Title:

Micro/Nano-technology Enabled Manufacturing and Materials Processing

Speaker:

Prof. Xiaochun Li

Affiliation:

Nano-Engineered Materials Processing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

When:

Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

MARC Building, Room Auditorium

Host:

William Wepfer
bill.wepfer@me.gatech.edu

Abstract

Recent developments in micro/nano technology have yielded unprecedented potential towards enabling novel systems/processes for many engineering applications, e.g. manufacturing, energy conversion, and biomedical devices. However, grand challenges hinder its penetration into important engineering systems/processes that generally operate in harsh environments (such as high temperature, severe strain/stress/pressure, aggressive chemicals etc.). Understanding of process physics and/or effective monitoring and control of these systems/processes in harsh environments are of fundamental and practical significance. This talk will focus on thin film materials design, fabrication and applications of distributed micro/nano sensors to enhance fundamental understanding of process physics for manufacturing and materials processing under harsh environments. Research on Solidification Nanoprocessing of Metal Matrix Nanocomposites in the Nano-Engineered Materials Processing Center will also be briefly introduced.

Biography

Dr. Xiaochun Li is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2001. Dr. Li received NSF CAREER award in 2002, Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2003, and 2008 Howard F. Taylor Award from American Foundry Society (AFS). He has also received two best paper awards from conferences. He currently serves as the founding Director of Nano-Engineered Materials Processing Center (NEMPC) at UW-Madison.