Posts by Lisa McDonald
“The Magic of Ceramics,” plus new books on glass ceramics, composites and Ceramic Transactions volumes ready for shipping
If you describe yourself as a ceramic engineer or ceramic scientist, you are willing to be different, and you probably…
Read MoreUS-based ceramics manufacturing organization AACCM celebrates 20th anniversary
The Association of American Ceramic Component Manufacturers was established 20 years ago to create unity among ceramic manufacturing companies located…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Anchor Glass Containers, part of Ardagh Group, is to receive 6.6 megawatts in low-cost electricity, which will allow the…
Read MoreScenes (pt. 3) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12
Here is my last batch of photos from Pittsburgh last week. We will be uploading more pictures on the ACerS…
Read More$20M in public-private advanced manufacturing grants announced
Readers may recall that the Obama administration’s Material Genome Initiative is actually just a piece of the broader Advanced Manufacturing…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial…
Read MoreMeaningful hand-waving: Purdue group demos design tool that tracks hand motions to create shapes
Purdue doctoral student, Vinayak, demonstrates Handy-Potter to create a three-dimensional object. He is represented by a stick figure in the…
Read MorePopular Mechanics awards breakthrough innovators and products
Cubify, a manufacturer of “affordable” desktop 3D printers, was named one of Popular Mechanics magazine’s Breakthrough Product Awards for 2012.…
Read MoreMoskowitz speaks on Ceradyne–3M deal, his future with 3M and his Distinguished Life Member award
Joel Moskowitz, founder and CEO of the Ceradyne Inc., is well respected as a successful entrepreneur and someone with great…
Read MoreNSF to fund $12M for first ‘designing materials’ DMREF awards in support of MGI
In support of the federal Materials Genome Initiative, the NSF has just announced the first projects to receive funding awards…
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