Research
SME Focused Industrial Consortia
IN-MaC has provided seed funding to launch several topic based industrial consortia focused on meeting the needs of Indiana’s SMEs. While SMEs are the primary focus of the consortia, they are open to companies of all sizes, in particular those with a need to encourage their supply chain to adopt new technologies. Governance input to IN-MaC is also available at higher membership levels. The current group of Developing Consortia is listed below. Please contact Ronald Steuterman 765-494-4437 for more information.
Simulation-based Engineering of Materials and Structures (ICSEMS)
Thomas Siegmund - Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Perry Excellence Scholar
Developing Smart Business Ecosystems
Ananth Iyer - Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management & Department Head, Management, Krannert School of Management
Surface Engineering and Enhancement (CSEE).
David Bahr - Professor and Head of School of Materials Engineering
Advanced Lyophilization Technology Consortium – LyoHUB
Alina Alexeenko - Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Consortium for Materials Processing Research
Qingyou Han - School of Engineering Technology (SoET), Purdue Polytechnic Institute
Federal Funding and Successes
- IN-MaC is Purdue’s Link to the Recently Awarded Digital Manufacturing Design Innovation Institute (DMDII)
- National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)
- Awarded to UI Labs: 5 years / $70 Million Total
- IN-Mac providing up to $671K in cash cost share
- Purdue Component is led by Nathan W. Hartman, Dauch Family Professor of Advanced Manufacturing and Director, Product Lifecycle Management Center, Purdue Polytechnic Institute.
- Partner on the Institute for Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI)
- Manufacture of Composite Materials and Shapes
- $15 million cost share provided by IEDC
- Awarded to Creative Composites Solutions Corp. (UT Knoxville) 5 yrs / $70 Million Total
- Purdue Component is led by R. Byron Pipes, Director of the Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center and the John Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering.
- Partner on the NETFLEX (new name for Flexible Hybrid Electronics Institute), NNMI awarded August, 2015
- Led by Ali Shakouri, Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center
- 5 yrs / $75 Million Total; Awarded to FlexTech Alliance
- Birck Center is a resource center for the Institute
- IN-MaC providing up to $500K in cash cost share
IN-MaC Graduate Student Research Fellows: Inaugural Class
- Stephen Hodson
- Proposal Title: Reel-to Reel (R2R) Manufacturing of Carbon Nanopetal Arrays
- Department/School: AAE/ME
- Advisors: Alina Alexeenko, Tim Fisher
- Elcin Icten
- Proposal Title: Manufacture of Personalized Medicines
- Department/School: ChE
- Advisors: G.V. Reklaitis, Z.K. Nagy
- Juraj Vanek
- Proposal Title: Optimizing 3D Objects for Effective 3D Printing
- Department/School: CGT
- Advisors: Bedrich Benes
- Nigam Arora
- Proposal Title: Reel-to Reel (R2R) Manufacturing of Carbon Nanopetal Arrays Separator (TSS) Membranes for Self-Regulating Li-ion Batteries
- Department/School: Che
- Advisors: Alexander Wei
- Qiong Nian
- Proposal Title: Laser Based Digital Manufacturing Platform for Integration of MultiFunctional Structures in Pharmaceutical and Food Industry
- Department/School: IE
- Advisors: Gary Cheng