SPRING 2014 Alumni Newsletter MABE is Part of $140 Million Advanced High-Tech Manufacturing Initiative President Barack Obama announces the creation of two Pentagon-led institutes to boost advanced high-tech manufacturing Photo credit: www.voanews.com Also in this issue... MABE Welcomes Anming Hu to the Faculty, Dr. Kenneth D. Kihm Leads to Success with PhD Students, Dr. James Conwell Visits MABE, Philip Clarke Finds Engineering Program a Perfect Fit. 1 MABE Part of 2 hanks for taking a look Contents at the Spring/Summer Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical $140 Million Advanced Engineering (MABE) Alumni Magazine. I hope Department Head’s Welcome 1 T you enjoy it! COVER STORY: MABE Part of $140 As you probably know by now, Million Advanced Manufacturing the College of Engineering Manufacturing Initiative 2 Initiative and MABE department are undergoing rapid change, some MABE Welcomes Anming Hu to the of which you can read about and partnerships the research efforts at UTSI. Zhang’s Faculty 3 here. The influx of new talent and across defense, NanoHelp group will help develop aerospace, well-controllable and multifunctional Department Notes 4 focus on innovative research and education is truly transforming automotive, materials and components based Student Organizations News 5 the department. One example energy, and on lightweight metals, exploring is the cover story of this issue consumer lightweighting solutions for high- Dr. Reinbolt Selected as a Member in about our department’s multi- products efficiency systems of energy, power, the New OpenSim Fellow Program 6 million dollar involvement in a industries.” and propulsion. new Lightweight and Modern Dr. Suresh “NanoHELP is honored to be part Dr. Kihm’s Philosophical Nature Leads Metals Manufacturing Innovation Babu, UT-Oak of this initiative and appreciates to Success with PhD Students 7 Institute. The $140 million Detroit- Ridge National the opportunity to contribute to based institute will help develop Laboratory these nationwide innovations in UTSI Professor Looks Forward advanced manufacturing methods (ORNL) manufacturing and help the US to Developing Future Biomedical for more fuel-efficient cars and decreased costs for ships and Governor’s Chair maintain a leading position in these Engineers 8 aircraft. UT’s involvement is led by Dr. Suresh Babu, MABE’s for Advanced strategic fields,” Zhang said. Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing, who just joined us Manufacturing Patent Filed for MABE Research Team Abedi’s research will perform in July. In addition to Babu, several junior MABE faculty from both and a faculty Involving Custom Thermocouple Design 9 advanced simulations of microstructure UTSI and Knoxville are also part of the effort. member in evolution during material manufacturing, Conwell Visits MABE to Speak to I would also like to invite you to join our Facebook page by MABE, will help correlating them to micro- and macro- Students and Faculty and to Reminisce 11 clicking the Facebook link at our homepage of . The Department of Mechanical, lead UT’s research effort as part of mabe.utk.edu scopic defects, and investigation of Here we post pictures of events and additional information. Aerospace, and Biomedical the initiative. The research will be the effect of such defects on material Alumni Spotlight: Larry Lacey Receives Additionally, I would like to encourage working professionals Engineering (MABE) will be part of performed by a team of faculty from characteristics such as fatigue and Lifetime Achievement Award 12 who use Linkedin.com to add the group University of Tennessee a $140 million national advanced UT Knoxville and the University of fracture response during service life. Mechanical, Aerospace, & Biomedical Engineering Students manufacturing initiative recently Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) to Engineering Program is a Perfect Fit for & Alumni. This is a growing group of students, alumni, and announced by President Barack develop innovative manufacturing “This large-scale research effort leads 13 Bahamian Student human resource representatives who can help each other with Obama. concepts to deploy advanced high to highly advanced materials that could employment opportunities and connections. In the past few years, strength steels, aluminum, titanium, drastically boost the efficiency of our MABE Students Accepted into Phi The announcement fulfills Obama’s I have seen a major shift in how employers get connected with and magnesium based alloys for a transportation system,” Abedi said. Kappa Phi 14 pledge in his 2013 State of the wide range of applications including potential employees, and Linkedin connections are becoming Union Address to establish new Assistant Professor Anming Hu will automotive, aerospace, and defense. GAME Sparks Interest in Science 16 increasingly important. I would like to see a robust community of manufacturing innovation institutes also be involved with the research at UT Researchers from several departments, students, employers, and alumni come together and help connect