Please note: the program is preliminary and subject to change.
Monday, July 6, 2026
Opening Reception
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Moo & Brew, 1300 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Welcome Message
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM
John Daniels, Vice Chancellor of Research, UNC Charlotte
Session 1
Precision Applications of AM & Design for AM
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Session Chairs: John Taylor (UNC Charlotte) & Stuart Smith (UNC Charlotte)
- Keynote: Additive Manufacturing in Energy – Progress & Where Precision Matters Most
Alex Bridges, John Shingledecker (Electric Power Research Institute) - Additive Manufacturing and Static Performance of Porous Metal Aerostatic Bearings
Onni Leutonen, Mikael Miettinen, Roy Björkstrand, Mika Salmi, Raine Viitala (Aalto University) - On-Chip Fiber Coupling with Micro-Optical Systems Manufactured by Two-Photon-Lithography
Caroline Kinzel, Eugenia Bosler, Kartik Gaur, Stefan Kühne, Stephan Reitzenstein, Dirk Oberschmidt (Technische Universität Berlin) - A Mathematical Approach for Optimized Additive Manufacturing of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces by Powder Bed Fusion
Eckart Uhlmann, Julian Polte, Janek M. Fasselt, Robin I. Hennig (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK; Technische Universität Berlin)
Session 2
AM Machine Performance & Process Monitoring
11:30 AM – 12:40 PM & 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Session Chairs: Jaime Berez (UNC Charlotte) & Jesse Redford (NIST)
- Keynote: LPBF Subsystem Qualification: Decoding the Relationship Between Hardware and the Melt Pool
Hunter Taylor, Tailored Alloys - Automated, Dense Spatial Characterization of Focal Plane Error in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Samuel Parsons, Jaime Berez (UNC Charlotte); Corbin Grohol (Oerlikon AM US Inc.) - Building Confidence in LPBF In-Situ Thermography
Hugh C. Hallas, Paul Hooper (Imperial College London) - Stop Motion Imaging: Novel Method for Filming Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Samuel Searle, Michele Vanini, Bey Vrancken (KU Leuven; Flanders Make) - In-Situ Quality Monitoring of Metallic Powders in PBF-LB/M Using Spectral Emissivity Measurement
J. Polte, G. Esser, J. Fasselt, Christian Lahoda, Y. Erikli (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK; Technische Universität Berlin); R. Anderson, A. Kirmes (INGLAS GmbH) - Symbolic Regression for Infrared Camera and Pyrometer Calibration in Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing
William M. Werner, Thomas Mann, Bradley H. Jared (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); Yousub Lee, Yukinori Yamamoto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) - Process Informed Metrology for Quantifying Material Consolidation in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Jesse Redford, David Deisenroth, Jordan Weaver (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Session 3
XCT Metrology for AM
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Session Chairs: Shan Lou (University of Huddersfield) & Ahmed Tawfiq (University of Huddersfield)
- Keynote: Advancing Metal Additive Manufacturing Through X-Ray Computed Tomography Metrology
Nicolò Bonato, University of Padova - Multiscale X-Ray Tomography and Deep Learning for Defect Quantification in Additive Manufacturing
Herminso Villarraga-Gómez (Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, LLC) - On the Automation of X-Ray Computed Tomography Metrology of Additively Manufactured Components
Ronnie Ssebaggala, Paul J. Scott, Xiangqian Jane Jiang, Wenhan Zeng, Shan Lou (University of Huddersfield); Joseph Lifton John (University of Southampton); Andrew Alexander Malcolm (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing & Technology)
Session 4
Precision AM for Advanced Materials
10:35 AM – 12:25 PM
Session Chairs: Bradley Jared (University of Tennessee) & Lynnora Grant-Kahan (UNC Charlotte)
- Multiphysics Modeling of Directed Energy Deposition of Functional Gradient Material Thin Wall: Linking Process Parameters to Composition Gradients
