3D printing innovation at M4 Lab featured on 10TV

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  The newly established Medical Modeling, Materials and Manufacturing Lab (M4 Lab) was recently featured on WBNS-10TV. In the lab, experts work to find innovative engineering solutions for real-world needs in clinical medicine.   The M4 Lab is a hub for innovative approaches to health care and advanced manufacturing techniques that brings together experts from the College of Medicine’s Department …

Emerging Innovation District set to spur economic growth, advance energy research

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The emerging Innovation District on The Ohio State University’s West Campus, which is set to propel research advancements and economic growth, took another major step forward in its development with a significant financial push from the state and JobsOhio.   Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in February helped announce the rapidly developing district will receive a large portion of a $100 …

How an engineering startup got off the ground in the Ohio State entrepreneurial ecosystem

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This article was originally published on the Ohio State Corporate Engagement Office’s website. “It typically takes three things to build a successful startup: a promising technology, funding and talent,” says Cheryl Turnbull, senior director for the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship. “We are here to bring these elements together to help take promising technologies developed at The Ohio State University into …

Ohio State’s new M4 Lab utilizes 3D printing to meet needs in clinical medicine

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  A newly formed, interdisciplinary team of researchers at The Ohio State University’s Nanotech West Laboratory is utilizing 3D printing to find innovative engineering solutions for real-world needs in clinical medicine.   Current 3D printing technologies at Ohio State allow experts in the recently established Medical Modeling, Materials and Manufacturing Lab (M4 Lab) to quickly create complex geometries and shapes …

Buckeyes Connect: Buckeyes Tackling Safety event with All-American Shawn Springs set for Dec. 10

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The College of Engineering is set to present Buckeyes Connect: Buckeyes Tackling Safety, a conversation with entrepreneur and All-American Shawn Springs on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m.   The event will bring together Springs and collaborators from Ohio State’s Dynamic Mechanics of Materials Lab, professor Amos Gilat and associate research professor Jeremy Seidt, for a panel discussion about their …

COVID-19 Inventor Showcase to highlight Ohio State effort to mass manufacture critical testing supplies

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  Mark your calendars for the Dec. 15 virtual panel discussion.    As COVID-19 spread throughout Ohio and the country, the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) turned to its research community in the hopes of turning the tide. The situation of dwindling testing supplies was critical, the need was urgent, and responses had to come quickly. A multidisciplinary team at …

NSF funds $1.5M tool to advance next-gen nanotechnology at Nanotech West Lab

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Scientists at The Ohio State University earned another key tool for semiconductor research, which is paving the way for advanced technologies beneficial to society.   The National Science Foundation approved a $1.5 million Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) toward the purchase and installation of an electron-beam lithography system at Nanotech West Laboratory, operated by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).   Principal Investigator Siddharth Rajan, Ohio State professor …

Air Force, Ohio State announce partnership to improve diversity in science, engineering

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The Ohio State University and the U.S. Air Force are creating a national consortium to increase opportunities in the Air Force for minority STEM students and graduates. Ohio State will co-lead the new effort with Wright State University, North Carolina A&T State University, and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The six-year, $40 million project, …

Ohio State News: Glenn Daehn honored for technology commercialization

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Glenn Daehn, the Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at The Ohio State University, has dedicated much of his professional life to impulse manufacturing, a technology that allows new ways of shaping, cutting, joining, and processing materials. He’s also been active in turning his research into commercial products. Daehn’s startup company Applied Impulse, Inc., has licensed seven technologies from Ohio State …

IMR faculty member Glenn Daehn contributes to The Conversation — “The pandemic has revealed the cracks in US manufacturing: Here’s how to fix them”

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Glenn Daehn, Ohio State’s Fontana Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and University of Michigan Prof. Sridhar Kota wrote about the need to re-establish manufacturing capabilities, especially now, in the face of crisis. Less than just half a year into the U.S. declaring the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, the U.S. manufacturing sector revealed its own defects and inability to …