Advanced Manufacturing as a Strategic Initiative

1. Advanced Manufacturingas a Strategic Initiative Mike Mannis, CEcD, Centralina Economic Development Commission Robert Wilhelm, Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic DevelopmentUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

2. The Future of Manufacturing Opportunities to drive economic growth A World Economic Forum Report In collaboration with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited April 2012 Clean Energy Strategies Accelerated Innovation Talented Human Capital Infrastructure to Enable Manufacturing

3. From the World Economic Forum Report • Clean Energy Strategies • Affordable clean energy strategies and effective energy policies will be top priorities for manufacturers and policy-makers, and serve as important differentiators of highly competitive countries and companies. • Accelerated Innovation • The ability to innovate, at an accelerated pace, will be the most important capability differentiating the success of countries and companies.

4. From the World Economic Forum Report • Talented Human Capital • Talented human capital will be the most critical resource differentiating the prosperity of countries and companies. • Infrastructure to Enable Manufacturing • The infrastructure necessary to enable manufacturing to flourish and contribute to job growth will grow in importance and sophistication and be challenging for countries to develop and maintain.

5. What do you think? • Affordable clean energy strategies and effective energy policies will be top priorities for manufacturers and policy-makers, and serve as important differentiators of highly competitive countries and companies. • Question 1: • Rank the Charlotte Region's Standing (1-5;5 is best) as a center for clean energy strategies

6. What’s Important? • Question 2: Which is most important to the growth of manufacturing in the Charlotte Region? (choose 1) • Accelerated Innovation • Talented Human Capital • Infrastructure that enables manufacturing

7. Where Should We Focus? • Question 3: What is the Charlotte Region best at?   (choose 1) • Accelerated Innovation • Talented Human Capital • Infrastructure that enables manufacturing

8. UNC Charlotte • Over 26,000 students • Over 80,000 alumni • Over 5200 graduate students • Programs: 89 undergraduate, 61 MS, 19 Ph.D. • Over $30 Million in yearly expense of Research Dollars. • UNC Charlotte is the Research University for the Charlotte Region.

9. UNC Charlotte • Belk College of Business • College of Arts + Architecture • College of Computing and Informatics • College of Education • College of Health and Human Services • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences • Graduate School • Lee College of Engineering

10. Lee College of Engineering • Civil and Environmental Engineering • Electrical and Computer Engineering • Engineering Technology • Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science • Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

11. Charlotte Research Institute • University Portal forScience and EngineeringThe Business Partner • Created in 2000 – Strong Business Support • Mission • Connect Research to Business • Market Results and Partnerships • Access to Millennial Campus • Grow UNC Charlotte Research • Seed funding for Industry Partnerships

12. Long Partnership with EDA • Construction project for optoelectronics • Supporting partner R&D • New companies growing on CRI campus • Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives • Regional resource guide • Alignment with new manufacturing opportunities

13. CRI Millennial Campus • Over 100 acres of land with 11 buildings • 2 buildings in planning, design, and construction • Commercial development sites now marketed

14. Internationally Known Research Centers • Optoelectronics • Harnessing the Power of Light • Informatics,Visual Analytics, & Information Security • Rich Data, Efficient, Consumer-friendly, and Secure • Precision Metrology • Good Things Come in Small Packages

15. Newer Research Initiatives • Energy Production and Infrastructure • Bioinformatics • Nanoscale Science • Biomedical Engineering Systems • Translational Medical Research, Cancer Research • Motorsports and Automotive Engineering • Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability Initiative

16. EPIC:Energy Production & Infrastructure Center • Mission: • Produce Technical Workforce • Advance Research and Technology • Create Strategic Industry-University Collaboration for Global Energy Industry • Develop Carolinas’ Economic & Energy Security Driver: The energy industry faces a workforce crisis as retirements combine with the need for additional technical employees to build new energy facilities. Charlotte has emerged as an energy engineering stronghold, with more than 200 specific "power cluster" firms.

