We are excited to announce that effective July 1, 2020, ACRC is now part of the University of California, Irvine. It’s new home at UCI is the Institute for Design and Manufacturing Innovation in the Samueli School of Engineering, which will include research into additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence for manufacturing, big data and other industry 4.0 topics, all critical for advanced cast metal products. ACRC’s board of directors voted unanimously to relocate, following its director, Diran Apelian’s appointment as Distinguished Professor at UCI. The collaborative, under Apelian’s direction, will continue its work bringing fundamental understanding to existing processes, develop new methods, and address management-technology interface issues with industrial partners. Learn more