The mission of the Systems for Hybrid-Additive Process Engineering Lab (SHAPE Lab) is to advance:

  1. Additive Manufacturing: Design, Material Development and Biomedical Applications
  2. Hybrid Manufacturing
  3. Sand-Printing for Metal Casting

Newsletter and Current Events: 

 

Kaitlyn Hartman awarded with for winning second place in the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) 2025 student poster competition.

Kaitlyn Hartman was awarded 2nd place in the MSEC student poste competition for her research poster titled “Functionally graded TPMS lattices structures for biomedical applications” 

   

SHAPE Lab Undergraduate researcher, Joseph Daghir, has been honored as a Spring 2025 Student Marshal.

Student marshals are selected for their outstanding academic achievement and contributions to engineering student life.

Joe’s undergraduate honors research includes analyzing the effect of embedded fluorescent particles in elastomeric parts manufactured with digital light processing

 
   
  SHAPE Lab’s Ashish Jacob was awarded the 2025 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award
   
Beyond Welding: Researchers 3D print two metals in single complex structure.  
   
  SHAPE Lab’s multi-material laser powder bed fusion (MM-LPBF) capabilities featured on Additive Manufacturing Media. 
 Computational Design Symposium (NY24) key note presentation by Dr. Guha Manogharan on Design Optimization for Multi-Material Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Dr. Guha Manogharan named co-director of Penn State’s additive manufacturing center

Read More here: Penn State News in Engineering

 

Georgia Tech’s Manufacturing Institute’s Lecture series featuring “Hybrid Additive Manufacturing: Role of AM in advancing traditional manufacturing methods” by Dr. Guha Manogharan.
3D-Printing Grad Student Helps Optimize Emerging Technology by Paula Clares
3D-Printing Surgical Implants Inspires Engineering Graduate Student by Lauren Judkins
3D Printing for Better Flame From a Gas Turbine Swirler: The Cool Parts Show #42 from Peter Zelinski of Additive Manufacturing Media