SIGMA lab hosted students from Tarrant County Community College in Oct. 2023. These students are mostly mechanical engineers, and they obtained hands-on experience from a range of activities, including stereolithography printing and post-processing, selective laser sintering printing and post-processing, and thermoplastic waste recycling in additive manufacturing.
SIGMA lab hosted kids from Boys and Girls Club of Greater Tarrant Country in Aug. 2023. They got to see different 3D printers, took home some fun 3D printed parts, and even tried recycling wastes to make filaments for fused deposition modeling! This event is in collaboration with UTA Human Factors Lab. Kids also got to use the selective laser sintering printer in virtual reality!
Dr. Yang and Ph.D. student Kobir attended NAMRC51, MSEC 2023 at Rutgers University New Brunswick in June 2023. Kobir presented our recent progress on AM fabricated metamaterials, VR training for 3D printing, as well as bio-inspired design in AM.
Dr. Yang attended the IISE Annual Conference 2023 in New Orleans. She presented our recent research paper on experiential learning in probability and statistics class, in collaboration with UTA Central Library.
Dr. Yang and Kobir attended the 7th international forum on sustainable manufacturing at University of Kentucky in Oct. 2022. As an emerging researcher in sustainable manufacturing, Dr. Yang gave an invited talk on “Enhancing the Sustainability of Additive Manufacturing in the Context of Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0”. Kobir presented a poster on “Recycling and Repair via Hybrid Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing”.
Dr. Yang attended University of North Texas Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing Summer outreach program in July 2022.
SIGMA lab worked with Dr. Shuchi Deb at Human Factors Lab on the design and development of a virtual reality (VR) training environment. This VR environment was leveraged in IE4345 group project in Spring 2022.
Dr. Yang Presented SIGMA Lab’s Research on 3D Printing at SUNY Potsdam Summer Camp 2022.
Dr. Yang co-organized the UTA 6th Annual 3D Printed Aircraft Competition (PAC) with Dr. Rob Taylor in June 2022 at UTA Maverick Stadium.
Noor Alyasiri, Clay Gifford, and Abhimanyu P Patel, advised by Dr. Xin Liu and Dr. Yang (left picture), presented their REU project “Design and Manufacturing of Ultralight Lattice Metamaterials Inspired by Nature” at UTA Innovation Day. They won the First Place Award. Esequiel Aguilar Villarreal, Cynthia Marie Dominguez, and Kristen Marie Leiker, advised by Dr. Yang and Ph.D. students Lei and Aman (right picture), presented their REU project “Cost-Aware Polyamide 12 Recycling in Selective Laser Sintering” as well.
University Media Coverage on Environmentally Sound Manufacturing, Nov. 2021
UTA University Advancement shot a promotional video on environmentally sound manufacturing at the SIGMA Lab. Lei and Esequiel presented the polymer recycling process in 3D printing.
Dr. Yang organized the second group meeting of UTA’s “Women in 3D printing” student organization with Dr. Narges Shayesteh at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. New student members joined the group.
Dr. Yang co-organized the UTA 5th Annual 3D Printed Aircraft Competition (PAC) with Dr. Rub Taylor at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UTA Maverick Stadium.
Dr. Yang co-funded UTA’s “Women in 3D Printing” organization with Dr. Narges Shayesteh.
Dr. Yang gave an online presentation on 3D printing design at UTA/Grapevine Middle School Engineering Week.
Dr. Yang led a lab tour at SIGMA during the Engineering Saturday K-12 Outreach Event. She introduced the current waste recycling issues in 3D printing, and demonstrated some state-of-the-art 3D printing technologies as well as measurement instrument.
