Upcoming Events:
ASME IMECE 2025, Portland, OR
MSEC/NAMRC 2025, Clemson University, NC
Past Events:
Congratulations to Weiting Lin, Yu-Jung Chang, and Prawin Sankar on graduating with an MS degree from UC Davis!
Felicia Fashanu presented a poster and Barbara Linke two papers at the joint 2024 MSEC/NAMRC conferences.
Barbara Linke finished her 5 year term on the Executive Board of the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) in June 2024. She also became Fellow of ASME in September 2023 (photos are from the ASME MSEC Award ceremony in June 2024 and a courtesy of ASME /SME).
Maya Rohrer, Brandon Gee and Kholoud Bashayan presented their research at the 35th UC Davis Annual Undergraduate Research Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference in April 2024.
Congratulations to Akshay Sathe and Riddhi Thavi on graduating with an MS degree from UC Davis!
Felicia Fashanu, Riddhi Thavi and Barbara Linke presented a paper at the 2023 ASME MSEC conference and attended the joint MSEC/NAMRC conferences.
Dr.-Ing. Marcus Grum and Dr. Benedict Bender visited UC Davis in November 2022 and offered four evening seminars on “Platforms & Artificial Intelligence in the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Context”: https://lswi.de/lehrstuhl/blog/winter-school-an-der-uc-davis?lang=en
Barbara Linke presented at the Aachen Conference on Machining, September 21-22, 2022, Aachen, Germany on smart and sustainable machining.
Barbara Linke presented a paper at the 2022 ASME MSEC conference and attended the joint MSEC/NAMRC conferences. She hosted the 2022 ASME/SME Student Manufacturing Design Competition at Purdue University on June 28, 2022.
Congratulations to Wesley Watson, Christopher Romero and Alexander Aaldering on graduating with an MS degree from UC Davis!
Barbara Linke was featured in the College of Engineering’s 2022 International Women’s Day feature (https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-barbara-linke).
Barbara Linke was named a Chancellor’s Fellow in 2021-22: Barbara Linke Named UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Xiange Wang and Philip Kent Velbis presented a paper at the MSEC 2021. Felicia Fashanu, Julianne Emily Jonsson, Ian Garretson, and Barbara Linke presented posters at the same conference. Barbara Linke co-organized the second Women in Advanced Manufacturing (WIAM) Forum and the NSF Early Career Forum at NAMRC/MSEC 2021.
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Garretson graduating from UC Davis with a PhD degree! The thesis is titled Parameterized Energy Efficiency Models in Grinding Machine Tools.
Congratulations to Xiange Wang and Alex Georgens on graduating with an MS degree from UC Davis!
Felicia Fashanu published a paper on Review of Surface Finishing of Additively Manufactured Metal Implants at the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) 2020, sponsored by ASME.
Congratulations to Dr. Destiny Garcia on graduating from UC Davis with a PhD degree with a thesis on Optimization of Metrological Characterization of Machining Distortions!
Barbara Linke presented on the U.S. and North American abrasives market and developments at the 6th European Conference on Grinding, November 19–20th 2019, Bremen (www.ecg-2019.de/en).
Congratulations to Akshay Kamath on graduating from UC Davis with a MS degree with a thesis on Data Collection and Analysis in Manual Grinding for the Industrial Internet of Things!
For the 6th year, Barbara Linke and her students taught about manufacturing in the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) summer program, July 2019.
Barbara Linke joined the Executive Committee of the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) on July 1, 2019 (https://community.asme.org/med_executive/groupleadership.aspx).
(picture courtesy of Penn State and SME NAMRI)
Barbara Linke was technical program co-chair of ASME’s MSEC2019 conference, hosted by Penn State Behrend’s School of Engineering, June 10-14, 2019, Erie, PA. She co-organized the first Women in Advanced Manufacturing (WIAM) Forum at MSEC 2019 on June 11. Linke also presented Ian Garretson’s and her poster on Refurbishing a force-controlled grinding machine tool for higher sustainability.
Shivam Gupta presented at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference on April 26, 2019.
Destiny Garcia, Ian Garretson, and Barbara Linke co-taught the First Year Seminar Pens, Tablets, and Automobiles: An Introduction to Sustainable Manufacturing and Design, Spring Quarter 2019.
