Team “PECWEC,” consisting of PhD student Md. Abdul Aziz and ME professor SeungYeon Kang, has won Phase II of the American-Made Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). This achievement, which focuses on novel wave energy technology, builds on our success in winning Phase I of the challenge. The team will receive $80,000, in addition to the $15,000 from Phase I, to further develop their wave energy harvesting technology.

https://americanmadechallenges.org/challenges/indeep/results

ME 3295, ME5895 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering : Additive Manufacturing Technologies

https://catalog.uconn.edu/directory-of-courses/course/ME/3295/

https://gradcatalog.uconn.edu/course-descriptions/course/ME/5895/

This course introduces 7 different types of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) technologies based on ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) standards; Powder bed Fusion, Binder Jetting, Directed Energy Deposition, Material Extrusion, Material, Jetting, Sheet Lamination, and Vat photopolymerization, along with the fundamental physics governing each method. When possible, students will gain hands-on experience and hear from industry experts on how additive manufacturing is used in their companies. Hybrid manufacturing is discussed along with literature review on current research. Students will obtain a deep understanding of the capabilities of each 3D printing method and learn how to think about designing and fabricating objects using this new technology.

We are actively recruiting PhD students!

Please reach out if you are or you know anyone who may be interested.

Looking for students with some background in lasers, optics, or multi-material 3D printing via light assisted methods.

Please send us (seung_yeon.kang@uconn.edu) your CV and transcript if interested. Thanks!

• Paper 12898-30: Single step DLW fabrication of electrically focus tunable (ETF) thin metallic lens in a dielectric medium
  30 January 2024,  11:20 AM – 11:40 AM PST | Moscone Center, Room 303 (Level 3 South)

• Paper 12872-10: 3D multi-material printing with light: advanced digital light processing and femtosecond laser stereolithography (Invited Paper)
  30 January 2024 , 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST | Moscone Center, Room 215 (Level 2 South)

Congratulations to our PhD student Md Abdul Aziz who’s working on the PEC energy harvesting technology!

Our team (PECWEC) won the First Round of Prize Focused on Novel Wave Energy Technologies.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/doe-announces-winners-first-round-prize-focused-novel-wave-energy-technologies

See below for more information about the course. Continue reading →

Dr. Kang is giving a presentation in “Session: 03-01-01: 7th Annual Conference-Wide Symposium on Additive Manufacturing” at IMECE23. Come listen to our talk and find out what we are passionate about! 🙂

https://event.asme.org/IMECE

Dr. Kang gives an invited talk in symposia entitled “Additive Manufacturing: Design, Materials, Manufacturing, Challenges, and Applications” at MS&T23. Come listen to our talk and find out what we are passionate about! 🙂

https://www.matscitech.org/MST23/MST23/Default.aspx

ME 3295, ME5895 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering : Additive Manufacturing Technologies

https://catalog.uconn.edu/directory-of-courses/course/ME/3295/

https://gradcatalog.uconn.edu/course-descriptions/course/ME/5895/

This course introduces 7 different types of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) technologies based on ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) standards; Powder bed Fusion, Binder Jetting, Directed Energy Deposition, Material Extrusion, Material, Jetting, Sheet Lamination, and Vat photopolymerization, along with the fundamental physics governing each method. When possible, students will gain hands-on experience and hear from industry experts on how additive manufacturing is used in their companies. Hybrid manufacturing is discussed along with literature review on current research. Students will obtain a deep understanding of the capabilities of each 3D printing method and learn how to think about designing and fabricating objects using this new technology.

https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/alumni-profile-seungyeon-kang-phd-14?utm_content=buffer7d7b4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer