Support
  • National Science Foundation "High-Speed Droplet-Based Manufacturing of High-Precision Structural Components and Photonic BandGap Materials."  Grant # DMI-0070053         5/01/00 - 4/31/03
  • National Science Foundation "High Precision Droplet-Based Solid Freeform Fabrication: A Novel Manufacturing Technique" Grant #DMI-9622400  2/97 - 12/00
  • Boeing Corporation  "Solid Freeform Fabrication of Aluminum Components Using Molten Metal Droplets, Contract # BCA-23483        3/97 - 3/00
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:  Experimental and Numerical Studies of Net-Form Manufacturing with Molten Aluminum Droplets  3/97 - 7/00
  • National Science Foundation ,Young Investigator Award "Advanced Materials Synthesis and Manufacturing Techniques  Using Controlled Droplet Deposition" Grant # DMI-9457205         10/94 - 9/99
  • General Motors, Research Equipment Grant    10/94 - 9/96
  • National Science Foundation  (co-P.I. Enrique Lavernia

  • Research Equipment Grant:  "Acquisition of a High Speed CCD Array Camera for Droplet Deposition Studies" Grant # DMR 9503727  10/95 - 10/97
     
  • National Science Foundation "R.E.G.  High Speed x-y Positioning System for Nanophase Materials Synthesis," Grant #DDM-9311075  7/93 - 9/95
  • National Science Foundation "A Novel Technique of Net-Form Materials Synthesis,"                       

  • Grant #DDM-9204201   9/92 - 8/95
     
  • National Science Foundation "R.E.G. Time Dependent Droplet  Formulation Studies with Application to Net-Form Manufacturing,"  Grant #CTS-8921922-01 8/91 - 7/92
  • National Science Foundation "A Study of Liquid Streams in Vacuum and Higher Pressure Environments,"  Grant # CTS-8921922  9/90 - 8/91
  • U.S.C. Faculty  Research  and  Innovation Fund  "A Critical Initial Step in the Study of a Novel Approach to Materials Synthesis," Grant #22-1514-9365 7/90 - 6/91
Prof. Melissa Orme
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3976
email: melissao@uci.edu