LATEST NEWS News Archive
March 1, 2008 LFF members Phani V and Mustafa Abbasi explain freeform fabrication to hundreds of parents and students at Explore UT, The University of Texas' statewide open house.
January 28, 2008 Joe Beaman, Chair of Mechanical Engineering and LFF member, is the recipient of a 2008 Women in Engineering Advocate Award this week. The Women in Engineering Advocate Award recognizes an outstanding faculty member, viewed by students and Women in Engineering Program as helping advance women in the field of engineering.
December 10, 2007 Dave Bourell, Director of the LFF, visited Drs. Kevin McAlea and Thomas Pang at 3D Systems Corporate Headquarters in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
November 8, 2007 The LFF provided just over 260 freeformed parts for the UT System Board of Regents banquet, per a request from the UT President's Office. Kudos to Brian South and friends for making this happen.
November 5, 2007 The LFF is pleased to welcome Mark Phillips as a new staff member supporting the lab. His responsibilities will include machine maintenance/operation and general oversight of the LFF facilities and supplies.
September 28, 2007 Students and faculty from the LFF visit and tour service bureau Harvest Technologies in Belton, Texas.
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