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Our group attended the ASME MSEC/SME NAMRC-54 Conference at Penn State University (June 2026).
| June 2026 | SEMI-LAB hosted visitors from the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) (Dr. Jungso Nam & Dr. Kyeongeun Song) and the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) (Dr. Jungsub Kim & Dr. Gyuho Kim) (June 2026). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| June 2026 | SEMI-LAB hosted Prof. Martin Byung-Guk Jun from Purdue University (June 2026). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| June 2025 | With Friends from Purdue University at the MSEC 2025 Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Feb 16, 2026 | We celebrated our group’s recent publications with a lunch accompanied by Turkish tea! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dec 19, 2025 | Faydia has successfully completed her M.Eng. program and will be joining Sikorsky. Congrats, Faydia! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| July 18, 2025 | Our group participated in the NSF Engine milestone meeting as part of the RPI Team (from left to right: Prof. Akin, Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham (Nobel Laureate), Prof. Fudong Han). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| May 1, 2025 | We celebrated the end of the Spring '25 semester and bid farewell to Hongfei and Hongru Liu, who are both heading to Carnegie Mellon University. |
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| October, 2024 | RPI Manufacturing Day - Blackhawk landing on campus. |
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| October, 2024 | We hosted Prof. Albert Shih (U-Mich) and Prof. Jianjun Shi (G-tech) at RPI. |
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| Sep 27, 2024 | We hosted the DARPA SENSE program directors at RPI. |
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| September 24, 2024 | We have successfully submitted our DARPA-SENSE project deliverables. 👍 |
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| June 2024 | Dr. Akin attended the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC). |
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