CMM Team, including Alex and Jimesh, will teams with 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸, and the other ODU members to develop “Habolith” structures with support from the Department of the Air Force SBIR award. Planetary Shelter is the industry lead on this… Continue Reading →

Old Dominion University mechanical and aerospace engineering students Jimesh Bhagatji and Noah Leclair were selected as finalists for the 2025 Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) University Research Symposium, held during the Composites and Advanced Materials… Continue Reading →

PhD candidate, M. Saquib received a prestigious ASC PhD Scholarship. Below Saquib compiled some information about his work and the society. The ASC Ph.D. Scholarship is a nationally competitive award that recognizes and supports outstanding doctoral students conducting innovative research in the field of… Continue Reading →

Our first time participation from CMM team at ICCM was great. Two great technical talks by Jimesh and Ahmad, and a lot of networking discussions and the pre-season NFL game!  

SAMPE 2025 in Indianapolis had another great participation from CMM Group: from bridge competition entries (2 of our beams placing in top 3 – lead by ODU SAMPE Student President Jimesh Bhagatji) to great technical talks by Ahmad Ravangard, Aaron… Continue Reading →

Oleksandr Kravchenko, Ph.D., an associate professor in Old Dominion University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received a $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to develop deployable thermoplastic carbon fiber composite booms for CubeSats—small… Continue Reading →

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.

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 →

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.

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!