Manufacturing Digitalization, AI & Robotics (Auditorium/Room 203)

Session Chair: Pingbo Tang, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Human-Centered Digitalization of Manufacturing Skills: Multimodal Cognitive Twins for Scalable Workforce Training

  • Pingbo Tang, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Run-Time Digital Twins for Grid-Responsive Manufacturing System Control

  • IIya Kovalenko, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Artificial Intelligence-Based Fusion of Multimodal Nondestructive Evaluation Data for Additive Manufacturing in Construction

  • Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Drexel University, Additive Construction of Concrete Structures: Bridging Research and Practice for the Future
  • Jose Pinto Duarte, Professor, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

Systems-Level Model for De-Risking Robotics and Automation in Manufacturing

  • John Haughery, Associate Professor, Applied Engineering, Safety & Technology, Millersville University

Materials Science (Room 430) 

Session Chair: Ronald Kander, Research Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

From Rags to Renewables: Making Biopolymers from Cotton Waste

  • Ronald Kander, Research Professor, Engineering, Thomas Jefferson University 

Challenges in Manufacturing Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

  • Wei-Heng Shih, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University

Engineered Nanocellulose Materials for Multifunctional Biomedical and Energy Applications

  • Longyan Chen, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Gannon University

Manufacturing and Diagnostics of Solvent-Free, Dry Battery Electrodes

  • Wesley Chang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University