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November, 2024

New Horizon Europe Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow Mert Gülçür joins the NDML. Welcome Mert!

November, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering in Houston, TX on “Precision Engineering Challenges in Advanced Semiconductor Packaging”

November, 2024

Dr. Cullinan has received this year's Outstanding Teaching by an Associate or Full Professor Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering

October, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at the University of Minho in Guimarães, Portugal on “Research in the Nanoscale Design and Manufacturing Laboratory at UT-Austin”

September, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at the Sandia National Laboratory/Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual User Meeting on “Machine Learning-enabled Nanometrology and Process Control”

September, 2024

Welcome to new NDML lab members Ang Gao, Gavin Stafford, and Seungjun Lee! 

September, 2024

Dr. Cullinan named to the Distinguished Leadership Service Academy at the University of Texas at Austin

https://provost.utexas.edu/2024/09/06/2024-25-cohort-of-the-provosts-distinguished-leadership-service-academy/

September, 2024

The NDML has been awarded a new Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) project from the National Science Foundation with The University of Michigan and NXP Semiconductors to investigate "Uncertainty Aware Modeling and Control of the Microscale Selective Laser Sintering Process".

July, 2024

Congratulations to the Texas Institute for Electronics on their $840 million award through DARPA’s Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense! We are looking forward to collaborating on this effort!

https://news.utexas.edu/2024/07/18/uts-texas-institute-for-electronics-awarded-840m-to-build-a-dod-microelectronics-manufacturing-center-advance-u-s-semiconductor-industry/

July, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at the ASPE-EUSPEN Topical Meeting on Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing in Golden, CO on “A Review of the State-of-the-Art and Precision Engineering Challenges in Micro/Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing,” 

June, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at NASA's Glenn Research Center on "Copper-Graphene-Based Composite Conductors for Aerospace Applications”

May, 2024

Congratulations to NDML member Joshua Grose who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis as well as NDML members Tyler Watts, Rachel Paddock and Yohannes Bekele who submitted their Master’s theses!

March, 2024

Dr. Cullinan named founding director of the new Semiconductor Science and Engineering Program at UT-Austin

https://news.utexas.edu/2024/03/20/semiconductor-masters-program-will-offer-hands-on-experience-in-rapidly-growing-industry/

February, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2024 in San Jose, CA on “Manufacturing and Metrology of 3D Holographic Structure Nanopatterns in Roll-to-Roll Fabrication” 

January, 2024

NDML is awarded a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a research project as part of the "Structural Evaluation through Non-contact Sensor Embedding (SENSE)" program to develop multifunctional metal parts with embedded sensing systems for integrated structural health monitoring.

https://www.tmi.utexas.edu/news-events/322-michael-cullinan-receives-darpa-grant

January, 2024

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at Sandia National Laboratory's Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies on  “Challenges and Opportunities in the Fabrication and Packaging of Next Generation Electronic and Nanostructured Devices”, 

September, 2023

Welcome to new NDML lab members Andrew Gray, Joshua Cielo, Luis Aguirre, and Emmanuel Bamido!

September, 2023

Dr. Cullinan named the new Associate Chair for Graduate Education in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

August, 2023

Congratulations to NDML members David Cayll and Chenyang Lou who successfully defended their Ph.D. theses and Aaron Liao who submitted his Master’s thesis!

August, 2023
June, 2023

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at National Institute of Standards and Technology on “Challenges and Opportunities in the Fabrication and Packaging of Next Generation Electronic and Nanostructured Devices”

March, 2023

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at TechBlick's Conference on Digital & 3D Printed Electronics "Additive Manufacturing of Metal Interconnects using Microscale Selective Laser Sintering.” 

January, 2023

Dr. Cullinan gives and invited talk on “Additive Manufacturing of Metal Interconnects using Microscale Selective Laser Sintering” at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco

October, 2022

NDML awarded $3 million Future Manufacturing grant by the National Science Foundation for a new nanoscale 3D printing technique that could overcome current limitations in nanomanufacturing along with Chih-Hao Chang, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering; Michael Baldea, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering; Zak Page, Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences; Rajesh Menon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah; and Nick Jackson, Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

September, 2022

NDML awarded grant from the Air Force Research Lab and the Space Force to develop a scalable additive manufacturing technique for producing high quality telescope mirrors.

September, 2022

Welcome to new NDML lab members Farzana Tasnim, Yohannes Bekele, Rachel Paddock, and James Garcia!

August, 2022

Congratulations to new Masters graduates Barbara and Eva!

