Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics

Challenge, contribution, and outcome

Facility overview

NYU Abu Dhabi’s shared workshops for custom mechanical parts and printed-circuit fabrication. I co-developed Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics and ran the facility until I handed it over in 2017, personally operating the industrial additive, cutting, inspection, and circuit-board machines used for research prototypes.

Facility Highlights

• Established the Electronics Workshop and co-established the Advanced Manufacturing Workshop, operated them as the Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics platform, and handed the facility over in 2017.
• Personally operated EOS industrial 3D printers — selective laser sintering and SLA, and the EOSINT M 270 metal laser-sintering system — and Stratasys plastic printers. The EOS machines were advanced systems that took particular care to understand and run, including powder handling, inert process gas, and build parameters.
• Operated the cutting and inspection cell: waterjet, wire EDM, and laser cutters, and a North Star Imaging (NSI) computed-tomography scanner for non-destructive inspection of manufactured parts. The machining bay included a Haas VF-2SS vertical mill.
• Ran the electronics fabrication line: circuit-board plotter, through-hole plating system, board press, and reflow oven. In-house work on that line produced research boards, including the hardware-security ASIC validation platform.

Institutional Collaboration & Project Team

• Nikolaos Giakoumidis

  NYU Abu Dhabi · Core Technology Platforms

  Co-development & operation

• Core Technology Platforms

  NYU Abu Dhabi

  Research infrastructure organization

Projects enabled here

• Fabricated here

  Hardware-Security ASIC Validation Platform

  Led schematic design, PCB layout, in-house fabrication, and initial testing of the custom ASIC validation board.

Publications & media

• institutional page

  Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics CTP

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