The Colorado School of Mines’ ADAPT program has won second prize in the 3D Printing Industry Awards, recognized in the “Academic, Research Team or Project” category. “ADAPT is thrilled to receive honorable mention among a prestigious group of nominees,” said Joy Gockel, associate professor in Mechanical Engineering and executive director of ADAPT. “This recognition is a testament to the valuable interdisciplinary research that we do here in ADAPT and the support of our industry partners. All credit goes to the numerous Mines faculty, staff and students who lead our mission of advancing fundamental knowledge of additive manufacturing to support industrial implementation.”
The shortlist for the award was compiled from public nominations worldwide and insights from a committee of 3D printing experts. After the initial selection, public voting contributed to the final decision. First place in the competition was awarded to the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing.
ADAPT operates as a multi-disciplinary additive manufacturing research center and industry consortium, incorporating fields such as mechanical engineering, metallurgy and materials science, computer science and physics. The research strengths of the ADAPT center include materials development and characterization, processing-structure-property relationships, additive manufacturing process control and part qualification, machine learning and big data mining, and data informatics.
