Purdue online resource for composite materials receives international innovation award
November 3, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An online community that provides free, 24/7 access to simulation tools to create composite materials was recognized at the JEC AMERICAS Conference in Boston.
The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB) is a cloud-based cooperative platform that hosts composites manufacturing simulation tools that can be accessed from the Internet through a Web browser. It received the JEC Innovation Award for academic achievement during the conference.
Johnathan Goodsell, assistant director of cdmHUB and visiting assistant professor in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said the selection criteria for the award included market potential, originality, selection of partners and technical excellence.
"My colleagues at cdmHUB and I are humbled by this recognition. JEC AMERICAS is one of the foremost conferences in the world for the composites industry, and this prestigious award will further our resolve to keep our online community strong," he said. "Our sponsors have been outstanding since cdmHUB launched. We thank Purdue University, Boeing, Cytec Engineering Materials, DARPA, Dassault Systemes, Henkel and Rolls-Royce for their support."
Goodsell said cdmHUB is a place to convene the composites community and to direct the field toward key strategic issues to further advance the adoption and manufacture of composite materials. It hosts tools that range from simple ones that require only small amounts of computational cycles to those that require supercomputing systems.
"At its heart, cdmHUB's mission is to educate and deepen the understanding about composites, then propagate and disseminate information and knowledge," he said. "It will increase understanding of where modeling tools are and explore today's unanswered questions about composites."
cdmHUB has offices in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette.
About the Composites and Design Manufacturing HUB
The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB) is a collaborative Web interface platform designed to enhance and build synergies among the composite community by enabling users to interact 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The platform was developed to host the simulation tools needed to advance composite materials design, certify product integrity, simulation manufacturing solutions and accelerate the talent base of composite materials developers and users. The cdmHUB will showcase emerging simulation tools, evaluate existing and emerging simulation tools and host simulation challenges to educate and unify the composites community. For more information about cdmHUB, visit cdmHUB.org.
About Purdue Research Park
The Purdue Research Park is the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country. The Purdue Research Park manages the Purdue Technology Centers in four sites in Indiana: West Lafayette, Indianapolis, Merrillville and New Albany. The more than 260 companies located in the parks employ about 4,500 people who earn an average annual wage of $63,000. The park is managed by the Purdue Research Foundation, which received the 2014 Incubator Network of the Year from the National Business Incubation Association for its work in entrepreneurship. For more information about funding and investment opportunities in startups based on a Purdue innovation, contact the Purdue Foundry at foundry@prf.org
Purdue Research Park contact: Steve Martin, 765-588-3342, sgmartin@prf.org
Source: Johnathan Goodsell, jgoodsel@purdue.edu
