Farhad Imani Wins NSF CAREER Award to Build Manufacturing Systems That Think
by Sarah Redmond. Automation dominates modern factories, but much of it still breaks when parts vary, damage is uncertain, and expert judgement is required. Farhad Imani’s project targets this failure by developing robotic manufacturing systems that can sense change and adapt in real time. A critical challenge is emerging in manufacturing: how to repair and restore […]
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Embracing Uncertainty For Stronger Engineering Systems
by Claire Galvin Many real-world systems—from materials to infrastructure—contain a mix of order and randomness, a concept known as stochasticity A few years after receiving the National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, UConn College of Engineering Assistant Professor Hongyi Xu is demonstrating how embracing uncertainty can lead to stronger, smarter engineering systems. Xu’s research focuses on a simple, but challenging, fact, which is that not […]
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UConn team wins award to test robots in the Stratosphere!
With support from the New York Consortium for Space Technology, UConn and Union College will collaborate to complete a mission for high altitude balloon testing of solid-state actuator used to augment glove functionality for astronauts, as well as a spintronic thermal sensor for space structures. Conducting high altitude balloon testing provides experiential learning to graduate […]
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MAM Alum Powers Performance at McLaren Racing
by Sarah Redmond. Abhiemanyu Sukumaran ’24 (ME) landed his dream job as a Performance Analysis Engineer at McLaren Racing after serving as president of UConn Formula SAE for two years. When Abhiemanyu Sukumaran ’24 (ENG) attended his first virtual meeting for UConn Formula SAE, he had no idea it would redefine his future. What began […]
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SoMAM Ph.D. Students Showcase Research on Sustainable Product Design at REMADE Institute Annual Meeting
First-year Ph.D. students Mohammad Mundiwala and Aidan Lawlor from UConn’s Reliability Engineering and Informatics Laboratory (REIL) are contributing to the development of sustainable manufacturing solutions through innovative research in product design and remanufacturing. Advised by Dr. Chao Hu, associate professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering within the College of Engineering, the […]
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