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Virginia Tech Additive Manufacturing Grand Challenge

Virginia Tech Additive Manufacturing Grand Challenge

Christopher Williams

By Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams

Dr. Christopher Williams is an Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the Director of the DREAMS Lab (http://www.dreams.me.vt.edu) - an Additive Manufacturing research lab - and co-Director of the Center for Innovation-based Manufacturing (http://www.cibm.ise.vt.edu). Within the field of Additive Manufacturing, he is the recipient of the Rapid Prototyping Journal Outstanding Paper Award (2014), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2013), the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award (2012), and the Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (2010).

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In the Spring 2014 semester, Virginia Tech hosted a university-wide extracurricular competition that challenged students to design and fabricate fully 3D printed air and ground vehicles.  The context of the competition guided by the Department of Defense’s shared vision for forward deployment of Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems to provide agile on-site part production and reduction […]

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