A group of Oregon State graduate students from the Industrial Sustainability lab within MIME traveled to UC Davis to attend the inaugural California forum on energy efficient manufacturing (CaFEEM). The students presented a total of five posters covering research in additive manufacturing, grinding operations, manufacturing process modeling, and plastics injection molding. The forum included such names as SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) creator of Durus, an ultra efficient walking humanoid robot, and attendees from UC Berkeley and UC Davis. While there we presented our research, learned the state-of-the-art research being conducted by the participants, and gathered a number of new contacts for future collaboration. As a takeaway, the forum was highly successful for us as students to present our work and network, and for Oregon State as a whole in reinforcing our image as forerunner of Sustainability.
CATEGORIES: Student Sustainability Initiative