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The UTRGV Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (IAM), contributes to building a world-class American manufacturing base. The Institute offers strategically restructured research, education, and workforce development programs through which we prepare world-class engineers and workers equipped with the skills needed to operate, design, develop, and manage advanced manufacturing processes and systems.

The mission of UTRGV IAM is to integrate engineering disciplines that collectively support excellence in advanced manufacturing in the South Texas region, the U.S., and beyond. Through multiple externally funded projects, we build strong research, education, and outreach programs in defense materials and manufacturing, energy manufacturing, and systems, leveraging our strengths in additive, convergent, and transformative manufacturing processes.

Through its efforts in the South Texas region, IAM gives students the chance to work with industry-standard equipment and provides the internships, training, and connections that launch their careers.
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Ribbon cutting of advanced manufacturing research facility held at UTRGV
Ribbon cutting of advanced manufacturing research facility held at UTRGV

EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Leaders and the community celebrated the grand opening of a newly renovated advanced manufacturing research facility at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

The $3 million state-of-the-art facility will be a hub for applied research and innovation done by students, faculty and researchers...

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Li: Join America’s Additive Foundry Consortium’s journey towards tech-driven entrepreneurial success
Li: Join America’s Additive Foundry Consortium’s journey towards tech-driven entrepreneurial success
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Dr. James Li is president and endowed professor of manufacturing engineering at UT-Rio Grande Valley and director at I-DREAM4D and America’s Additive Foundry Consortium.

Li hosted recently spearheaded a presentation about America’s Additive Foundry at the eBridge Center for Business & Commercialization in downtown...
Learn more about Li: Join America’s Additive Foundry Consortium’s journey towards tech-driven entrepreneurial success
Malki: How the RGV can forge strong manufacturing and tech ties with Sweden
Malki: How the RGV can forge strong manufacturing and tech ties with Sweden
UT-Rio Grande Valley professor gives a presentation to manufacturing industry professionals at the eBridge Center in downtown Brownsville.
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[Student Success] First-generation graduate Brittany Rodriguez advances manufacturing science at ORNL
[Student Success] First-generation graduate Brittany Rodriguez advances manufacturing science at ORNL
Raised in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley by hardworking parents who were not given the opportunity to obtain any type of higher degree, Brittany Rodriguez never imagined she would pursue a science career at a Department of Energy national laboratory. However, after some encouraging words from her mother, input from key mentors at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, or UTRGV, and a lot of hard work, Rodriguez landed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Learn more about [Student Success] First-generation graduate Brittany Rodriguez advances manufacturing science at ORNL

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