{"id":952,"date":"2015-06-26T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mstlab\/wordpress\/?page_id=952"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:59:45","slug":"news-and-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mstlab\/news-and-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Ramulu honored with North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME (NAMRI) Founder’s Lecture at SME conference 2025<\/h3>\n

Professor Ramulu Mamidala was honored with the Founder’s Lecture in SME NAMRC 2025. He delivered his lecture on advances in machining Science of aerospace materials, where he highlighted innovations in machining composite and hybrid materials to reduce weight, emissions, and costs in industry applications. He discussed the impacts of machining science on modern engineering, and also highlighted the technical challenges of working with advanced materials, and strategies to overcome these challenges by improving tool performance, precision, and surface quality.<\/p>\n

SME Founders Lecture is an annual event that honors individuals who have significantly contributed to manufacturing research and development.<\/p>\n

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Prof Ramulu receiving the SME Founder Lecture award 2025 (Picture Courtesy: SME and UW ME website)<\/p>\n

Graduation Ceremony 2025<\/h3>\n

MSTL lab celebrated the graduation of four graduates in 2025. MSTL Doctoral Researchers, Eric Bol, Sayem Bin Abdullah, and Melody Mojib completed their PhDs. Vidit Tambi completed his MS. Prof Ramulu hooded them in the 2025 ME graduation ceremony. Sayem Bin Abdullah was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award ’25 at the graduation ceremony for his excellent performance in teaching and mentoring capstone design projects.<\/p>\n

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\nPictures from left: Eric Bol, Sayem Bin Abdullah, Melody Mojib, Vidit Tambi<\/p>\n

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Sayem receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from ME Chair Prof Aliseda in the 2025 ME graduation ceremony<\/p>\n

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Pictures from the graduation celebration in spring 2025 (left) and winter 2025 (right)<\/p>\n

MSTL Team Win Alexander Zhilyaev Award for the Best Poster presentation at International
\nConference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials (ICSAM 2023)<\/h3>\n

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Mr. Eric Bol Graduate Student presented two research works at the 14th International Conference on Superplas9city in Advanced Materials (ICSAM 2023) held on July 10-12th, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n

Oral Presentation: \u201cInvestigation of the complexities inherent in manufacturing near-unconstrained superplastic
\nparts by experiments and simulation\u201d Bryan Ferguson, Eric Bol, D.G. Sanders, and M. Ramulu.<\/p>\n

Poster Presentation: \u201cImproved stochastic dissimilar diffusion bonding model with experimental validation\u201d, Bryan Ferguson, Neha Kulkarni, D.G. Sanders, Eric Bol, M. Ramulu.<\/p>\n

2023 Graduation Celebration<\/h2>\n

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\nPhD graduates Garrett Kelley and Jeremy Ryatt with Prof Ramulu<\/p>\n

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PhD graduate Reid Schur and MS graduate Alex Hicker with Prof Ramulu and Prof Arola<\/p>\n

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\nMS graduates Onkar Patil with Prof Ramulu<\/p>\n

Garrett Kelley Won Best Paper Award in Advanced Manufacturing Track at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) 2022<\/h3>\n

Ph.D. student Garrett Kelley\u2019s recent research with Boeing-Pennell Endowed Professor Ramulu Mamidala measured the impact of electron beam melting setup on the variability of layer thickness. Their paper about the research, \u201cBuild chamber and start plate variability during electron beam melting machine setup,\u201d received the Advanced Manufacturing Track Best Paper Award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in fall 2022. Find details at ME @ UW News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2021 Graduation Celebration<\/h2>\n

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2021 Graduation Celebration Dinner: Myself (MR), Vinati and current students (including families) with PhD graduates, Dr. Sai Krovvidi (6th from left), and Dr. Abdullah Alajmi (2nd from right)<\/p>\n

2019 Graduation ceremony<\/h2>\n

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2019 Graduation ceremony. PhD graduates (from\u00a0 left to right) – Rishi Pahuja, Stefan Hovik, myself (MR), Harinder Oberoi, Nishita Anandan and Bryan Ferguson<\/p>\n

2018 MSTL Family\u00a0Thanksgiving\u00a0 dinner<\/h2>\n

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Thanksgiving dinner and alumni meet at Salty’s (Alki Beach)<\/p>\n

2017<\/h2>\n

2nd<\/sup> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE\u00a0<\/strong>ON\u00a0<\/strong>INNOVATIONS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING (IC-ISE-2017) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 29 \u2013 31 December 2017,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Civil Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Invited Lecture-”<\/p>\n

A<\/b><\/span>DVANCEMENTS IN <\/b>P<\/b><\/span>ROCESS <\/b>D<\/b><\/span>EVELOPMENT AND <\/b>M<\/b><\/span>ECHANICAL <\/b>P<\/b><\/span>ROPERTIES OF <\/b>R<\/b><\/span>ECYCLED <\/b>G<\/b><\/span>LASS <\/b>B<\/b><\/span>UILDING <\/b>M<\/b><\/span>ATERIALS <\/b>T<\/b><\/span>HROUGH <\/b>E<\/b><\/span>XPERIMENTATION AND <\/b>A<\/b><\/span>NALYTICAL <\/b>M<\/b><\/span>ODELING, by Renuka Prabhakar and M. Ramulu, December 29, 2017<\/b><\/p>\n

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International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures ICCMS 2017<\/h3>\n

27-29<\/b>th <\/b><\/span>December 2017, Hyderabad, INDIA <\/b><\/p>\n

Organized by <\/i><\/b>Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad,\u00a0<\/b>Telangana, INDIA <\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Plenary lecture Delivered by Professor Ramulu, on “Machined Surface Integrity Effects on the Strength Properties, DamageEvolution and Fatigue Strength of Composite Laminates” by Harinder Oberoi and M. Ramulu,\u00a0 ICCMS held at HTCC, Novatel Hotel, on December 27th, 2017<\/h4>\n

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OSMANIA UNIVERSITY CENTENIAL, ENGINEERS GLOBAL ALUMNI MEET<\/h3>\n

December 24th, 2017, University College of Engineering, OU<\/h3>\n

Professor Ramulu was recently felicitated as Eminent Alumnus by Osmania University, Hyderabad at Osmania Engineers Centenary Global Alumni Meet.<\/p>\n

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In media:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Hyderabad\/eminent-ou-engineering-alumni-felicitated\/article22273905.ece<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two papers were presented at ASME Tampa Conference:<\/p>\n