2018

  • October 3, 2018 – Presented the completed projects of “A Framework to Manage Data Associated with Additive Manufacturing” and “Material Property Matrix and Information Management for Additive Manufacturing (AM)” at the Industry Advisory Board Meeting of the Center for e-Design.
  • August 27, 2018 – Dr. Thomas Hagedorn receives ASME CIE Best Dissertation Award.
  • August 27, 2018 – Prof. Ian Grosse receives ASME CIE Distinguished Service Award.
  • August 27, 2018 – Presented Zhuo Yang’s paper of “A Super-Metamodeling Framework to Optimize System Predictability” at the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference in Quebec City, Canada.
  • June 12, 2018 – Dissertation defense of Zhuo Yang of “Model-Based Predictive Analytics for Additive and Smart Manufacturing”.
  • May 22, 2018 – Dr. Doug Eddy attends the Office of Naval Research - NEU Cyber in Digital Manufacturing Workshop conducted at Northeastern University's Research Institute for Homeland Security in Burlington, Massachusetts. 
  • April 11, 2018 – Presented the completed project of “Predictive Metamodels for Additive and Other Smart Manufacturing” at the Industry Advisory Board Meeting of the Center for e-Design.
  • April 2, 2018 - Presented a poster of Zhuo Yang’s work of “Integrated Statistical Metamodeling Methods for Advanced Manufacturing” at NIST’s Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2018 in Gaithersburg, MD.

2017

  • December 2017 – Dissertation defense of Thomas Hagedorn of “Supporting the Design for Additively Manufactured Medical Devices with Knowledge Management through Ontologies”.
  • July 19, 2017 – Presented “Decision Support System for Additive Manufacturing (DS-SAM)” at Raytheon Company in Andover, MA.
  • April 5, 2017 – Presented “Design Decision Support for MBE with Information Modeling” at NIST’s Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2017 in Gaithersburg, MD.
  • April 3, 2017 - UMass Center for e-Design presents at the MatOnto Ontology meeting Professor Ian Grosse and UMass Center for e-Design student Tom Hagedorn both remotely presented talks at the MatOnto Workshop held at the University of Buffalo April 3, 2017.Tom Hagedorn presented a talk entitled, “ Dr. Ian Grosse presented a talk entitled: “SLACKS: Semantic Laminated Composite Knowledge System”
  • April 5, 2017 – Dr. Doug Eddy presented “Design Decision Support for MBE with Information Modeling” at NIST’s Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2017 in Gaithersburg, MD.
  • April 10, 2017 - e-Design Team Attends 2nd IOF Workshop. Dr. Ian Grosse and UMass Center for e-Design doctoral candidate Tom Hagedorn attended the second meeting of the Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) April 10-11, 2017.
  • May 2017 - UMass Center for e-Design Presents at 2017 IAB Meeting Drs. Sundary Krishnamurty and Doug Eddy and UMass Center for e-Design doctoral student Shreyas Patil attended semi-annual Center for e-Design IAB Meeting and Penn State.
  • July 19, 2017 – Dr. Doug Eddy presented “Decision Support System for Additive Manufacturing (DS-SAM)” at Raytheon Company in Andover, MA.
  • e-Design Team presents at 2017 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference August 6-9, 2017 August 2017: The UMass Center for e-Design attended the 2017 annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
      • Highlights:
    • Dr. Ian Grosse Tom Hagedorn presented an invited talk entitled, “BFO Conformal Ontologies to Support Engineering Design and Innovation” at the third Industrial Ontology Foundation (IOF) workshop.
    • Dr. Doug Eddy presented a paper entitled, “A Domain Driven Approach to Metamodeling in Additive Manufacturing”
    • Zhou Yang presented a paper entitled, “Investigating Grey-Box Modeling for Predictive Analytics in Smart Manufacturing”
    • Shreyas Patil presented a poster entitled, “Information Modelling Framework for CAD and Additive Manufacturing Process Relationships”
  • December 2017 – dissertation defense of Thomas Hagedorn of “Supporting the Design for Additively Manufactured Medical Devices with Knowledge Management through Ontologies”.

