Collaborate
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The AMPrint Center is a highly multi-disciplinary research center that features faculty and staff with expertise spanning process development, materials science, and application development. There are several ways to collaborate with the AMPrint Center.
New York State Companies
The AMPrint Center is partially supported by New York State to help grow the AM industry within the state. If your company has employees in New York State, then significant matching funds and resources may be available to help pay for collaborative research. AMPrint Center faculty and staff will work with you to help determine what resources are available.
Identifying Faculty Members to Partner With
Please browse the list of AMPrint affiliate faculty and staff members you can reach out to and their focus areas. If you are unsure about who you should speak with, then Jade Myers will be happy to talk with you to understand your needs before making a recommendation on who you can speak to.
Affiliated Personnel
AMPrint Center Director
Focus Areas: Engineered lattice structures; Multi-functional, multi-material 3D printing; 3D printed composite materials
Senior Research Associate
Focus Areas: Inkjet printing, electronics, equipment fabrication
Focus Areas: Prosthetics and medical additive manufacturing
Focus Areas: Material behavior and microstructure evolution during machining processes
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Focus Areas: Dr. Zhang's research focuses on design for Additive Manufacturing and human centered design.
Focus Areas: Metal Additive Manufacturing; Data-informed Smart Manufacturing; Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing
Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science
Focus Areas: Ink Chemistry; Sol Gel Synthesis; Nanoparticle Synthesis
Focus Areas: Semiconductor device design and manufacturing
Focus Areas: Plastics, composites, and biodegradation
Focus Areas: Development and optimization of materials and processes for 3D bioprinting
Student Researchers
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Chris Ventre
MS Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research and Development: Low-cost metal droplet jetting printer
Valeria Marin-Montealegre
MS Product Development; PhD Mechanical & Indust. Engineering
Bioresorbable plates for craniofacial bone repair; Metal jetting AM
Usama Rifat
PhD Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Material characterization of droplet jetted aluminum