Outline • Additive Manufacturing – personal involvement • Industrial visits – Undergraduate & Postgraduate • Student graduations in the field • Curriculum development (Undergraduate study) • Research activities/collaborations
Additive Manufacturing Involvements: Laser Metal Deposition and Functionally graded materials: • Titanium & its alloys (Ti6Al4V + TiC; Ti6Al4V + HAP and Ti6Al4V + Cu) • Stainless steels • Aluminium • Copper • Boron Carbide Grant holder of Rental pool grant of NLC-CSIR from 2011-2015
Industry visits • National Laser Centre • Vaal University of Technology • Aerosud UG students visited Autonomous division & NLC UG & PG students @NLC
Student graduations • An average of 6 to 8 undergraduate final year projects annually since 2011 – over 30 students • Graduated 4 Masters and 6 dissertations are under examination. 8 ongoing • 3 PhD graduates. 6 ongoing
Curriculum development Advanced Manufacturing Systems 4A • Overview of the process & the associated technologies • Functionally Graded Material (FGM), • Its applications • Associated recent research focus areas
Collaborations • National Laser Centre • Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA • University of Pittsburgh, USA • IIT, Kharagpur • IISC, Bangalore India • University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research team As at March 2016: • 6 postdoctoral Fellows • 16 PhD candidates • 16 Masters candidates Over 70 publications in laser related field
Summary • Additive manufacturing in the academia and UG teaching is still at an infancy stage • Additive Manufacturing is a global technology with a lot of relevance in the industry. • It is multidisciplinary. • There is a need for a group that will act as crusaders to champion its inclusion in the curriculum of the relevant courses for the country to fully reap from its enormous benefits.
1st International Conference on Sustainable Materials Processing and Manufacturing at the Kruger National Park, South Africa, January 23- 25, 2017 https://www.eiseverywhere.com/eSites/165114/Ho mepage Esther Akinlabi etakinlabi@uj.ac.za +27115592137
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