UT FCMF actively participated in CAMX 2022. UT had a booth at the educational pavilion in the exhibition hall. UT closely coordinating with IACMI-The Composites Institute at the event.
Two UT students presented their research on (1) Kaustubh Mungale on magnesium-carbon fiber composite bonding; and (2) Benjamin Schwartz on bio-composites manufacturing and characterization.
UT was selected as a finalist under the Infinite Market Growth category for the ACE awards (Advancing Composites Excellence) for its work on modular energy efficient cladding panels. Carbon Rivers a start up in wind blade recycling in Knoxville, TN won an ACE award for glass fiber recycling. Our own student Warren Smith works with Carbon Rivers for his research and was in integral contributor. Congratulations to the team!
Our collaborators at ORNL Vipin Kumar, David Nuttal, Ahmed Hassen and team won the CAMX Best of Show award for their AM-CM technology, an incredible and prestigious award. Congratulations to the ORNL team.
UT faculty and collaborator Dayakar Penumadu and team won the SAMPE award for their work on the Composite Bridge. Congratulation to Penumadu and team.
We are grateful to CAMX for these various opportunities.
Thanks to our friend and supported Peter Hedger, Vice President at Composites Application Group (CAG) for organizing and hosting Lockheed Technology Day in Knoxville July 12-13, 2002.
Congratulations to Ryan Spencer, PhD student for being recognized as outstanding collaborating student between FCMF and the ORNL Composites Section. Ryan has been exemplary in his efforts to work between UT and ORNL in numerous high-value projects. These include NDE (High Fidelity DIC, Acoustic Emission), Additive Manufacturing, Effects of Extreme Environments to name a few. Ryan is also an excellent mentor to his undergraduate students – he provides them with the best practice(s), research protocols, data analysis and interpretation leading to high impact factor publications. Congratulations Ryan, we are proud of you!
Congratulations to Alex Stiles – now Dr. Alex Stiles for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on Ultraviolet Curing of Thermoset Resins. Alex did fine work in understanding the cure kinetics and mechanisms of UV cured resins in fiber preform. He published his work in Additive Manufacturing and Polymers journal(s) among others. A mentor to numerous undergraduate and graduate students, Alex always contributed to FCMF in numerous ways including STEM and work force training. 
Ryan Ogle completed his MS in May 2022. He did excellent work in Additive Manufacturing and Optimization of PEEK based thermoplastics for innovative adaptive pore applications. His work involved high fidelity geometries and he investigated the extreme bounds of printing these high temperature high performance polymers. Ryan started at FCMF as an undergraduate biomedical engineer and went on to do his MS in an exemplary manner. Congratulations Ryan!
Congratulations to Dr. Soydan Ozcan for being named the Group Leader for ORNL Sustainability & Circular Economy. In this role he leads the significant emerging area of recycling, circular economy, life cycle analysis and decarbonization initiatives. Ozcan already leads a multi-million dollars program in sustainability in collaboration with University of Maine. The UT FCMF team works closely with Ozcan and his incredible team. Congratulations and we gratefully acknowledge the collaboration.
SAMPE Conference and Exhibition is exclusively dedicated to advanced materials and processes. Produced by the North America Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, this event brings together leading companies, engineers, scientists, and professionals from throughout the advanced materials and processes industry.
FCMF was pleased to host Dr. Marco Menegozzo, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez over summer 2022. Marco was a visiting faculty scholar under the ORAU program with ORNL. His work was integrated across ORNL and UT and focused on additive manufacturing and damage tolerance of innovative sandwich composites. The work has applications in next-generation aerospace structures. While at FCMF he worked closely with Dr. Romeo Fono-Tamo, Ryan Ogle, Ryan Spencer, Pritesh Yeole, George Chahine and the entire FCMF team. We appreciate the continued collaboration and thanks for Marco’s time with us.