from existing resources. The Knoxville. the UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Photo Gallery 17 each other with the best opportunities out there. One of the initiative will help the United States Advanced Materials, joint faculty A White House press release stated, best ways I think alumni can give back is through connections to (US) manufacturers become more from ORNL, and UTSI will collaborate “The Institute serves a regional hub, A MABE Alumnus is Part of the Cast for opportunities, and Linkedin is a great way to do this. competitive and encourage investment 18 with small, medium, and large-scale bridging the gap between applied NBC’s American Dream Builders Finally, some alumni have been sending us old pictures and in the US. industries within this center. research and product development sharing some stories of their days at UT with me. I think this is The US Department of Defense by bringing together companies, We Want Your Photos 18 “It is huge. This is indeed recognition absolutely fantastic, and I would love to put some of these on funded initiative, called the universities and other academic and of our collaborative relationship with Facebook and in the next newsletter. So, if you have some old Lightweight and Modern Metals training institutions, and Federal ORNL and it provides us a platform to photos of your days at UT you do not mind sharing, please scan Manufacturing Innovation (LM3I), is agencies to co-invest in key technology develop our academic and research and send them to us with a brief background caption. We would being led by Detroit-based EWI, and areas that encourage investment and portfolio to a greater impact. This love to share them. is a consortium made up of thirty- production in the US. This type of also allows for our younger faculty Thanks again for taking the time to find out what’s going on in four companies and nine universities ‘teaching factory’ provides a unique and burgeoning student researchers MABE. I look forward to hearing from you and invite you to get in and labs. According to a press release opportunity for education and training to be part of a center, which will touch and stay connected. from the White House, “the long-term of students and workers at all levels. shape the future of a metals related goal of the LM3I Institute will be to It also provides shared assets to help All the best, manufacturing ecosystem. Students expand the market for and create companies, most importantly small will also have opportunities to new consumers of products and manufacturers, access the cutting- be embedded within different systems that utilize new, lightweight edge capabilities and equipment to organizations as they do research and high-performing metals and alloys by design, test, and pilot new products development relevant to the overall removing technological barriers to and manufacturing processes.” missions of the center,” Babu said. Matthew Mench their manufacture. The Institute will achieve this through leadership in Professors Reza Abedi and Feng pre-competitive advanced research Zhang will work with Babu and lead —Kathy Williams 3 Department Notes 4 Carnes Celebrates 30 Years the success and/or failure of different businesses. Carnes MABE Welcomes Anming Hu to the Faculty explained the statement applies to several areas in her life, On Nov. 28, 2013, Janet Carnes, including her work. Accounting Specialist III in MABE, marked thirty years of dedicated “Someone will ask me a question and I find that the Focusing on Lasers and Nanomanufacturing to Improve the Quality of Life service at the University of Tennessee appropriate answer is ‘it depends.’ We need to think (not (UT). Carnes began her career at UT just assume) before coming to a decision. Do we need more information? Are we just moving along like always or should Hu began his he accepted his position as an in the psychology department, where there be change? If change, then what, when, where, and studies at Shandong assistant professor within the she worked until she transferred to how much? It depends,” Carnes said. University. After department because of his interest the MABE department in 2007. While receiving his in the research and development of Janet Carnes working at UT, Carnes obtained her Will Carnes be working at UT five years from now? Ten BS degree, he additive manufacturing based on CPS Certification and graduated years from now? It depends. continued his laser technology and nanomaterials Magna Cum Laude with her BS degree in Business The MABE department congratulates Carnes on her thirty education at the happening in MABE. He stated this Administration-Accounting. years of service and is thankful for her hard work and Institute of Solid interest also includes laser exfoliation, “It depends” is a statement that stuck with Carnes when dedication to the university and the MABE department. State Physics, laser nanosintering, and laser she heard it in a business management lecture regarding Chinese Academy induced front transfer technology for —Kathy Williams of Science where nanodevice fabrication.