Announcements
January 2009
Virtual Reconstruction of a Juvenile Apatosaurus in collaboration with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural HistoryThe Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has collected limited number of bones (15%) from a juvenile Apatosaurus and are in the process of reconstructing the entire skeletal structure. SEAM is helping paleontologists to virtually reconstruct the remaining bone structure using existing data and domain specific knowledge. Computer aided design(CAD) software and rapid prototyping technologies are being extensively used to reconstruct the entire juvenile structure. Traditional techniques of clay modeling, molding and casting are cumbersome and time consuming. The new digitally enabled process will significantly cut down the modeling and fabrication timeline.
November 2008
EDGE endowment policy board gives research nod in Oklahoma: Endowment gives five innovators $12 million for developing new technology
....A project by Shivakumar Raman revolves around reverse engineering toward advanced manufacturing. By using innovative hardware and software, the project will offer advanced testing and manufacturing of replacement parts to military aviation and the commercial aerospace industry.
The 15-minute presentations were followed by a question-and-answer period in which the policy board members raised points such as the amount of Oklahoma jobs that might be created by each project and their previous experience with the technology they were pitching.