Chelsea ColleyFour graduate students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering traveled to Berlin, Germany to present their work at the Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing in October, 2022.
(The following has been excerpted and adapted from content originally posted on the UK College of Engineering’s webpage )
Avery Hartley, Dan Caudill, Gisele Guedes and Hamzah Zannoun presented projects they developed in their ME/MFS 599/699 Sustainable Manufacturing Projects course.
During the conference, the students learned about cutting-edge research and the biggest challenges facing the sustainable manufacturing field today.
“The most significant thing I learned at the conference was how other organizations investigate sustainable initiatives,” said Daniel Caudill, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “The United Nations has 17 sustainability goals, and several groups around the world are working to improve upon these problems. These goals often blend into each other in various ways. Seeing how solving one problem can improve multiple goals is fantastic to see.”
Fazleena Badurdeen, professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Graduate Studies for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, hopes that by attending the conference, the students will be inspired to continue working in this area. “Unless more sustainable manufacturing practices are developed, the future of their generation will be at stake,” said Badurdeen.
