DMREF-FM: Materials to Manufacturing

The meeting leaders consist of 7 PIs from 2 different collaborations funded by the NSF DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) and FM (Future Manufacturing) programs.

Learn more about the goals of the DMREF team and participating DMREF PIs:

• Rae Robertson-Anderson | University of San Diego
• Megan Valentine | UC Santa Barbara
• Moumita Das | Rochester Institute of Technology

Learn more about the goals of the FM team and participating FM PIs:

• Shu Yang | UPenn
• Xiao Hu | Rowan Univ
• David Salas-de la Cruz | Rutgers Univ
• Andrej Kosmrlj | Princeton Univ

Our challenge: Can we leverage our team's unique expertise and integrate these varied approaches through experiment, theory and computation to improve material design and manufacturing?

Our goals:

1. Catalyze interactions and enable collaborations between our DMREF and FM teams.

2. Institute student exchanges to develop new tools that enable rapid iterative screening and optimization toward defined performance targets and new approaches to multiscale modeling to guide material design. 

3. Provide training in ideation, team science, and proposal development.

4. Provide opportunities to practice and develop skills in writing, communication, collaboration, and project management.