Multi modal sensor for temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity

The National Science Foundation funds development of an omni sensor for simultaneous monitoring of melt temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity in injection molding.

Thermal nano imprint lithography hot embossing

A thermal imprinter has been designed, commissioned, and characterized for feasibility analysis of nano/micro stamping of three port micropumps.

Preliminary design begins on split screw extruder design for improved control in micro extrusion and fused deposition modeling.

Cahn Hilliard simulation of PS, PAA, and solvent

Three dimensional, transient simulation of template driven polymer self assembly of a three phase system (PS, PAA, and solvent).

26.404, Process Control, introduces the student to the design, operation, and control of plastics processing machines as structured systems on a subsystem by subsystem basis prior to experimentation with open and closed loop control

26.576, Advanced Mold Design, guides the student and practitioner through the systematic design and operation of injection molds while also reviewing fundamental engineering concepts such as rheology, fluid flow, heat transfer, and structural analysis.

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