Welcome to the Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratory (LMMRL) at The Ohio State University
Group News
- Professor Luo elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- UCI’s Advanced Casting Research Center Announces Affiliation with Ohio State
- Alan Luo selected to receive 2023 TMS Research to Industrial Practice Award
- Alan Luo selected to be TMS Fellow, Class of 2023
- LMMRL members attend September 2022 NADCA Die Casting Congress & Tabletop in Lexington Kentucky. Dr. Jianyue Zhang (Right) presented work on understanding the different formation mechanisms leading to externally solidified crystals in HPDC: “An Investigation of Externally Solidified Crystal Formation in Aluminum High Pressure Die Casting.” Michael Moodispaw (Middle) presented on alloy development work of secondary Al-Si-Mg-Fe with Ce additions and secondary Al-Ce-Fe system: “Using Cerium to Neutralize Iron in Recycled Aluminum Alloys.” Dr. Alan Luo (Middle Right) was chair of the ‘Aluminum Alloys for Future Die Casting’ session, and Dr. Siva Balasubramani (Middle Left) and Gabriel Garcia (Left) were in attendance.
- Scholarships and certification received from Foundry Educational Foundation
- Our research on superwood material and structures is featured on Science cover
- Thomas Avey wins best student oral presentation award at Mg 2021 conference
- Professor Alan Luo receives 2021 Bruce Chalmers Award
- Professors Bakshi, Castro and Luo earn industrial sustainability research grants
- Professor Luo receives Distinguished Scientist Award for research on magnesium technology
- Project sponsor REMADE Institute spotlight on Michael Moodispaw
- Michael Moodispaw wins NADCA’s Steven J. Harmon Scholarship
- Rebecca Vilcheck wins national Foundry Educational Foundation scholarship
- Ohio State researchers win 2020 Best Congress Paper Award at Die Casting Congress
- Professor Luo wins Ralph L. Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation
- Congratulations to Thomas Avey who presented on “Resorbable Magnesium Alloys” at Biofabrication 2019 (Columbus, OH) on October 21. Thomas is a PhD candidate who is advised by Dr. Alan Luo in the OSU Materials Science and Engineering Department. The Luo lab is collaborating with the Osteo Engineering laboratory on the use of resorbable metals for use in medical devices.
- Michael Moodispaw wins Mars G. Fontana Award
- The Department of Material Science and Engineering awarded the Mars G. Fontana award to Michael Moodispaw on March 3rd, 2020. The Mars G. Fontana award is presented annually to the outstanding senior scholar conducting research in metallurgy. The MSE department cited Michael’s participation within Impulse Manufacturing Lab (IML) and the Light Metals and Manufacturing Research Lab during his undergraduate career. Michael worked as a research assistant for IML participating in several impact welding research projects for one year before seeking out a dual degree program the LMMRL group. Participating the BS/MS program with the intention to obtain a PhD, Michael has participated in several projects with the LMMRL group during his first year of the program including alloy development and computer modeling. The MSE department highlighted Michael’s achievement of winning a poster contest at the World Congress for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) in the summer of 2019. “Winning the Mars G. Fontana award has great meaning to me. I have always been eager to get involved with research and have found metallurgical research to be a great place to pursue my personal interests in research, and apply my educational background to ongoing research conducted within the department. The MSE department has provided me many opportunities to expand my knowledge and get involved in the research at the university, and I appreciate their recognition of my interest and pursuit of scientific research.” – Michael Moodispaw
- Professor Alan Luo wins TMS LMD Division Award
- High-strength/high-ductility magnesium sheet alloy for room-temperature forming
- Simulation code developed for porosity formation in solidification products
- Prof. Luo’s Research Group Awarded $1 Million, Two Projects from the REMADE Institute
- Michael Moodispaw won the first place in the student poster competition at the 5th World Congress on ICME, Indianapolis, IN (July. 2019)
- Innovate IP of Al-Cr-Ti-V Based High Entropy Alloys
- Prof. Luo part of winning team at International Magnesium Association
- Emre Cinkilic joined Alcoa’s Research and Development/Technology group at Alcoa Technical Center, New Kensington, PA as an ICME Alloy Development Intern (Mar. 2017)
- Xuejun Huang won the Y. Austin Chang-Pandat Scholarships for CALPHAD XLVI Conference in Saint-Malo, France, 2017 (Jan. 2017)
- Prof. Luo honored for material design scholarship
- Prof. Luo inducted into the 2013 Class of ASM Fellows
