Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation

Professor Joesph Beaman Wins the International Award for Production Engineering

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Dr. Joesph Beaman, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, has been honored with the General Pierre Nicolau Award from the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP). CIRP is the world leading organization in production engineering research and is at the forefront of design, optimization, control and management of processes, machines and systems. 

Dr. Beaman is recognized for this award as one of the inventors of 3D printing technology and an expert in additive manufacturing. He was one of the founders of DTM Corporation (now merged with 3D Systems), which markets Selective Laser Sintering, an additive manufacturing technique that is now used worldwide. He will be honored at a virtual ceremony in August 2021 at the CIRP General Assembly. This Award is conferred in recognition of significant and distinguished scientific and industrial contributions to a specific area within the field of production engineering encompassed by the interests of CIRP.

Congratulations ETI Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship Awardees

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Congratulates four outstanding students being awarded ETI Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship! The four awardees are Alexander Greenhalgh (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Jordan Parker-Ashe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nick Folino (The Ohio State University), and Sarah Mantell (California Polytechnic State University). The ETI’s core mission is to direct the multidisciplinary research and innovation that enable the technologies to train the next generation of human capital, and to bridge the gap between the university basic research and NNSA national laboratories’ mission-specific applications. The ETI Undergraduate Scholarship recipients will receive up to $5,000 annually (for a maximum of two years) toward the cost of their education, including tuition, books required for classes, housing expenses for oncampus facilities, off-campus room expenses with a valid rent receipt, and fees charged to students of similar academic standing.

Alexander Greenhalgh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jordan Parker-Ashe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nick Folino,
The Ohio State University
Sarah Mantell,
California Polytechnic State University

Professor Bernard Kippelen group’s research on large-area, low-noise organic photodiodes published in Science

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Professor Bernard Kippelen’s group at Georgia Tech published their research findings on large-area, low-noise organic photodiodes in the journal Science. His group found that optimized choices of the semiconductor and electrode materials that improve diode characteristics enable organic photodetectors that can detect low light levels with low noise. “What we have achieved is the first demonstration that these devices, produced from solution at low temperatures, can detect as little as a few hundred thousand photons of visible light every second, similar to the magnitude of light reaching our eye from a single star in a dark sky. The ability to coat these materials onto large-area substrates with arbitrary shapes means that flexible organic photodiodes now offer some clear advantages over state-of-the-art silicon photodiodes in applications requiring response times in the range of tens of microseconds.” (Georgia Tech Research Horizons)

ETI Student Helping Develop Lifesaving Equipment to Battle COVID-19

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As a ETI master’s student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Kentez Craig is inspired by his parents who served as first responders working as paramedics for local hospitals, as he helps develop and build protective equipment for healthcare professionals on the front lines fighting the battle against COVID-19.  

Professor Alfred Hero elected Fellow of SIAM, and also honored with IEEE Fourier Award

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Alfred Hero, the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, was elected Fellow of SIAM — 2020 Class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Dr. Hero also won the 2020 IEEE Fourier Award “for contributions to the foundations of statistical signal processing with applications to distributed sensing and performance benchmarking.”