Join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for the first seminar of 2025! On Wednesday, January 22nd, we welcome Aaron Stebner from Georgia Tech. Catch his talk in Maryland Hall room 100 from 3-4pm.
Abstract: The AI Manufacturing Pilot Facility
The 20k ft2 Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF) operated by Georgia Tech is being renovated into a 75k+ ft2 AI Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AIMPF). Manufacturers cannot accept 100% of the risk and cost of maturing AI manufacturing technologies beyond proof-of-concept demonstrations without detriment to existing operations and supply chains. AIMPF will provide a world-leading environment for cooperative industry-academia-government pilot trials and innovation of new technologies, cybersecurity games, and workforce training to innovate, transition, and create AI manufacturing technologies and workforce without risk. AIMPF will operate reconfigurable, digitally integrated, automated test tracks for manufacturing with structural and energy materials spanning synthesis, semi-finished goods, finished goods, manufacturing quality systems, characterization and metrology, reducing energy footprints and CO2 emissions, resource management, recycling capabilities, data management, mm-wave wireless communications, and cyber-physical security. AIMPF extends the concept of “self-driving labs” to create a semi-autonomous user facility.
Bio: Aaron Stebner
Prof. Stebner works at the intersection of manufacturing, machine learning, materials, and mechanics. He directs the Georgia Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing (GA-AIM) economic development corridor and is leading the design and implementation of the Georgia Tech AI Manufacturing Pilot Facility. Prof. Stebner joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering in 2020. He also served as the Deputy Editor for the journal Additive Manufacturing. Previously, he was the Rowlinson Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines (2013 – 2020), a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (2012 – 2013), a Lecturer in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University (2009 – 2012), a Research Scientist at Telezygology Inc. establishing manufacturing and “internet of things” technologies for shape memory alloy-secured latching devices (2008-2009), a Research Fellow at the NASA Glenn Research Center developing smart materials technologies for morphing aircraft structures (2006 – 2008), and a Mechanical Engineer at the Electric Device Corporation in Canfield, OH developing manufacturing and automation technologies for the circuit breaker industry (1995 – 2000).
He has won numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation (USA) CAREER award (2014), the Colorado School of Mines Researcher of the Year Award (2017), a Long-term Invitational Fellowship for Research from the Japan Society for the Preservation of Science (JSPS, 2019), and the Associate Professor Research Award from the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech (2023).