Manufacturing Machines and Equipment
(MME)
ZJ Pei, Ph.D.
Program Director
Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program
Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
Science and Technology Priorities
for FY 2015 Budget
 Advanced manufacturing
 Clean energy
 Global climate change
 R&D for informed policy-making and management
 Information Technology
 R&D for National-Security Missions
 Innovation in Biology and Neuroscience
 Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) education
 Innovation and commercialization
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Advanced Manufacturing Cluster
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MME - Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (ZJ Pei)
MEP - Materials Engineering and Processing (Larry Bank,
Alexis Lewis, Mary Toney)
NM - NanoManufacturing (Khershed Cooper)
MME Program Synopsis
 MME supports fundamental research that enables the
development of new and/or improved manufacturing machines
and equipment, and optimization of their use.
 Proposals relating to a wide range of manufacturing operations are
encouraged, including both subtractive and additive processes,
forming, bonding/joining, and laser processing.
 Of particular interest are proposals that relate to the manufacture
of equipment and facilities that enable the production of energy
products.
Competitive Proposals Received by MME
 Competitive projects will propose hypothesis-driven research that
advances the frontiers of knowledge in relevant areas.
 Proposals submitted to the MME program should include a clearly
articulated research (not developmental) objective and a coherent
plan to accomplish the stated objective.
 Both experimental and theoretical work are supported.
 All proposals must include a statement outlining the societal
benefits of the proposed activities.
MME Portfolio by Area (# of Awards)
Metrology
10%
AM/3DP
25%
Machining
22%
Assembly
2%
Bio/medical
13%
Machine
4%
Laser
processing
7%
Joining
5%
Casting
Energy
1%
Forming
manufacturing
5%
6%
Recent Additive Manufacturing Awards in MME
1) 3D Near Field e-Writing with Submicron Resolution
2) 3D Printing of Hierarchical Fiber-Reinforced Soft-Composites
3) 3D Printing of Smart Structural Composites by Thermoelectric Extrusion with Molecular Precision
4) 3D-Printed Porous Structure and Polymer Infiltration for Fabrication of Functionally Gradient Material with Complex Shape
5) Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts by Electrochemical Deposition
6) Additive Manufacturing of Near-net Shape and Fully Dense Shape Memory Alloys
7) Bioprinting of Bone Tissue into Defect Sites on Animal Models in Surgery Settings
8) CAREER: 3D Printing of Heart Muscle Using Soft Hydrogels
9) CAREER: An Integrated Research and Educational Program to Understand Nano Additive Manufacturing by Electrochemical Deposition
10) CAREER: Hybrid Approach to Direct-Write Based Micro and Nano Manufacturing
11) CAREER: Hybrid Bioprinting of Engineered Vascularized Endocrine Tissues
12) CAREER: Mask Video Projection Based Additive Manufacturing at the Micro-scale over Large Areas
13) CAREER: Multiobjective Learning Control Strategies for Additive Manufacturing
14) CAREER: Pushing the Boundaries: Advancing the Science of Micro-Additive Manufacturing
15) Collaborative Research: Battery Electrode Fabrication through Innovative Powder based Additive Manufacturing
16) Collaborative Research: Modeling and Characterization of Transition Joints Made by Friction Surfacing Based Additive Manufacturing
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Combinatorial Additive Manufacturing Approach for Fabricating Nano/Micro 3D Structures
Digital Fabrication of High-Temperature Metals Using Selective Inhibition of Sintering
Drop-on-Demand Deposition of Complex Fluids for 3-D Manufacturing
Electric Field Guided Micro Additive Manufacturing Process
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Electrochemical Infiltration of Selective Laser Sintered Preforms
Freeform Fabrication of Multifunctional Nanocomposites via Selective Laser Sintering
GOALI/Collaborative Research: Additive manufacturing for a highly efficient artificial photosynthesis device with multi-layer
interconnected channels and micro-porous structures
GOALI/Collaborative Research: Integrated Microstructure and Melt Pool Dimension Control for Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
GOALI: Collaborative Research: Process Development across Alloy Systems for Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing
GOALI: Collaboration on Novel Materials and Methods for 3D Printing of Microscale Medical Devices
GOALI: Novel Piezoelectric Device Fabrication Using Digital Projection based Additive Manufacturing
GOALI: Online Defect Detection and Mitigation Method for Incipient Anomalies in Additive Manufacturing Processes
High Fidelity Additive Manufacturing at the Micro-scale
Hybrid Direct Manufacturing Production
In Situ Characterization of Effect of Rapid Thermal Cycling During Additive Manufacturing on Deformation-Induced Transformations
and Micro-Mechanical Properties
Integrated Microstructure and Melt Pool Dimension Control for Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
Integrating Inkjet Printing with Nanoporous Structures for High-throughput Manufacturing of 3D Heterogeneous Nanostructures
Investigation of Electrohydrodynamic 3D Printing for Super-Resolution Additive Manufacturing
Iterative Process Control for Laser Metal Deposition
Modeling and Characterization of Transition Joints Made by Friction Surfacing Based Additive Manufacturing (FSAM)
Multi-Material, Multi-Layer Devices Enabled by High Aspect Ratio Micro-Extrusion
Multiscale Structure-Mechanical Property Investigation of Additive Manufactured Components for Development of a Reliable
Qualification Method
Realizing 3-D Printing and Patterning of Metals at Room Temperature
Sensing and Control of Photopolymerization-based Additive Manufacturing Processes
Shock Wave Induced Freeform Technique (SWIFT) for Manufacturing of Diamond Microtools
Thermomechanical and Powder Sintering Aspects in Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing - Applications to Overhang Support
Designs
Number of Additive Manufacturing Proposals
Submitted to MME
# of AM/3DP Proposals
100
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FY13
FY14
FY15
MME Historical Proposal Data
350
Other Proposals
CAREER Proposals
300
Number of Proposals
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Average Size of MME Awards
NSF Workshop on Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing
Research and Education; Arlington, Virginia; 11-12
July 2013
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Co-funded by 14 NSF programs
177 registered participants
13 presentations (http://nsfam.mae.ufl.edu/Schedule.htm)
Workshop report available at
http://nsfam.mae.ufl.edu/2013NSFAMWorkshopReport.pdf
NSF Workshop on Educational Needs and
Opportunities in Additive Manufacturing; Arlington,
Virginia; April 10-11, 2014
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Co-funded by 3 NSF programs
66 participants
17 presentations (http://www.enge.vt.edu/nsfamed/)
Workshop report available at
http://www.enge.vt.edu/nsfamed/NSF_AM_Ed_Workshop_Report.pdf
NSF Workshop on Environmental Implications of
Additive Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; October
14-15, 2014
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Co-funded by 2 NSF programs
96 participants
8 invited speakers (http://nsfamenv.wilsoncenter.org/speakers.html)
Workshop report not available yet
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