Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME)

ZJ Pei, Ph.D.

Program Director

Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program

Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

Directorate for Engineering

National Science Foundation

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Science and Technology Priorities

for FY 2015 Budget

Advanced manufacturing

Clean energy

Global climate change

R&D for informed policy-making and management

Information Technology

R&D for National-Security Missions

Innovation in Biology and Neuroscience

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education

Innovation and commercialization

Advanced Manufacturing Cluster

MME - Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (ZJ Pei)

MEP - Materials Engineering and Processing (Larry Bank,

Alexis Lewis, Mary Toney)

NM - NanoManufacturing (Khershed Cooper)

MME Program Synopsis

MME supports fundamental research that enables the development of new and/or improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and optimization of their use.

Proposals relating to a wide range of manufacturing operations are encouraged, including both subtractive and additive processes, forming, bonding/joining, and laser processing.

Of particular interest are proposals that relate to the manufacture of equipment and facilities that enable the production of energy products.

Competitive Proposals Received by MME

Competitive projects will propose hypothesis-driven research that advances the frontiers of knowledge in relevant areas.

Proposals submitted to the MME program should include a clearly articulated research (not developmental) objective and a coherent plan to accomplish the stated objective.

Both experimental and theoretical work are supported.

All proposals must include a statement outlining the societal benefits of the proposed activities.

AM/3DP 25%

Assembly 2%

Bio/medical 13%

Casting 1%

Energy manufacturing

6% Forming

5% Joining

5%

Laser processing

7%

Machine 4%

Machining 22%

Metrology 10%

MME Portfolio by Area (# of Awards)

Recent Additive Manufacturing Awards in MME

1) 3D Near Field e-Writing with Submicron Resolution

2) 3D Printing of Hierarchical Fiber-Reinforced Soft-Composites

3) 3D Printing of Smart Structural Composites by Thermoelectric Extrusion with Molecular Precision

4) 3D-Printed Porous Structure and Polymer Infiltration for Fabrication of Functionally Gradient Material with Complex Shape

5) Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts by Electrochemical Deposition

6) Additive Manufacturing of Near-net Shape and Fully Dense Shape Memory Alloys

7) Bioprinting of Bone Tissue into Defect Sites on Animal Models in Surgery Settings

8) CAREER: 3D Printing of Heart Muscle Using Soft Hydrogels

9) CAREER: An Integrated Research and Educational Program to Understand Nano Additive Manufacturing by Electrochemical Deposition

10) CAREER: Hybrid Approach to Direct-Write Based Micro and Nano Manufacturing

11) CAREER: Hybrid Bioprinting of Engineered Vascularized Endocrine Tissues

12) CAREER: Mask Video Projection Based Additive Manufacturing at the Micro-scale over Large Areas

13) CAREER: Multiobjective Learning Control Strategies for Additive Manufacturing

14) CAREER: Pushing the Boundaries: Advancing the Science of Micro-Additive Manufacturing

15) Collaborative Research: Battery Electrode Fabrication through Innovative Powder based Additive Manufacturing

16) Collaborative Research: Modeling and Characterization of Transition Joints Made by Friction Surfacing Based Additive Manufacturing (FSAM)

17) Combinatorial Additive Manufacturing Approach for Fabricating Nano/Micro 3D Structures

18) Digital Fabrication of High-Temperature Metals Using Selective Inhibition of Sintering

19) Drop-on-Demand Deposition of Complex Fluids for 3-D Manufacturing

20) Electric Field Guided Micro Additive Manufacturing Process

21) Electrochemical Infiltration of Selective Laser Sintered Preforms

22) Freeform Fabrication of Multifunctional Nanocomposites via Selective Laser Sintering

23) GOALI/Collaborative Research: Additive manufacturing for a highly efficient artificial photosynthesis device with multi-layer interconnected channels and micro-porous structures

24) GOALI/Collaborative Research: Integrated Microstructure and Melt Pool Dimension Control for Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing

25) GOALI: Collaborative Research: Process Development across Alloy Systems for Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing

26) GOALI: Collaboration on Novel Materials and Methods for 3D Printing of Microscale Medical Devices

27) GOALI: Novel Piezoelectric Device Fabrication Using Digital Projection based Additive Manufacturing

28) GOALI: Online Defect Detection and Mitigation Method for Incipient Anomalies in Additive Manufacturing Processes

29) High Fidelity Additive Manufacturing at the Micro-scale

30) Hybrid Direct Manufacturing Production

31) In Situ Characterization of Effect of Rapid Thermal Cycling During Additive Manufacturing on Deformation-Induced Transformations and Micro-Mechanical Properties

32) Integrated Microstructure and Melt Pool Dimension Control for Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing

33) Integrating Inkjet Printing with Nanoporous Structures for High-throughput Manufacturing of 3D Heterogeneous Nanostructures

34) Investigation of Electrohydrodynamic 3D Printing for Super-Resolution Additive Manufacturing

35) Iterative Process Control for Laser Metal Deposition

36) Modeling and Characterization of Transition Joints Made by Friction Surfacing Based Additive Manufacturing (FSAM)

37) Multi-Material, Multi-Layer Devices Enabled by High Aspect Ratio Micro-Extrusion

38) Multiscale Structure-Mechanical Property Investigation of Additive Manufactured Components for Development of a Reliable Qualification Method

39) Realizing 3-D Printing and Patterning of Metals at Room Temperature

40) Sensing and Control of Photopolymerization-based Additive Manufacturing Processes

41) Shock Wave Induced Freeform Technique (SWIFT) for Manufacturing of Diamond Microtools

42) Thermomechanical and Powder Sintering Aspects in Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing - Applications to Overhang Support Designs

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NSF Workshop on Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing Research and Education; Arlington, Virginia; 11-12 July 2013

• Co-funded by 14 NSF programs

• 177 registered participants

• 13 presentations (http://nsfam.mae.ufl.edu/Schedule.htm)

• Workshop report available at http://nsfam.mae.ufl.edu/2013NSFAMWorkshopReport.pdf

NSF Workshop on Educational Needs and Opportunities in Additive Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; April 10-11, 2014

• Co-funded by 3 NSF programs

• 66 participants

• 17 presentations (http://www.enge.vt.edu/nsfamed/)

• Workshop report available at http://www.enge.vt.edu/nsfamed/NSF_AM_Ed_Workshop_Report.pdf

NSF Workshop on Environmental Implications of Additive Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; October 14-15, 2014

• Co-funded by 2 NSF programs

• 96 participants

• 8 invited speakers (http://nsfamenv.wilsoncenter.org/speakers.html)

• Workshop report not available yet

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