June, 2022

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk on “Microscale Additive Manufacturing of Metal Interconnects using Microscale Selective Laser Sintering” at The 65th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication in New Orleans

May, 2022

Congratulations to new Ph.D. graduates Dipankar, Liam, and Georgiana as well as new masters graduate Makenna!

February, 2022

NDML awarded new $650k grant to develop ultra-conductive copper wires for lunar high voltage power transmission by NASA along with co-investigatiors Mehran Tehrani and Yuanyue Liu.

February, 2022

NDML awarded an NSF Partnerships for Innovation grant to commercialize the microscale selective laser sintering process

January, 2022

Congratulations to Barbara for receiving the RV Jones award from ASPE and Aaron for receiving the ASPE Student Scholarship Award

October, 2021

Dr. Cullinan a was awarded the 2021 Early Career Award from the American Society for Precision Engineering at their annual conference in Minneapolis, MN this year. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141635921002981?via%...)

September, 2021

Dr. Cullinan gives an invited talk at the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing Conference in St. Gallen Switzerland on the state-of-the-art and precision engineering challenges in micro/nanoscale additive manufacturing

July, 2021

NDML awarded an NSF I-Corps grant to explore the commercialization potential of the µ-SLS process.

April, 2021

Congratulations to NDML member Eva Natinsky selected for the 2021 National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program! (https://research.utexas.edu/showcase/articles/view/texas-engineers-selected-for-2021-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program)

January, 2021

Makenna Hayes and Yuanjun Fan join the NDML. Makenna will be working on designing and testing nanomaterial-based electrodes for sensing electrical signals in muscles and using those signals to determine the right electrical stimulus that can be applied to the muscle for rehabilitation applications. Yuanjun will be working on the design and fabrication of graphene-based electromechanical transducers.

October, 2020

Welcome to our newest NDML member, M.S./Ph.D. student Barbara Groh who will be studying alignment and precision in roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing.

September, 2020

Dr. Cullinan promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

August, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Martin Ward for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on wafers-scale exfoliation of thin-film silicon.

June, 2020

NDML researchers Georgina Dibua, Anil Yuksel, Nilabh Roy, and Michael Cullinan awarded the Kornel F. Ehmann Manufacturing Medal by the American Society of Mechancial Engineers for their best orignial paper related to micro- or nano-scale manufacturing processes or products.

January, 2020

NDML hosts American Society for Precision Engineering's winter topical meeting on Precision Engineering for Micro and Nanotechnologies with a special session on Precision Engineering for Quantum Devices

https://aspe.net/aspe-winter-2020-agenda/

September, 2019

The NDML extends its welcome to new M.S./Ph.D. student Eva Natinsky who will be studying error correction and visualization in very large area nanotopography measurements.

August, 2019

Extending a well deserved congrats to Dr. Joon Cho for sucessfully defending his Ph.D. thesis AND recieving a post-doctoral grant to continue his work on graphene devices at the National Institute of Standards and Technology!

April, 2019

Dr. Cullinan appointed as a Walker Scholar for the department of mechanical engineering.

March, 2019

Dr. Cullinan named as an experiential learning ambassador by the university for his work on incorporating hands-on projects into the mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum. https://provost.utexas.edu/news/2019-eli-faculty-course-developer-stipends

December, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Ian Ladner for his sucessful defense and graduation! He's now off to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory!

November, 2018

Ph.D Candidates Martin Ward, Dipankar Behera, and Liam G. Connolly present papers and David Cayll presents a poster on Silicon Wafer Exfoliation, Micro-scale Slective Laser Sintering, Tip-based Nanometrology, and Graphene-based MEMS sensors at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Precision Engineering in Las Vegas, NV. Congratulations to David Cayll for winning a Best Poster!

August, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Tsung-Fu Yao for his sucessful defense and graduation!

August, 2018

Ph.D Candidate Anil Yuskel presents his paper on Thermal Conductance in Nanoparticles at the International Technical Conference on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Micosystems (InterPACK) in San Fransisco, CA.

August, 2018

The NDML Welcomes new memebrs Chenyang Lou and Joshua Grose!

August, 2018

Ph.D Candidates Dipankar Behera and Georgina Dibua, and Dr. Nilabh Roy present papers on Micro-scale Selective Laser Sintering at the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, TX.

June, 2018

Ph.D Candidate Georgina Dibua presents her paper on a Nanoparticle Sintering Model  at the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference in College Station, TX.