Kishore Mysore Nagaraja, Allyce Jackman, David Souders (Flow Science Inc.) - Processing–Structure–Property Relationships in WAAM-Fabricated Bimetallic Gears
Jay Airao, Jinghao Li, Ramin Aghababaei (Aarhus University) - Multi-Scale Anatomy of DED SS316L-IN625 Functional Gradients
Clayton Perbix, Joy Gockel (Colorado School of Mines) - Additive Manufacturing of Graphene-Reinforced Inconel 718 Composites Using LPBF
Md Shovon Zahid, Ola L. A. Harrysson (North Carolina State University) - Secondary Processing by Cylindrical Die Thread Rolling to Improve Mechanical Performance and Surface Properties of AM Threaded Parts
Noel P. Greis (UNC Charlotte); David C. Willens (Kinefac Corporation)
Workshop: AI in Precision Additive Manufacturing
1:35 PM – 2:25 PM
Shengyen Li (NIST)
Tour: UNC Charlotte Laboratories & Center for Precision Metrology
2:55 PM – 5:25 PM (transportation provided)
Duke Hall, 9330 Robert D. Snyder Rd, Charlotte, NC 28223
Networking Dinner & Reception, sponsored by US Conec
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Midwood Smokehouse, 1401 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Session 5
Metrology of AM Surfaces and Parts
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM & 11:15 AM – 11:55 AM
Session Chairs: Chris Evans (NIST) & Jason Fox (NIST)
- Keynote: Enabling Modelers to Test Their Simulations Against Rigorous, Highly Controlled Additive Manufacturing Benchmark (AM Bench) Measurement Data
Jordan Weaver, David Desienroth, Jesse Redford, Sergey Mekhontsev, Sandra Young, Brandon Lane, Lyle Levine (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - Quantitative Assessment of Dimensional Bias of Micrometer Two-Photon Polymerized Structures
Sumit Kumar, Edward Morse, Stuart T. Smith (UNC Charlotte) - Qualifying ML Measurement Systems for Direct-Ink-Write Lattice Metrology: An MSA Framework with Worst-Strand Decisions
Brian Weston, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Overcoming Pixelation Limits in Dynamic Image Analysis of Powder Feedstocks via Continuous Fourier Boundary Reconstruction
Langdon Feltner, UNC Charlotte - Deployable Surface Scanning for Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing
Bradley Jared, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Key Factors Influencing the Performance of In-Situ Fringe Projection Profilometry in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Xiangjun Kong, Tibebe Yalew, Gerardo Adesso, Samanta Piano (University of Nottingham); Andrew Payne, Patrick Kiley, Martin Sparkes, Bill O’Neill (University of Cambridge)
Special Session on Imprecision in Additive Manufacturing
1:15 PM – 2:20 PM
Closing Session
2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
Closing Reception
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birdsong Brewing, 1016 N Davidson St, Charlotte, NC 28206
Friday, July 10, 2026
Tour: NASCAR R&D Center
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM (transportation provided)
7010 W Winds Blvd NW, Concord, NC 28027
Poster Session
- Simulating Oxygen Diffusion in Vat Photopolymerization
Timothy Yap, Xiaofeng Chen, Zachariah A. Page, Michael Cullinan (The University of Texas at Austin) - An Improved Optimization Workflow for FDM 3D Printing: From Design of Experiments to Iterative Methods
Yixue Wang, Annika Brehmer, Julian Polte (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK; Technische Universität Berlin) - Iterative Design and Durability Optimization of an Additively Manufactured Educational Demonstrator for Repeated Use
Jonathan Liu (OpenApparatus / Lexington High School) - Robocast Silicon Carbide: The Influence of Material Composition and Sintering Conditions on Overall Part Integrity
Taylor Barrett, Brigid Mullany (UNC Charlotte); Beth L. Armstrong, Corson L. Cramer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) - Evaluation of Coherent Scanning Interferometer as a Defect Detection Technique for Ceramic Additive Manufacturing
Protanu Banerjee, Brigid Mullany, Lynnora Grant-Kahan (UNC Charlotte); Russell Maier (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - Elastic Averaging for Repeatable Positioning of 3D Printed Parts
Sam Ludwig, Katherine S. Riley, Hilary A. Johnson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)