A workshop is organized in occasion of a new US-EU collaboration among Penn State University and Politecnico di Milano.
Profs. Mary Frecker and Lorraine Dowler at Penn State University are co-principal investigators of the NSF grant "LEAP HI: GOALI: Accelerating Design for Additive Manufacturing of Smart Multimaterial Devices" and Prof. Chiara Bisagni is principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant "NABUCCO - New Adaptive and BUCkling-driven Composite aerospace structures".
The two research groups are studying adaptive shape changing structures in two different contexts, additively manufactured medical devices and composite aerospace structures.
The collaboration includes also a study of diverse leadership in engineering teams.