Manufacturing Day
Celebrate National Manufacturing Day at Virginia Tech!
Friday, October 3
Poster Presentations
10 am - 12:30 pm, Goodwin Hall Atrium
635 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA
Featuring work from these labs:
- Advanced STRuctures and Optimization (ASTRO) Lab with Pinar Acar, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Design, Research and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Lab with Chris Williams, L.S. Randolph Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Field and Space Experimental Robotics Laboratory with Erik Komendera, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Intelligent Multiscale Mechanics for Predictive Advanced Computational Technology (IMMPACT) Laboratory with Sourav Saha, Associate Professor in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
- Manufacturing and Tribology Laboratory with Bart Raeymaekers, Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Polymer Composite and Materials Laboratory with Michael Bortner, Professor in Chemical Engineering
- Smart Manufacturing Analytics Research & Technology (SMART) Lab with Zhenyu “James” Kong, Ralph H. Bogle Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Soft Materials and Structures Lab with Michael Bartlett, Associate Professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering
- Stochastic Engineering Analysis & Design (SEAD) Lab with Jie Chen, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Lab Tours
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
The Learning Factory
Durham Hall, 197
DREAMS Lab
Durham Hall, 181
What is Manufacturing Day?
Celebrated annually on the first Friday in October, with events continuing throughout the month and beyond, MFG Day—Manufacturing Day—is a national grassroots movement that demonstrates the reality and future of modern manufacturing careers. Thousands of companies and educational institutions nationwide are invited to open their doors to students, parents, educators and community leaders.
MFG Day, an initiative of the Manufacturing Institute—the workforce development and education affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers—empowers manufacturers to come together and address their collective challenges and build excitement about manufacturing careers to help their communities and future generations thrive.