IISE Manufacturing and design (M&D) division best student paper competition

2023 Winner

1st Place:
Rongxuan Wang
Virginia Tech
"High-Resolution Sub-Surface Thermal Measurement in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Using Novel Fiber Optics and Machine Learning"

2022 Winner

1st Place:
Maede Maftouni, Bo Shen, Andrew Law and Raphael Wang
Virginia Tech
"Automatic Melt Pool Segmentation and Tracking in the X-ray Image Sequence"

2021 Winner

1st Place:
Liangkui Jiang
Iowa State University (ISU)
"Modeling and Experimental Validation of Droplet Generation in Electrohydrodynamic Inkjet Printing for Prediction of Printing Quality"

2020 Winner

1st Place:
Yingge Zhou
Texas Tech University
"Toward Fabrication of Capillary Blood Vessels"

2019 Winner

1st Place:
Karl Schuchard, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Matthew Fisher and Rohan Shirwaiker
North Carolina State University
"Investigating Process-structure Relationships of 3D-meltblowing for Tissue Engineering Applications"

2018 Winners

1st Place:
Mojtaba Khanzadeh
Mississippi State University
"Establishing the Process-structure Relationship using Tensor Decomposition of Thermal Images"

2nd Place:
Parth Chansoria
North Carolina State University
"Ultrasound-assisted Manipulation of Micro-particles in Fluid Matrix to Create Highly Aligned Anisotropic Composite Structures"

2017 Winner

1st Place:
Lokesh Karthik Narayanan, Binil Starly and Rohan Shirwaiker
North Carolina State University
"Non-Destructive Quality Assessment of 3D-Biofabricated Constructs using Dielectric Impedance Spectroscopy"

2016 Winner

1st place:
Sanjay Shrestha, Jae Joong Ryu, Guha Manogharan, Mark Plant and Benjamin Saltsgiver
Youngstown State University
"Experimental Investigation of Micro Scale Contact Fatigue Wear Damage of EBM-built T16AL4V Surface"