Yayue Pan

Assistant Professor

College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) is a class of technologies that build a 3D object directly from digital models. AM has been widely recognized as a disruptive manufacturing technology for a wide variety of applications including aerospace, defense, biomedical and consumer products. In addition, AM potentially enables revolutionary designs by incorporating complex three-dimensional shapes, heterogeneous material properties and multi-functionalities. Such potentials, if fully realized, would fundamentally change the design and fabrication of future engineering systems.
Our research goal is to advance the understanding of various facets of AM and to promote its wide application in future engineering systems, by integrating both physics-based manufacturing and computation-based design and control techniques. The following are some topics that our team is working on:
(1)Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing technologies development:
--New CAD/design methodology for additive manufacturing;
--Modeling & simulation of various additive manufacturing processes;
--Novel process development for accurate and reliable digital manufacturing and 3D printing.
(2)Innovative product and system development by combining the advantages of traditional manufacturing and additive manufacturing technologies.

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