Additive manufacturing has recently gained the attention of multiple stakeholders, including those in the advanced manufacturing industry, research and government labs, academia, and the Navy community. Various efforts within the Navy focus on studying the best way for parts to be built and repaired for marine and naval vessels. Rapid manufacturing of spare components is particularly important for sailors, especially while deployed on warships, as they often do not have timely access to spare parts from the supply chain. For that purpose, a multidisciplinary team of engineering and education faculty have developed a series of workshops to train on-duty sailors in designing, testing, reverse engineering, and printing parts needed for their daily operations. The workshop has modules focused on rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, computer aided design, material testing, product data management, and product lifecycle management. The Office of Naval Research Workforce Development program funds this program.
Dr. Vukica Jovanovic is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technology, focus on Digital Manufacturing. Her research is focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Co-Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by Office of Naval Research, focusing on mechatronic pathways. She is part of the ONR project related to the additive manufacturing training of active military. She is also part of the research team that leads the summer camp to nine graders that focus on broadening participation of underrepresented students into STEM (ODU BLAST).
Dr. Karina Arcaute received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua, and her MS (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) from the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Dr. Michel Albert Audette received the B.Eng. (Electrical) degree from McGill University, in 1986, the M.Eng. degree (Electrical) from Ecole Polytechnique in 1993, and the Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) from McGill in 2002, all in Montreal, Canada. His industry experience includes flight simulation from 1986 to 1988, welding automation from 1991 to 1994, neurosurgical navigation (part-time) from 1995-1997, as well as open-source image analysis software from 2008 to 2011. He also did postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan from 2001-2005 and at Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) in Leipzig, Germany from 2006-2008. He has patents in US and Japan on surgery planning. Since July 2011, he has been employed as assistant professor in Old Dominion University's Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering. His research interests include medical simulation, medical image analysis, therapy planning, all three with an emphasis on neuro- and orthopedic surgery, as well as other clinical applications of musculoskeletal modeling, in addition to imaging and simulation applications for military well-being.
Dr. Anthony W. Dean . His appointments include Professor of Engineering Technology and as Interim Associate Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies for the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University
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