{"id":178494,"date":"2023-06-02T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=178494"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T20:39:54","slug":"tyler-ray-nsf-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/02\/tyler-ray-nsf-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF<\/abbr> CAREER<\/abbr> award for professor\u2019s work in 3D<\/abbr> printing research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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To develop new materials using additive manufacturing (also known as 3D<\/abbr> printing), University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa Assistant Professor Tyler Ray<\/a> has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER<\/abbr>) Award<\/a> from the National Science Foundation (NSF<\/abbr>), its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.<\/p>\n

This highly competitive grant, awarded to about 500 faculty each year across all disciplines, supports early career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models and leaders in research and education. Ray is the first professor in 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Engineering<\/a> since 2016 to be awarded an NSF<\/abbr> CAREER<\/abbr> Award.<\/p>\n

The five-year, $518,834 grant, will support his project, “Additive Manufacturing with Acoustically Assembled Multi-Scale Composite Materials<\/a>.” Additive manufacturing has revolutionized a wide range of industries by enabling more complex, cost-effective and efficient production processes. Ray\u2019s research seeks to establish the scientific foundation for using this manufacturing process to create materials with properties that are customized for a given application. These types of materials are critical for addressing the demanding requirements of transformative technologies, including high-capacity energy storage, clean energy and quantum computing.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m honored to be selected for an NSF<\/abbr> CAREER<\/abbr> Award and the opportunity it affords to explore high-risk scientific questions,” Ray said. “I\u2019ve long been interested in understanding how we can use additive manufacturing to create materials with unique properties that are precisely programmed for a given application. With this support, we seek to develop the methods and techniques necessary to enable engineers to control the properties of a material in the same way an artist can carefully craft a beautiful piece of pottery.”<\/p>\n

Educating budding scientists<\/h2>\n

In alignment with the NSF<\/abbr> CAREER<\/abbr> program\u2019s commitment to integrating research with education, this project also includes a robust outreach and education component. The project seeks to directly integrate college and K–12 students in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM<\/abbr>) with research outcomes through initiatives including:<\/p>\n