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3D FEATURE Youngstown State
Advances Additive
University
With $10 million in funding, myriad processes and equipment, and an impressive faculty leading the charge, YSU research impacts aerospace and more. BY JOE JANCSURAK, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The Mahoning Valley in Northeast Ohio, with the city of Youngstown at its center and the nick- name “Steel Valley” as an integral part of its his- tory, is staging a manufacturing comeback. For those wanting to learn more about Youngstown’s past as a steel town, there is the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor, also known as the steel museum. For those wanting to learn about the area’s role as an additive-manufacturing (AM) center, there’s the Youngstown State University Center for Innovative Additive Manufacturing (CIAM), where additive processes and applications are advancing via $10 mil- lion in external research funding, myriad processes and equipment, and brain power.
What’s more, CIAM is just 1000 steps from America Makes, the public-private partnership for advancing AM with member organizations from industry, acade- mia, and government and nongovernment agencies, and where YSU faculty and students can gain additional hands-on training in metal-AM technologies. CIAM graduates have found work at GE Additive, NASA, Ford, Voxeljet and rp+m, to name a few.
A look inside the Ambit multitask system from Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies. Shown are laser-deposition heads in the tool carrier on the left, along with several subtractive-machining tools.
Left to right: Eric MacDonald, Jason Walker and Brett Conner, the CIAM brain trust.
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