Cormier and Vrancken receive FAME Additive Manufacturing awards
This year’s recipients of the FAME (Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence) and Jr FAME Awards were announced at the recent Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium held in Austin, Texas, USA. The FAME Award was presented to Professor Denis Cormier, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and AMPrint Center director at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York, USA. The Jr FAME Award was presented to Professor Bey Vrancken, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
The senior award recognises one researcher each year for outstanding contributions to the field of Additive Manufacturing over their career. Whereas the young researcher award is presented annually to an outstanding young researcher early in their career.
During his career, Prof Cormier is reported to have made impressive contributions to the design and manufacturing of engineered lattice structures, process and material development for Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-EB). He is now reported to be playing a pioneering role in the development of the molten metal droplet jetting process.
Prof Vrancken has previously worked on heat treatments, alloy design, and residual stresses in Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB), and is now focusing on process monitoring, multi-laser, and multi-material PBF-LB Additive Manufacturing.
