The 2022 SEAMTN research projects have been selected. These projects will enable SEAMTN partners to collaborate with university faculty and advance manufacturing capabilities for the greater Tennessee Valley. The project titles and University of Tennessee principal investigators are listed below.

• Chad Duty, Thermally Induced Distortion & Cracking of Large-Scale Thin-Wall Polymer Composite Printed Structures, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering,
• Uday Vaidya, Innovative Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) Intermediates for Automotive Lightweighting and Battery Enclosures, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering,
• Rupy Sawhney and Bradley Jared, Multi-physics Modeling for Defect Detection Based on Thermal Imaging of Powder Bed Fusing-Produced Parts, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Jindong Tan, Development of Machine Learning Methods for Part Inspection and Trajectory Planning Tasks using Robotic Manipulators in Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Reza Abedi, Multiscale elastic and failure analysis of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) printed materials using Statistical Volume Elements (SVEs), Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Zhongshun “Tony” Shi, Data-Driven Milling Dynamics Identification for Continuous Improvement of Productivity, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Hugh Medal, Measuring the Benefits of Integrating Machine Learning-Based Tool Life Predictions in Inventory Management, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Bradley Jared, Thermal Compensation for Stabilizing Melt Pool Dynamics in Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Himanshu Thapliyal, Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) Based Security Framework for Additive Manufacturing, Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science