SAMPE Boston Materials & Innovation Night
The Materials & Innovation Night + Student Career Fair would not have been possible without the support of SAMPE Boston’s sponsors.
Diamond Sponsors
Boston Materials
Textron Systems
Gold Sponsors
APCM Manufacturing
AvCarb Materials Solutions
Concordia Fibers
Gallagher Custom Machines & Automation
Northern Composites / Krayden
Physical Sciences
Revolution Composites
Sika Corporation
Specialty Materials
Bronze Sponsors
We are pleased to thank our sponsors for their support and help in growing the advanced materials and processes in our local area, along with the rest of the nation and the world. We also would like to thank the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) for their support of the student career fair, with SME sponsoring the Additive Manufacturing Award. One of event attendees mentioned how “wonderful it was to be able to one-stop shop and find several companies within a one to two hour drive from his plant that could help him solve problems on a current project that he was working on”.
Student Career Fair
Almost a dozen students from several local universities (University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Southern Maine, & Northeastern University) took part in a Posters Session sponsored by the SAMPE Boston chapter and the SME. A wide range of research projects were presented from shape memory alloys, to adhesion studies for glass-ceramic materials, to additive manufacturing projects, to a novel method of encompassing carbon nanotubes into PAN precursors. It was apparent to all involved that the state of the engineering curriculum and hands on engineering training in each these schools are strong. While the competition was tough, the winners of the project awards were as follows: