In April 2024, ZIP-AM collaborated with UPCAM to co-host the "Women in 3D Printing Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting." The event featured presentations by ZIP-AM female researchers (PI Zhao, Yue Zhang, Yousra Bensouda) on topics including in-situ monitoring of LPBF and DLP processes, as well as photoinhibition-aided VPP (funded by Dr. Zhao's NSF CAREER project). Dr. Soumya Sridar also presented on a CALPHAD-based ICME framework for printable alloys. The meeting was concluded with additive manfuacturing labs tours guided by ZIP-AM students (Haolin Zhang, Heyang Zhang, Yiquan Wang, and Jahangir Alam).
The ZIP-AM team launched an "AIM3DP" (AI & Metrology aided 3DP) workshop at PITT SSOE and hosted the first cohort of high school students and teacher from Pittsburgh SciTech Academy.
Dr. Zhao and her ZIP-AM team (postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chaitanya Vallabh and PhD candidate Yue Zhang) co-organized with UPCAM (University of Pittsburgh Center for Advanced Manufacturing) the "Women in 3D Printing Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting" on Mar-3 2022. Dr. Zhao and Yue presented "In-situ Melt Pool Monitoring of Laser Powder Bed Fusion AM" and “In-situ Ultrasonic Monitoring of Vat Photopolymerization AM”, respectively. Chaitanya guided the lab tour and introduced our unique STWIP (Single-camera Two-Wavength Imaging Pyrometry) system to the attendees.
Dr. Zhao taught an undergraduate class of Mechanical Measurements in Fall 2018 (92 students) and 2019 (81 students)
Sample Project: "Effectiveness of Different Colored Curtains"
The purpose is to determine which color curtain will effectively reduce the heat in a room while minimizing the light reduction.
Dr. Zhao presented "Qualification of Additive Manufacturing" to Women in 3D Printing Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting in Mar 2020
Dr. Zhao and her team (Yubo and Chaitanya) held two half-day workshops themed on 3D Printing to the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania in 2019