June, 2018

Congratulations to Ph.D Candidate Joon Cho for winning the H. Grady Rylander Longhorn Mechanical Engineering Club Excellence in Teaching Fellowship!

June, 2018

Ph.D Candidate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Research Assistant Ian Ladner presents a paper on behalf of the NDML on MEMS Tensile Testing of 3D Printed Microstructures at the Solid-State Sensors, Acutators, and Microsystems Workshop in Hilton Head, SC.

May, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Nilabh Roy for his sucessful defense and graduation! 

May, 2018

Ph.D Candidate Anil Yuskel presents at the Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems in San Diego, CA.

May, 2018

Congratulations to M.S. Student Cheng Zhao for Graduating!

October, 2017

NDML Research Assitants Martin Ward, Cheng Zhao, and Liam G. Connolly present posters and Ph.D Candidated Ian Ladner and Nilabh Roy present papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering in Charlotte, NC. A big congradulations to Martin Ward for winning the Best Poster Award and to the NDML Student Compeitition team for taking home 1'st Place!

August, 2017

Ph.D Candidate Nilabh Roy presents on the Addidtive Manufactureing of Integrated Circuit Interconnect Structures at the ASME Technical Conference on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems in San Francisco, CA.

August, 2017

NDML Graduate Students Nilabh Roy, Anil Yiksel, and Georgina Dubia present on aspects of Micro Selective Laser Sintering at the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, TX

August, 2017

The NDML welcomes new M.S./Ph.D. Student David Cayll!

July, 2017

Anil Yuksel presents on behalf of the NDML on Thermal Energy Transport in 3D Nanoparticles at the ASME  Summer Heat Transfer Conference at Bellevue, WA.

June, 2017

Ph.D Candidates Joon Cho and Anil Yuksel, and Dr. Cullinan present papers on Micro Selective Laser Sintering and Tip-based Nanometrology at the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.

March, 2017

Congratulations to NDML M.S./Ph.D student Liam G. Connolly for recieving a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

October, 2016

Ph.D Candidates Tsung-Fu Yao  and Nilabh Roy present a paper and a poster, and Undergraduate Research Assistant Andrew Duenner presents a poster at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering.

August, 2016

NDML Graduate Students Anil Yuskel, Dan Moser, and Nilabh Roy present papers on various aspects of the Micro-scale Selective Laser Sintering process at the Interational Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, TX.

August, 2016

The NDML welcomes new M.S. and Ph.D Students Dipankar Behera, Georgina Dubia, Cheng Zhao, Liam G. Connolly, and Martin Ward! 

June, 2016

Ph.D Candidates Tsung-Fu Yao, Joon Cho, and Nilabh Roy present papers on behalf of the NDML at the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference in Blacksburg, VA.

June, 2016

Ph.D Candidate Joon Cho presents a paper at the 60th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technolgy and Nanofabrication in Pittsburg, PA

November, 2015

NDML Students Ian Ladner, Guoao Sun, Tsung-Fu Yao, and Andrew Duenner present papers at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Precision Engineering in Austin, Texas.

November, 2015

NDML students Ian Ladner, Nilabh Roy, Tsung-Fu Yao, and Andrew Duenner win student competition at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Precision Engineering. Congratulations Team!

August, 2015

NDML Students Nilabh Roy and Anil Yuskel present their work on microscale selective laser sintering at the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, Texas.

June, 2015

Dr. Cullinan presents NDML's work on precision multi-axis MEMS force sensors at Transducers 2015.

February, 2015

New undergraduate student Andrew Duenner joins the NDML. Welcome Andrew.

February, 2015

New graduate student Anil Yuskel joins the Nanoscale Design and Manufacturing Laboratory. Welcome Anil.

November, 2014

NDML member Ian Ladner presents his work on precision MEMS force sensors at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Precision Engineering in Boston, MA. 

September, 2014

Tsung-Fu Yao, Guoao Sun, Joon Hyong Cho, and Nilabh Roy join the NDML. Welcome to the new members.

June, 2014

Dr. Cullinan presents the work on the carbon nanotube printing system developed by the NDML at the 2014 Hilton Head Workshop on Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems.

February, 2014

The Nanoscale Design and Manufacturing Laboratory hosts visit by Chris Spadaccini from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

October, 2013

Ian Ladner joins the Nanoscale Design and Manufacturing Laboratory.

October, 2013

Dr. Cullinan attends Army Research Office workshop on Issues and Challenges in Nanomanufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, and Advanced Manufacturing.

September, 2013

Dr. Cullinan joins the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.