The 2012 Awards were open to those who had completed and satisfied examination requirements for a Doctoral award between 1 October 2009 and 1 October 2012, and had not applied for these Awards before.  

Additive manufacturing

Category sponsored by Rapid Prototyping Journal and Global Alliance of Rapid Prototyping Associations(GARPA) .

This category concentrates on rapid product development and additive technologies in a manufacturing environment, although applications within other areas, such as medicine or construction, are also accepted.

Winner

Dr Li Yang, North Carolina State University, USA 
"Structural Design, Optimization and Application of 3D Re-entrant Auxetic Structures"

Highly Commended

Dr Amit Lopes, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA 
"Hybrid Manufacturing: Integrating Stereolithography and Direct Print Technologies"

Dr Xiaoyong Tian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China 
"Rapid prototyping of ceramics by direct laser sintering"
The thesis was completed at the Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
 

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