Celebrating Excellence and Innovation at Smarture Lab

Prof. Haghighi receives the 2024 Susan Smyth Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Since 1980, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award has recognized manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

Prof. Haghighi is invited to serve as a Scientific Committee member for ICAM 2024

The ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ASTM ICAM 2024) is scheduled to take place from October 28 to November 1, 2024, at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, GA, USA.

Reihane joined the lab, Welcome!

Prof. Haghighi is invited to join the Scientific Committee of NAMRC/SME

The North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME (NAMRI | SME) brings together researchers from leading companies, government laboratories, academic institutions and industrial think tanks located around the world for the advancement of…

Prof. Haghighi Gives a talk at the AFRL Regional-Midwest Networking event

The 1-day workshop focused on current and emerging challenges for application-driven Microelectronics enabled by advanced manufacturing.

Prof. Haghighi is invited to give a talk at NIST

Richa joined the lab, Welcome!

Justin joined the lab, Welcome!

Prof. Haghighi has organized a symposium on Smart Additive Manufacturing at 2024 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference

The Smart Additive Manufacturing  symposium will focus on research aimed at leveraging advances in sensing, automation, computation, software, networking, big data analytics, machine learning, control, etc., to reduce trial and error, and enhance…

Smarture Lab attended the 2023 MSEC/NAMRC 51 at Rutgers University

Smarture Lab attended the 2023 MSEC/NAMRC 51 at Rutgers University. Suyog presented our recent work on novel energy-efficient and quality-aware part placement in robotic additive manufacturing.

Prof. Haghighi receives the 2023 College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Award

The award aims to recognize faculty members for their excellence in teaching and valuable contributions to UIC’s College of Engineering mission.

Smarture Lab receives the Chancellor’s Translational Research Initiative Award

The award will support our initiatives on a novel additive manufacturing technology!

PhD Student, Suyog, receives NSF Student Support Award to attend NAMRC 51/MSEC 2023. Congratulations!

Prof. Haghighi is invited to give a talk at the University of Toledo

Prof. Haghighi is invited to give a talk at the TIPE 3D Printing 2023

The conference is a Women in 3D Printing event, co-produced with SME.

Prof. Haghighi is invited to join the Editorial Board of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Journal as an Associate Editor

Smarture Lab participates in the Women in 3D Printing event

Smarture Lab organizes and hosts the first series of "Your AI Journey" Workshop on Smart Manufacturing

The workshop brings together experts from academia, industry, and government to share their knowledge in the field of smart manufacturing and hopes to open up new opportunities for the manufacturing community to better…

Prof. Haghighi is invited to give a talk at the ASTM ICAM 2022

The prestigious ASTM International Conference on Additive Manufacturing, sponsored by the ASTM International Additive Manufactured Center of Excellence (AM CoE), will be held October 31 – November 4, 2022 in Orlando, FL. This…

Prof. Haghighi receives the 2022 College of Engineering Faculty Advising Award

Prof. Haghighi receives the 2022 College of Engineering Faculty Advising Award! The award aims to recognize faculty members for their work, service, and dedication to students and their commitment to UIC’s College of…

Prof. Haghighi promotes SME and manufacturing education and research among K-12 students

Prof. Haghighi promotes SME and manufacturing education and research among K-12 high school students at the SME member meet-up!

Smarture Lab visits the IMTS 2022

Smarture lab visits the IMTS 2022.

Prof. Haghighi has organized two symposiums at 2023 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference

Prof. Haghighi has organized two symposiums on “Smart Additive Manufacturing” and ” Human-Automation Collaboration and Assembly in Advanced Manufacturing” at the 2023 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. For more information please…

Prof. Haghighi has organized a special issue on "Smart and Advanced Manufacturing"

Prof. Haghighi has organized a special issue on “Smart and Advanced Manufacturing” at the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing together with our great colleagues, Prof. Rao at Virginia Tech and Prof. Zhang…

Meysam joined the lab, Welcome!

Smarture Lab attended the 2022 MSEC/NAMRC 50 at Purdue University

Smarture Lab attended the 2022 MSEC/NAMRC 50 and the 3rd Annual Women in Advanced Manufacturing (WIAM) at Purdue University. Suyog presented our recent work on novel architecture-driven physics-informed deep learning for smart additive…

Prof. Haghighi is recognized as a Future of Illinois Faculty Grant Awardee by the IMEC Illinois

The purpose of this grant program is to engage faculty on innovative solutions that will help Illinois manufacturing prepare for the future. The total investment of these grant awards exceeds $650,000. For more…

Prof. Haghighi is invited to give a talk at Texas A&M university

Massimo graduated, Congratulations!

Massimo successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis and will join Syngenta as a Data Scientist. Congratulations!

Prof. Haghighi receives a new federal grant supporting Smarture lab initiatives

Prof. Haghighi receives a new award from the Department of Commerce- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC).

Smarture lab research sheds light on model-based deep architectures for additive manufacturing

For more information, check our recently published paper, “Model-based deep learning for additive manufacturing: New frontiers and applications”,  in the Manufacturing Letters Journal.

Massimo joined the lab, Welcome!

Suyog joined the lab, Welcome!

Prof. Haghighi promotes STEM education at the Oakton community college

Teresa and Brett joined the lab. Welcome!

Jonatan joined the lab, Welcome!

Prof. Haghighi Organizes a Symposium at 2021 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference

Prof. Haghighi has organized and will chair the “Robotic Manufacturing and Assembly in Smart Factories” symposium at the 2021 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference.

The Smarture lab is launched by Prof. Azadeh Haghighi