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June 1, 2009 LFF member Carolyn Seepersad is the 2009 recipient of the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award. The presentation will be made at the Awards Banquet August 3 at the 20th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, Texas.
March 30-31, 2009 LFF Director Dave Bourell organized and led the National Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing Workshop at the NSF Headquarters in the Washington DC area. Co-organized with Ming Leu of the Missouri Institute for Science and Technology and Dave Rosen of Georgia Tech, the workshop had 65 participants from industry, academe and government.
February 17, 2009 Dave Bourell, Director of the LFF, received the Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division of The Mining, Metals and Materials Society. The award recognizes an individual who has made a long lasting contribution to design, syntheses, processing and performance of engineering materials, with significant industrial applications.
Welcome to the website for the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication (LFF) at The University of Texas at Austin.
The LFF was founded in 1988, following student Carl Deckard's remarkable invention of Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), one of the first freeform fabrication processes. Faculty in the LFF are active in research in diverse areas related to freeform fabrication. I hope you will peruse other parts of the website to see what current research is being undertaken. We have several commercial SLS sinterstations as well as a number of research machines constructed on campus. The LFF is host to the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, first held in 1990 and the longest continuously running annual meeting dealing with research in freeform fabrication.
Researchers in the LFF represent considerable depth and breadth, including process development, materials, applications and modeling. Research includes major funding from national funding agencies as well as industrial projects of varying size and duration. An Industrial Affiliates Program provides special opportunities for industry to interact with the Lab.
The LFF is part of the Advanced Manufacturing Center which was established in 2004 to initiate, support, and coordinate research and education in advanced manufacturing and materials processing, to disseminate the results of this research to potential users, and to promote and provide resources for education in this field.
I invite you to visit the LFF if your travels bring you to the Austin area.
David L. Bourell
Director, Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication