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Center for Advanced Metals
Processing arrives at Behrend
by Karl Benacci
news co-editor
Dean Lilley, in concurrence
with Dr. Robert Simoneau,
director of the
School of
Engineering and
Engineering
Technology,
recently
announced the
establishment of
the Center for
Advanced
Metals
Processing at
Penn State
Behrend. The
center will add
to the College’s
twelve other applied research
centers in promoting research
efforts among the faculty and in
providing outreach services to the
community.
The Center for Advanced
Metals Processing has been
promoted and encouraged by the
members of a metalworking CEO
group convened by the college in
1999. Dr. L. Ken L.. Saunders,
assistant professor of mechanical
engineering, has led the center’s
development and will serve as its
director.
“The center’s focus is the
development of the metals
processing industries in this
region. This research center is
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also part of a larger effort for
Behrend to have a presence in
manufacturing,” Simoneau
remarked
“This larger effort includes new
“The center’s focus is the development
of the metals processing industries in this
region. This research center is also part
of a larger effort for Behrend to have a
presence in manufacturing. ”
academic programs from the
associate’s degree level to
graduate programs. It is my
intention that this center supports
these academic programs in all of
the ways that research supports
education. For example: access to
new equipment, access to
companies for jobs and
internships, new technology
transferred to the classroom and
bringing in a wide range of
undergraduate research projects
and senior design projects.”
The new center will provide
technology transfer as well as
applied and basic research in
metal processing. The task of the
center is the development of the
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-Dr. Robert Simoneau,
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metals processing industries in the
region.
The Center for Advanced Metals
Processing will initially support the
metal-cutting industries, and it has
the capability for
future support of
the forging,
foundry, and
powered metal
industries. The
center will
provide support
for day-to-day
procedures that
may not be cost
effective for
companies to
maintain
house, such as
Pro E services,
path generation and programming,
tooling testing, rapid prototyping,
and PLC/microcontroller
programming and system design.
The Center’s basic research
activities will address flexible
automation, advanced sensing,
advanced metal control, process
monitoring, and high-speed
machining. Its applied research
activities will include tool life
studies, tool selection, flexible
fixturing, custom machine design,
and controller design.
The Center for Advanced Metals
Processing will be supported
through company memberships,
contract research, and federal and
state funding.
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