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Launched in 2019-2020, the Additive Manufacturing, Performance & Tribology (AMPT) Center at Rice University (ampt.rice.edu) is an industry-focused, multidisciplinary research center that leverages the deep expertise of Rice engineering faculty to solve the fundamental problems facing Industry 4.0. This designation refers to the companies driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which technologies spanning the physical, digital, and biological worlds are changing how people work and live, and how products are produced and consumed.
The AMPT Center originated in the collaboration of Rice Engineering faculty who understood that the problems they are working on, while historically viewed as distinct sub-disciplines, involve intersecting challenges and powerful opportunities for research synergy.
The core competencies of the AMPT Center — additive manufacturing; materials and structures; tribology and tribomechadynamics; and the application of data, machine learning, and other innovative techniques to drive engineering solutions — underpin the emerging technologies of Industry 4.0. The work of the AMPT Center:
- Broadly impacts the way engineering machines and devices (including biomedical, energy, and electromechanical systems) with surfaces in relative motion are designed, manufactured, monitored, and maintained for extended lifetimes.
- Brings together Rice and industry researchers to use numerous tools to advance the performance of Industry 4.0 technologies, including artificial intelligence, the internet of things (machines, sensors, and the big data they produce), augmented/virtual reality, and multiphysics simulations-based engineering.
- Prepares the Industry 4.0 workforce, by training engineering students from the undergraduate to post-doctoral levels to design application-specific products and systems from the end to the beginning. In working collaboratively with our corporate partners, AMPT students apply deep fundamental engineering concepts to discern and design materials, components, and systems that are custom-tailored to achieve extended lifetimes and optimized mechanical, tribological, and dynamic performance.
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- Media inquiries: Please contact George Webb, AMPT Center Industry Liaison • (713) 348-2704 •. gwebb@rice.edu
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