Dr. Yang received the Department of Energy (DOE) Award on “Outstanding Achievement in Energy Engineering” as an Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) Alumni, 2022. She worked as a student investigator at DOE IAC in Chicago from 2015-2019.
Dr. Yang received a new grant from DOD on the project “Naval Onsite/Offshore Repair and (Re)Manufacturing Enabled by Hybrid Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing” ($545,632) as PI. With the support of this grant, SIGMA lab will purchase a novel 5-axis metal hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing machine. This project will start in August, 2022.
Dr. Yang received a prestigious award from NSF on the project “Enhancing Active Learning in Additive Manufacturing Using a Bilingual, Assisted Virtual-Reality Platform” ($837,138) as Co-PI, in collaboration with the Human Factors Lab (PI Shuchi Deb) and Education College (Co-PI Amanda Olsen). This 3-year project will start on 06/15/2022.
Noor Alyasiri, Clay Gifford, and Abhimanyu P Patel presented their work “Design and Manufacturing of Ultralight Lattice Metamaterials Inspired by Nature” at UTA Innovation Day 2022.This REU team is advised by Dr. Liu and Dr. Yang. This project proposes a new approach to power the beam lattice metamaterials by the…
Dr. Yang is selected to participate in UTA Libraries’ Experiential Learning Faculty Facilitator Program. The program aims to support student success by uniting the course content, the experiential learning curriculum design, and the libraries’ resources and technologies that build the transferable skills of the students. As part of this program,…
Dr. Yang have demonstrated the comprehensive knowledge skills that constitute the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective practice framework, and is awarded the Certificate in Effective College Instruction.
Lei presented our latest work on “Greenhouse Gas Emission Analysis of Integrated Production-Inventory-Transportation Supply Chain Enabled by Additive Manufacturing” at the ASME MSEC conference. Good job Lei!
Dr. Yang presented our latest findings on Additive Manufacturing Waste Recycling at the International Conference on Resource Sustainability 2021 and won the Best Presentation Award. Additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing) technologies have found applications in a wide range of industries such as aerospace and automobile, due to…
Dr. Yang attended VentureWell infusing sustainability into curriculum workshop in June 2021. VentureWell has long advocated for integrating sustainability into innovation and entrepreneurship, and in this time of climate emergency, their efforts to transform engineering education have gained new urgency and support.
The REU project “Recycling and Reusing ABS Wastes from 3D Printing” won the Undergraduate L3/Harris Award in UTA Innovation Day 2020. Congratulations to Esequiel Aguilar Villarreal (team leader), Murphy Balsomi, Prissha Krishna, Richard Robertson, and Linh Tran! Shut out to Lei for helping the UG team in preparation for the…
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