Contact Co-Directors
Felix Lu
Erin Gill Office: 608-263-0612 Email: emgill@wisc.edu
HOTEL INFORMATION
Fluno Center
601 University Ave. Madison, WI 53715 Phone: (608) 263-2600
Please contact Jennifer Weber (jennifer.weber@wisc.edu) if you need help with room reservations.
Joining the Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium
Consortium members:
- Influence research directions
- Identify potential future employees through early contact with students
- Receive reduced rates at selected supporting facilities
AMIC Annual Meeting
Please join us for the 2016 Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium meeting, Thursday, September 8th at the Fluno center. There will be opportunities for structured networking, with industrial presentations, parallel sessions of focused topic talks, a student poster session & facilities tours.
Focused parallel session topics:
1. Computation & Data Analytics
2. Polymer Engineering
3. Materials & Microbial Systems
4. Materials & Manufacturing
These sessions will be populated with talks addressing important questions, recent developments & current challenges.
Student Poster Session along with Dinner and Networking
Industry presenters
Eric Apfelbach, Vice-Chairman, Ensync Energy Systems
Eric Apfelbach was the Chief Executive Officer of EnSync Energy Systems (formerly known as ZBB Energy Corporation) from January 2010 through July 2015, and continues to serve on the EnSync board of directors. Prior to joining EnSync, Eric was involved in the start-up of multiple technology companies. As President and founding CEO of Virent Energy Systems, Inc, he grew the company to over 80 people and attracted strategic partners Shell, Cargill & Honda to position the company as one of the top advanced biofuels companies in the world.
Amir Mashal, Thermofisher Scientific
Amir Mashal is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, minoring in Materials Science and Engineering. He also works in the Research and Advanced Development division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Mashal received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His advisor is Professor Michael Arnold of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. The major focus of his research is on carbon nanomaterial electronics, working on projects ranging from multilayer graphene energy storage to graphene photodetectors to the characterization of aligned carbon nanotubes. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Session: "Polymer Engineering"
Prof. Osswald teaches polymer processing, designing with polymers and polymer composites processing. His research in polymer engineering includes modeling and simulation in polymer processing, engineering design with plastics, sustainability and biopolymers. Prof. Osswald is also co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is Honorary Professor of Plastics Technology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany an the National University of Colombia. He has served as a consultant to several industries, is one of the co-founders of The Madison Group, and is the Director of the Technical Advisory Board of SIMTEC Silicone Parts.
Prof. Pfefferkorn's teaching and research are focused on manufacturing processes and heat transfer as it applies to manufacturing processes. His work goals are to: (1) educate/develop manufacturing and heat transfer engineers/workforce, and (2) help move thermally-assisted manufacturing, friction stir welding, micro end milling, and pulsed laser polishing from arts to science-based technologies that will help innovate manufacturing.
Prof. Nick Abbott Session: "Materials and Microbial Systems"
Prof. Dane Morgan
Session: "Computation and Data Analytics"
- Prof. Morgan co-directs the Wisconsin Materials Institute and works on a wide variety of computational materials science topics. His research interests span a variety of computationally centered topics including Computational materials science for materials design, ab initio electronic struture methods and multiscale techniques for large time/length scales and thermokinetics, ab initio based modeling of electrochemical systems and processes, as well as we application areas in nuclear materials, battery and fuel cell electrodes, earth mantle materials and electronics materials. Recently, he started the materials informatics skunkworks group to help bring computational resources and student projects to the forefront of industrial applications and develoment.
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