Penn State awards 10 manufacturing grants through DCED initiative

Penn State recently awarded 10 grants through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Manufacturing PA initiative.

The projects are part of the initiative’s fellowship program partnering graduate and undergraduate students with local manufacturers for research projects that develop technologies and advance innovation.

Grants were awarded to the following projects: Taking Thermoforming to the Next Industrial Age; Concurrent Inclined Plate Settler Use in Industrial Stormwater Treatment; Enabling AFM Process Analysis for Advanced Technology Development; Impact of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spatial Orientation and Matrix Phase Behavior on Drug Release from Extruded and Injection Molded Long-Acting Implants; Advanced Manufacturing of Ceramics for PA Industries; Evaluation of Recycled Foamed Glass Aggregates in Lightweight Precast Concrete;
Cold Sintering Aided Manufacture of High Green Strength and Dense Powdered Metal Components; Human Error Reduction in Mack Truck Operations; Multiple Core Assembly Production Improvement and Enhancement; and Image-guided Quality Control for Low-volume and High-mix Manufacturing.

“Manufacturing PA allows for collaboration between incredible minds and incredible manufacturing companies,” DCED Secretary Dennis Davin said. “These partnerships engage Pennsylvania’s educational facilities and the business sector across the commonwealth to position our state for continued manufacturing innovation and success.”

Statewide, 43 grants were awarded totaling $2.8 million.