Student Support for the 2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference; Austin, Texas; 25-27 July 2022

该奖项为参加将于2022年7月25日至27日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的2022年度国际固体自由曲面制造（SFF）研讨会的学生提供参与者支持。研讨会的重点是增材制造和3D打印的新研究和开发活动。学生和教师通过口头和海报会议向增材制造、先进制造和更广泛的工程界展示他们最新的研究成果。优先考虑女性学生或来自代表性不足的少数群体的学生。这种方法在短期内促进了会议的多元化参与，在长期内促进了STEM领域的多元化参与。该奖项通过培养熟练和多样化的制造业劳动力使国家受益，这些劳动力为他们所选择领域的挑战提供变革性解决方案做好了更好的准备。该会议在支持和维持增材制造/3D打印这一重要领域方面发挥着重要作用，这是一项普遍存在并影响所有工业部门并造福社会的技术。这次会议恰逢其时，因为人们对美国国内先进制造业重新产生了兴趣。参加者的支持有助学生的专业及科技发展。参加会议使学生和教师对固体自由形状制造、增材制造和增/减混合工艺、其基础、先进材料和加工、先进表征和应用有了更广泛的了解。研讨会主题包括增材材料基础、增材工艺开发、微观结构分析、过程建模、监测和控制，以及混合增材制造工艺等专业主题。与会者将通过参加几场由国内外知名演讲者主持的技术和专业发展讲座，了解各自技术领域的最新研究成果。学生和青年教师通过口头和海报展示，以及与技术领域的同行深入讨论他们的工作，提高他们的沟通技巧。这种互动体验极大地拓宽了学生的教育，增加了他们对研究课题的热情，使他们熟悉对科学事业的期望，并使他们接触到创新研究的新方法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides participant support for students to attend the 2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference to be held 25-27 July 2022, in Austin, Texas. The symposium focuses on new research and development activities in additive manufacturing and 3D printing. The students and faculty present through oral and poster sessions their latest research results to the additive manufacturing, advanced manufacturing and broader engineering communities. Priority is given to students who are women or who come from underrepresented minority groups. This approach promotes diverse participation at the conference, in the short term, and in STEM fields, in the long term. This award benefits the nation through the education of a skilled and diverse manufacturing workforce, which is better prepared to provide transformative solutions the challenges in their chosen fields. The conference plays an important role in supporting and sustaining the important field of additive manufacturing/3D printing, a technology that is pervasive and impacts across all industrial sectors with benefits to society. This conference is timely because of renewed interest in the U.S in onshoring advanced manufacturing.This participant support is expected to benefit the students' professional, scientific and technical development. Attendance at the conference gives the students and faculty a broader view of solid freeform fabrication, additive manufacturing and additive/subtractive hybrid processes, its fundamentals, advanced materials and processing, advanced characterization and applications. Symposium topics include fundamentals of additive materials, additive process development, microstructural analysis, process modeling, monitoring and control, and specialized topics, such as Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Processes. Attendees will learn about state-of-the-art research in their technical areas via access to several technical and professional development talks by leading domestic and international speakers. Students and young faculty enhance their communication skills through oral and poster presentations and in-depth discussions of their work with peers in their technical areas. This interactive experience significantly broadens student education, increases their enthusiasm for their research topic, acquaints them with expectations for scientific careers, and exposes them to new approaches for innovative research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.