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John Defends PhD!

John defends his PhD titled “Effects of High Temperature Compaction on 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites”. Dr. Barber will be joining as a faculty at Virginia Military Institute.

Aaron Defends MS Thesis!

Congratulations to Aaron Sinkler for defending his MS Thesis “Characterization of Cure and Temperature Dependent Properties of Filament Wound Composite Structures,” which focuses on building a material input card for process modeling of filament-wound composites. This includes experimental measurement of… Continue Reading →

SAMPE Student Night: 2025

Congratulations to CMM Group members:  Noah Leclair for 1st Place in Poster Presentation and Jimesh Bhagatji for the 2nd Place in Podium Presentation during annual Baltimore/Washington SAMPE University Research Symposium that showcased student research from B/W affiliated student university chapters.

ODU SAMPE Chapter Scores 2nd in GFRP Bridge Design

SAMPE-2024 was another year when ODU SAMPE Bridge team finished on podium, this time second in GFRP beam design. Great team effort and looking ahead of SAMPE-2025!  

HPBC Finalist in CAMX Manufacturing Innovation 2024

Our research on Hot Powder Bed Compaction (HPBC) of thermoplastic composites was featured as a finalist in Manufacturing Innovation during CAMX-2024. Great job by Jimesh, Gon and Theo who lead and contributed to this work!    

Mark Defends his MS Thesis

It is great to see Mark Patterson successfully defend his MS Thesis! Upon graduation Mark will be joining Artificial Intelligence Integration Center of Army Futures Command.

Visiting Rocket Lab

It was great to take part in visiting Rocket Lab at Wallops Island this summer and discuss different opportunities for collaboration with my fellow colleagues from ODU.

DOE Conference in DC

Dr. Dan Mulqueen presented at the annual DOE conference our joint work on plant based graphene, which was supported by Vehicle Technologies Office Program. It is great to continue this work and looking forward to working on this project!

SAMPE Student Night

CMM Team participated at DC/Baltimore SAMPE Chapter. Saquib received a 2nd place for his research presentation on AI reconstruction of internal morphology in composites and Theo got a 3rd prize for his poster!

SAMPE: Long Beach, 2024

ODU CMM Team had a strong participation at the annual SAMPE meeting in Long Beach. Jimesh presented his doctoral research and ODU SAMPE bridge team scored third in glass fiber beam contest! It was also great to meet with all… Continue Reading →

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