2015

3d printer March 20, 2015
In the summer of 2014, new additive manufacturing equipment was acquired to launch the advanced design and fabrication (ADDFab) research and development effort of the College of Engineering. ADDFab is a part of the new Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM). CPHM conducts research and training to assist the future workforce to acquire the skills needed for the emerging digital healthcare industry. ADDFab supports the mission of CPHM with design testing and integrated precision manufacturing capabilities for the medical device community.

March 20, 2015 - Alumnus Wins 2014 Young Engineer Award 
Dr. Paul Witherell, an alumnus of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department, has received the 2014 Young Engineer Award from the Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The CIE division sponsors the Young Engineer Award to recognize a promising young investigator who is making outstanding contributions to the progress in the application of computers in engineering. Link to article: https://www-edesign.sws.iastate.edu/our-former-student-dr-paul-witherell-received-the-2014-young-engineer-award/#more-763 

Witherell received his Ph.D. (2009), M.S. (2006), and B.S. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from the MIE department. As a graduate student, Witherell was a member of the NSF Center for e-Design team, developing semantic methods and ontologies to support mechanical design.

Witherell is a mechanical engineer in the Life Cycle Engineering Group of the Systems Integration Division at the Engineering Laboratory in NIST. Witherell’s primary research interests are Additive Manufacturing, Design for Sustainability, Knowledge Representation in Product Development, Design Optimization, and Ontology and Semantic Relatedness for Manufacturing.

In 2009, Witherell was awarded the prestigious National Research Council’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from NIST, where he was later hired into his present position. His work focuses on identifying integration and technology solutions to enable the smart and sustainable design and manufacture of products with a focus in additive manufacturing technologies. In this capacity, Witherell is involved with producing and promoting industry acceptance of information models, standards, and open architectures for smart product design and manufacture. He has mentored many undergraduate and graduate students who have visited NIST.

Witherell is a mechanical engineer in the Life Cycle Engineering Group of the Systems Integration Division at the Engineering Laboratory in NIST. Witherell’s primary research interests are Additive Manufacturing, Design for Sustainability, Knowledge Representation in Product Development, Design Optimization, and Ontology and Semantic Relatedness for Manufacturing.

In 2009, Witherell was awarded the prestigious National Research Council’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from NIST, where he was later hired into his present position. His work focuses on identifying integration and technology solutions to enable the smart and sustainable design and manufacture of products with a focus in additive manufacturing technologies. In this capacity, Witherell is involved with producing and promoting industry acceptance of information models, standards, and open architectures for smart product design and manufacture. He has mentored many undergraduate and graduate students who have visited NIST.

Witherell currently serves as the Associate Program Manager of a multi-million dollar NIST program on Additive Manufacturing. Within this program, Dr. Witherell manages a project on Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing, which combines engineering and information sciences to benefit the emerging area of additive manufacturing. The project focuses on the flow of information from design through production of additive parts. Witherell also leads standards work in ASTM E60 to provide guidance to industry for improving the sustainability of manufacturing processes through better impact assessment.

Witherell has been a member of ASME since 2002 and involved with the ASME CIE conferences since 2005. He has served in roles such as reviewer, review coordinator, session chair, workshop organizer, topic organizer, and technical committee chair. Paul has served similar roles in the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Paul serves on the Programme Committee for the International Conference of Product Lifecycle Management and is a reviewer for several journals.

Witherell achieved the rank of Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, serving one-year active duty in 2003, and was Honorably Discharged in 2006.

Since graduating from the MIE department, Witherell has provided scholarship support to College of Engineering students and has also been a mentor to several undergraduate and graduate students associated with the UMass Center for e-Design, including Jeffrey McPherson, Jay Briendel, Doug Eddy, and Ed Roy. In addition, during the summer of 2014, he was the sponsor and technical supervisor to Andrew Dodd, currently a senior with the MIE department, for his summer project at NIST. (October 2014)