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Morehead State University Using VR, AR to Enhance Manufacturing Environments

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As Kentucky NSF EPSCoR research continues to push the boundaries of advanced manufacturing, it is essential that humans and machines speak the same language. Through software algorithms and machine learning, as well as powerful augmented and virtual reality scenarios, the engineering labs at Morehead State University are working to test, train, and enrich the manufacturing …

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Kentucky State University hosts January 2021 nanoCollider

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Professor of Chemistry Dr. Kazi Javed and PLTL scholar Camron Aber spoke on collaboration and increasing STEM student success through Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) and summer research at Kentucky State University. Highlights KSU’s current EOD and Workforce Development collaborations across the state as well Camron’s experience as a student researcher with Dr. Biyun Xie, Assistant …

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Professor Kunal Kate Uses 3D Printing to Connect Industry and Academia

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Watch our full interview with University of Louisville Professor Kunal Kate speaking on his newly formed graduate level course “Additive Manufacturing (AM) with Polymers.” Here he introduced the ICME platform, Digimat – AM, that teaches students about 3D printing thermomechanical process simulations. As a case study, the students did EOAT design and 3D Printing for …

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Somerset Community College Hosts First Ever nanoCollider

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Eric Wooldridge and his Somerset Community College (SCC) team are earning a reputation of firsts. Today was no different as they became the first host of nanoCollider, KY NSF EPSCoR’s new monthly collaboration meeting, with rotating host institutions. KY NSF EPSCoR nanoColliders allow for participants to more broadly identify opportunities to enhance existing cross-institutional collaborations …

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Transylvania, Schnitzenbaumer, Advancing Nanocrystals for Device Engineering, Enhancing Science in Community

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As Kentucky NSF EPSCoR research pushes the boundaries of advanced manufacturing in the Commonwealth and beyond, it’s vital that the materials used to create sensors and electronic components are flexible, cost-effective, and more sustainable. Dr. Kyle Schnitzenbaumer, chemistry professor at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, is working on materials that do just that. His research …

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SUPERCOLLIDER 2020 RECAP

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A Super Collider is a physics term of a collider in which superconducting magnets are used to accelerate particles to energies of millions of megavolts. Like its namesake, KY NSF EPSCoR’s SuperCollider promotes accelerating of ideas, the attraction of researchers from across the state, thus producing the megavolts necessary to advance manufacturing in Kentucky. On …

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