Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2020-2025)
Extensive use of sensors, computers and software tools in product design and manufacturing requires traditional manufacturing education to evolve for the new generation of cyber-manufacturing systems. While universities will continue to provide education to build a fundamental knowledge base for their students, the widening gap between the education delivered and the skills required by industry needs innovative solutions to prepare the workforce for future generations of manufacturing. The New York City Future Manufacturing Collective (NYC-FMC) will develop a network of multidisciplinary researchers, educators, and stakeholders in New York City to explore future cyber manufacturing research through the lens of the worker’s relationship to an increasingly complex and technologically driven environment and set of processes. The NYC-FMC will advance related technologies as well as the underlying systems, processes, and organizational conditions to which these interfaces are connected, to change and drive the roles of people in manufacturing. NYC-FMC will organize a variety of activities, including an internship program for students to obtain exposure to industrial environments by engaging major manufacturing based corporations, producing a newsletter to define the state-of-the-art in manufacturing technologies and the new manufacturing ecosystem, and organizing two manufacturing-focused symposia each year. The program will build a coalition of multidisciplinary faculty from NYC universities, industry executives and technologists, investors, entrepreneurs, public sector and other relevant manufacturing ecosystem participants.
The NYC-FMC will take a convergence approach to generate novel ideas, frameworks, and hypotheses to catalyze future research, partnerships, and industrial innovation in manufacturing and cyber-physical systems. A multi-university coalition will rely on faculty leadership at NYU and Columbia University, as well as a broad network of researchers from other NYC institutions, in the areas of manufacturing, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, human behavior and cognition, economics and other relevant areas. This coalition will build a novel education and workforce training program framework to create a learning and feedback loop between researchers, industry partners, and the workforce focused on the future cyber-manufacturing systems.
Participants:
Dr. Nikhil Gupta, New York University
Dr. Kurt Becker, New York University
Dr. Steven Feiner, Columbia University
Dr. Shuran Song, Stanford University
Project Activities:
Reliable and Resilient Digital Manufacturing (R2DM4) Workshop
The workshop focuses on contributions from academia, industry and governmental entities with interdisciplinary backgrounds to facilitate the growth of the new area of digital manufacturing.
Topics:
- Security and privacy in digital manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing as a Cyber-physical system
- Artificial intelligence for manufacturing
- Signal processing and robotics for manufacturing
- Network security for digital manufacturing
- Resilient manufacturing systems and cybersecurity
- Intrusion and anomaly detection
- Standards for digital manufacturing
- Control-theoretic approaches in manufacturing
- Encryption and authentication for manufacturing
- Innovations in computer-aided design
- Workforce development and training
The NYU Prototyping Fund is a collaborative program offered by the Design Lab @ NYU Tandon MakerSpace, the Technology Management and Innovation Department, and New York City Future Manufacturing Collective (NYC-FMC) that awards teams of students up to 500 dollars in the first round of funding and up to 2,000 dollars in the second to be used to build prototypes, and connects them with the resources, tools, and mentors they need to bring their ideas to life.
Hack3D Manufacturing Security Hackathon (9th iteration in 2024)
Testing cybersecurity defenses in additive manufacturing and computer aided design
The Hack3D competition serves to raise awareness and generate discussion in engineering and research communities about security in the additive manufacturing field.
Competitors will have the opportunity to learn and use skills in graphics programming, file manipulation, and reverse engineering while gaining an understanding of the additive manufacturing supply-chain. Students who are interested in learning more about CAD, reverse-engineering, security, and additive manufacturing are encouraged to participate.
Research Experience for Teachers (2023)
Science and Mechatronics Aided Research for Teachers with an Entrepreneurship expeRience (SMARTeR) at New York University Tandon School of Engineering is a professional development opportunity for NYC Middle School and High School teachers. Funded by the National Science Foundation, under its Research Experience for Teachers Site program, SMARTeR helps teachers provide their students enhanced STEM educational content through mechatronics research and entrepreneurship training.
After two weeks of introduction to research teachers are paired in engineering labs where they will participate in cutting edge research opportunities. Teachers will then be supported as they take their research experience and transform it into lesson plans for their students.
Outcomes:
A series of virtual panel discussions is organized in Spring-Summer 2021. The theme of the events is Digital Manufacturing Cybersecurity. All the recordings are available on YouTube.
Panel 1: Role of professional societies in Digital Manufacturing security. April 1, 2021. Watch recording.
Panel 2: Securing Machines and Processes in Digital Manufacturing. May 6, 2021. Watch recording.
Panel 3: Diversity & Inclusion in Research and Workforce. June 3, 2021. Watch recording.
Panel 4: Securing IP and Supply Chain. July 1, 2021. Watch recording.