PROJECTS

• TRP - Technology Reinvestment Project
  
  The NSF Center on Low-Cost, High-Speed Polymer Composites Processing at Michigan State University was recently awarded with a Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) for a joint program proposed with the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials. The objective of the program is to improve the effectiveness of the educational programs and technology transfer activities of the two participating universities and to integrate the latest developments in low-cost manufacturing into the undergraduate engineering and continuing education programs.

CENTERS AFFILIATED WITH MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

• NSF Center on Low-Cost, High-Speed Polymer Composites Processing at Michigan State University

  This NSF center is a state of the art facility containing more than $9 million in analytical, characterization equipment for polymer composites research and annual research expenditures of $5 million. The NSF Center on Low-Cost, High-Speed Polymer Composites Processing is located within the Composite Materials and Structures Center.
   

• UD-CCM - University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials

  Founded in 1974 within the University of Delaware's College of Engineering, the Center for Composite Materials (CCM) is an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary center of excellence for composites research and education.
   

INSTITUTES & RESEARCH CENTERS

• Center for Advanced Structural Composites
  
  CASC is a state funded research center for the investigation and development of composite materials for use in structural applications. Currently, the major focus of the center involves testing and characterizing the patented IsoTruss.

• CMRG - Composite Materials Research Group at The University of Mississippi
  
  CMRG has grown into a nationally recognized program in the area of Pultrusion research. The Group's commercial pultrusion machine with a computer controlled data acquisition system provides the unique opportunity for the University of Mississippi researchers to be involved in both theoretical and experimental pultrusion process development.

• Composites Research Group at Nottingham University
  
  This introduces the Composites Research Group, will provide access to: Staff details, Synopses of ongoing research, Recent published work, Composites Club, The 5th International Conference on Automated Composites, Certain research results such as RTM processing records, etc.

• Department of Materials Engineering at Drexel University
  
  Research programs in sub-fields of materials engineering and science that reflect areas of specialization in the department are : Materials Synthesis, Materials Processing, Composite Materials, Electronic Materials, Structural Materials, Materials Degradation, Functional Materials, etc.

• IFP - Swedish Institute for Fibre and Polymer Research
  
  IFP- offers research, product development, testing, consultation and training within the fields of fibers and polymeric materials such as textile, plastic, rubber and fiber composites. With a highly competent source of scientific and technical knowledge which is one of a kind in Europe.

• MJC - Michigan Jobs Commission's Research page
  
  Everything you need to know about automotive-related research will be carried here including research such as the U of M OSAT profile on human resource needs in the U.S. auto industry as well as to technical documents. Want to know what is the most popular color for autos - You will find it here.

• MTL - Manufacturing Technology Laboratory
  
  GE Corporate Research & Development's Manufacturing Technology Laboratory (MTL) performs research and development in a wide range of manufacturing and engineering design technologies such as CAD geometry, industrial lasers, NC-machine simulation, high strength composite manufacturing, non-destructive evaluation, and engineering software integration for GE businesses, the U.S. government, and various industrial and university partners.
   

 COMPANIES & PRIVATE INDUSTRIES

• Durability, Inc. Corporate Research Center
  
  Durability has a leading edge expertise in modeling, prediction of stiffness, remaining strength, health monitoring and durability of composites & engineering materials as well as chemical analysis. The Durability Analyzer ©, one of the company's patents, is being developed under an exclusive license from the Virginia Center for Innovation Technology.

• The Mining Company
  
  Extensive composites site with original articles, categorized links, events calendar, bb, chat, job listings, materials database, trade name index, and more. Maintained by an industry professional.

• Pultrusion Dynamics Inc.
  
  As world-wide industry leader in the field of pultrusion research and development, Pultrusion Dynamics, Inc. applies scientific techniques to characterize and optimize the pultrusion process, emphasizing technological developments that yield short term and long term successes.
   

 PUBLICATIONS ORGANIZATIONS

• NetComposites
  
  NetComposites is a unique source of composites knowledge with the facility to order composites books, reports, journals and abstracts on line, register technical queries and gain consultancy services in this highly specialized field.

• SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material & Process Engineering
  
  Society events (symposia/conferences), publications, books/proceedings, membership information, chapter events/officers.
   

  SEARCH UTILITIES
   

• DELTRONIX ENTERPRISES - Worldwide Composites Search Engine
  
  The largest search engine on the internet for the composite materials industry. This is a must see website! Thousands of sites have been indexed in our large database. New additions are added daily.