NASA’s X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge
Channel: UWM Engineering & Applied Science
Date: 2015-03-26

UWM was one of five universities invited to particpate in the 2014-15 NASA sponsored X-HAB Academic Innovation Challenge. Civil Engineering associate professor Rani El Hajjar and Director of the Engineering Mechanics and Composites Research Laboratory helped a group of students develop a methodology to reduce the weight and speed of the 3D printing process by recycling plastics and incorporating carbon-fibers in the design.  The UWM team traveled to Huntsville, Alabama to meet the NASA engineers working in this area.