17. EPIC: Educational Initiatives • Undergraduate Education • Energy & Power Concentrations in all Degrees • Industry Oriented Capstone Design Courses • Industry Directed Graduate Education • Graduate Certificate Programs • Interdisciplinary PhD studies • Continuing Education • Licensing and Skills Update EPIC has the solid backing of an industry that wants a higher education resource, testing and research services, and economic development

18. EPIC: Focus Areas • Power Systems Engineering • Fundamentals of power generation and distribution, Quality and reliability of energy systems, Alternative energy • Power System Infrastructure • Specification, construction, operation, maintenance, and improvement of power generation and distribution infrastructure, Management of input fuel and wastes streams. • Power Plant Engineering • Design, integration, operation, optimization, maintenance, renovation and decommissioning of the components and subsystems in a power plant

19. EPIC: Infrastructure • North Carolina has funded $73M EPIC Building • $5M Annual Budget for Faculty, Research, and Programs • Integral Part of Larger CRI Campus

20. EPIC Faculty Recruitment • Dr. Johan Enslin, EPIC Director • Recruiting to fill 20 positions • Current Strengths • Distribution and Smart Grid • Photovoltaic Materials • Commissioning and Integration • Large Scale Machinery for Generation

21. EPIC Partners AREVA Shaw Group URS/Washington Metso Tessera • Duke Energy • EPRI • Siemens • Westinghouse • Evonik Duke Energy, Siemens, and Westinghouse have committed over $10M in support of EPIC

22. EPIC Crosses Over WithLarge-Scale Manufacturing Large-scale manufacturing is characterized by: Products with largest critical feature size in the ~5 to 25+ meter range Annual production rates of ~10 to 100’s of units Complex systems with tight tolerance requirements on components and assemblies

23. Why is Large-Scale Manufacturing Important Enables energy, transportation, industrial, and construction infrastructure of the USA

24. Industries & Companies Involved in Large-Scale Manufacturing • Energy • Siemens, GE, Allstom, MHI • Transportation/Aerospace • GE, Boeing, General Dynamics,… • Agricultural and Mining Equipment • Caterpillar, Komatsu, … • Industrial Equipment

25. Why is Charlotte Region the right place? • US universities have systematically moved away from manufacturing research and education • UNC Charlotte has continuously strengthened • largest and strongest group of faculty dedicated to manufacturing research in the USA • best equipped manufacturing laboratories • Charlotte is positioned as “Energy Hub” • Majority of power generation manufacturing takes place within 100 miles of Charlotte

26. The Big Picture • Innovation vital to our economic strength • Startup companies disrupt… • creative destruction • Startup companies drive U.S. job growth • Disruptive innovation increases productivity and standard of living

27. Our Deliverables Higher Education for the Knowledge Workforce of the 21st Century Applied Research in Key Economic Sectors Talent and Infrastructure for Partnerships The Right Platform for Innovation

28. National Ignition FacilityParts with micrometer tolerances

29. A novel germanium lens array was manufactured on a 5-axis freeform machine for use in credit-card thin thermal imaging systems. • Support: DoD/DARPA • Goal: Manufacture of a novel germanium lens array for credit card thin multi-imaging system. • Technical Challenges • Machining parameters • Tolerances • Finish 4 mm Novel Germanium Lens Array Such lenses can be miniaturized further of structured with sub-wavelength patterns for many thermal imaging applications…”Fly’s Eye” Thermal arrays. Results

30. Unconventional machine design proposed at Charlotte Researchers worked with NAVSEA to enable the high speed machining of Bronze C95800 Propulsors for the new Virginia Class Submarine. • Goal: To enable high-speed machining of components for VA-class submarine • Technical Challenges • Machining parameters • Regenerative Vibrations (Chatter) • Machine Design • Thermal Control Unclassified solid model developed at Charlotte: 6 meters in diameter with a finished mass of approximately 55,000 kg. Unclassified component being conventionally machined Rendering of Virginia class submarine