Welcome

Greetings from Suman Das, Director of the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory and the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Georgia Tech.
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Welcome to the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory and Research Group in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Our mission is to conduct cutting edge Additive Manufacturing research at the intersection of advanced design methods, manufacturing and materials processing technologies, and materials science. We aim to invent groundbreaking world class technologies that will have positive societal and economic impacts across a wide variety of industries encompassing the aerospace, biomedical, energy and nanotechnology sectors. I invite you to navigate our web site and explore our ongoing research.

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Read the recent news releases about our research, commercialization and academic service efforts:

Materials Research Society
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=MRS&volumeId=40&issueId=02

Engineering.com
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/8485/DDM-Systems-Announces-Availability-of-LAMP-AM-Systems-in-Q2-2015.aspx

3Ders.org
http://www.3ders.org//articles/20140911-lamp-3d-printers-to-transform-manufacture-of-complex-metal-parts.html

ACerS Bulletin April 2014
americanceramicsociety.org/bulletin/2014/pdf/apr14.pdf

Atlanta Business Chronicle
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/07/12/startup-helps-3d-printing-take-flight.html?page=all

Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
http://www.manufacturing.gatech.edu/news-events/georgia-tech-startup-helps-3d-printing-take-flight

NextGov
http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2012/05/pentagon-funded-researchers-refine-3-d-printing/55833/

Georgia Tech home page
http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=131491

Georgia Tech research news:
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/direct-digital-casting-process/

Machine Design Magazine
http://machinedesign.com/article/investment-casting-goes-digital-0823

Foundry Magazine
http://www.foundrymag.com/frontpage/feature/88814/molding_concept_may_speed_investment_casting

Advanced Materials and Processes - ASM International
http://www.asminternational.org/portal/site/www/NewsItem/?vgnextoid=22d8766ed14a7310VgnVCM100000621e010aRCRD

http://www.asminternational.org/portal/site/www/NewsItem/?vgnextoid=06d60cd1efd97310VgnVCM100000621e010aRCRD

Manufacturing.net
http://www.manufacturing.net/articles/2012/05/casting-process-could-transform-how-metal-parts-are-made

Manufacturing Technology Blog
http://www.manufacturingtechnology.org/2012/06/novel-casting-process-could-change-way.html

Plastics Today
http://www.asminternational.org/portal/site/www/NewsItem/?vgnextoid=22d8766ed14a7310VgnVCM100000621e010aRCRD

EurekAlert news service:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/giot-ddn051812.php

Newswise news service:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/process-could-transform-manufacture-of-complex-parts

Phys Org
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-digital-complex-metal.html

R&D Magazine
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/05/Manufacturing-Novel-Casting-Process-Could-Transform-How-Complex-Metal-Parts-Are-Made/

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/MEGeorgiaTech/posts/330372440366858