Advanced manufacturing and supply chain management
Advanced manufacturing research at UMass Amherst covers a wide range of processes and systems. It is highly collaborative with government and industry, and involves fields such as robotics, AI, materials science, biopharmaceuticals, and data science, amongst others.
Areas of faculty expertise include additive manufacturing, nanomanufacturing, and automation and supply chain prediction. Innovations arising out of UMass Amherst research include flexible and wearable sensors, rehabilitation robotics, anti-biofouling coatings to prevent bacteria from growing on medical instruments, predictive analytics to model product lifecycles, and 3D-printed structures for batteries and other energy storage devices, among many others.
Featured core facilities include:
- Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADDFab)
- Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing Facility
- Device Fabrication (Cleanroom)
Showcase faculty labs:
Featured organizations
Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
The Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing is a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center within the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Center for e-Design
The Center for e-Design is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center engaging high technology companies and universities.
Related faculty
Sundar Krishnamurty
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ronnie & Eugene M. Isenberg Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Engineering
Design innovation; predictive analytics, advanced design and manufacturing.
Meghan Huber
Focused on understanding how humans and robots can learn from the physical interactions of one another.
Xian Du
Research focuses on the scale up of flexible electronics printing processes from lab to industry using high-precision in-line inspection.
Ana Muriel
Associate Department Head, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Director of Engineering Management
Logistics and supply chain management, advanced design and manufacturing, systems engineering.
Wen Chen
Additive manufacturing; mechanical behavior of materials; materials design.
Yanfei Xu
Interdisciplinary research focuses on fundamental relationships between material structures and properties at an atomic level.