Barbara Linke organized the Second NSF/DFG workshop on U.S./Germany- Collaborative Research on Advanced Manufacturing, April 2-4, 2019, in Herndon, VA.
Destiny Garcia hosted a Mini Conference I am first: Navigating Graduate School with a Proactive Mindset on March 9, 2019.
We hosted a Lab Open House on February 15, 2019 from 10 am -12 pm in 1334 Bainer (Flyer for MASTeR Lab Showcase).
Students Maja Beltz and Sebastian Quaisser performed a practical semester at the Master lab (https://www.h-brs.de/en/emt/news/professor-reith-visits-emt-students-uc-davis).
Akshay Kamath presented at the 16th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing,Lexington, Kentucky, on October 3, 2018 (https://gcsm.eu/).
Akshay Kamath presented at the Annual Meeting of the IRTG2057 “Physical Modeling for Virtual Manufacturing Systems and Processes” from September 24 – 28, 2018 in Granlibakken, CA.
Barbara Linke was a panelist at the IIT Madras Technology Summit & Director’s Update 2018 on September 8, 2018 in Santa Clara. A report can be found here: IITM Technology Summit 2018
Destiny Garcia, Ian Garretson and Barbara Linke attended and presented at the ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) 2018 and the 46th NAMRI/SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), June 18-22, 2018, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas (https://msec-namrc-2018.tamu.edu/). There, Barbara Linke co-organized the 2018 RAMP Workshop.
Ian Garretson is won 3rd place at the 2018 NIST RAMP: Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes Challenge in June, 2018 for his Solution: A Production Line for Polylactide Business Card Holders (https://www.challenge.gov/challenge/ramp-reusable-abstractions-of-manufacturing-processes/). Destiny Garcia won the Best Graduate Student Research Award for her poster on Technical and Environmental Aspects of Quality Assurance.
Destiny Garcia won the participation for the 2018-2019 Professors for the Future program at UC Davis. She was awarded at the 2018 Graduate Studies Honors and Awards Ceremony in May 2018.
Destiny Garcia, Ian Garretson, Renan Ribeiro, and Chris D’Elia presented at the IRTG 2057 Fall meeting 2017 at UC Davis (http://www.irtg2057.de/).
Jayanti Das won second place for the 2017 RAMP: Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes Competition by NIST in June 2017 (https://www.challenge.gov/challenge/ramp-reusable-abstractions-of-manufacturing-processes-2017/).
Destiny Garcia, Jayanti Das, Ian Garretson, and Barbara Linke presented at the 12th Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2017) and North American Manufacturing Research Conference 45 (NAMRC45), June 04 – June 08, 2017, at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Barbara Linke presented at the 124th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 25 – 28 on Design and Manufacturing of Nozzles and Airfoil Shapes for Compressible Flow Visualizations in a New Engineering Course, and ASEE International Forum, June 28, Columbus, Ohio on Benefits and Multi-cultural learning in an International Research Training Group between Germany and the U.S.
Barbara Linke presented at the International Conference on Microscale Morphology of Component Surfaces (MICOS) 2016, October 20 – 21, 2016 in Kaiserslautern, Germany (http://www.sfb926.de) on Surface generation in abrasive processes with examples of aesthetic appearance and bacteria attachment. The presentation was co-authored by Jayanti Das.
Destiny Garcia, Ian Garretson and Michael Taylor presented at the IRTG 2057 Fall meeting 2016 at UC Berkeley. The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Physical Modeling for Virtual Manufacturing Systems and Processes” connects doctoral students and researchers at the University of Kaiserslautern, UC Davis and UC Berkeley (http://www.irtg2057.de/).
Barbara Linke presented on Research in Germany at the ASME MSEC 2014, MSEC2015, MSEC2016, and MSEC2017.
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The lab hosted the California Forum on Energy Efficient Manufacturing (CaFEEM) on on October 1, 2015 at UC Davis (Link to CaFEEM flyer v2). The event was organized by Drs. Paul Harris and Barbara Linke. Here is the detailed agenda: CaFEEM agenda (website)
Paul Harris and Barbara Linke participated and presented at the 2015 International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing, presented by the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing at the University of Kentucky, Sept. 24 – 25, 2015.