profile

Shuai Shao

Mechanical Engineering

McWane Associate Professor

Associate Director for Research and Innovation, NCAME

1454 Wiggins Hall

Faculty and staff can submit directory updates here.

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Research Interests

Additive Manufacturing
Materials Science
Computational Materials Science
Solid Interfaces
Multiscale Modeling

In The News

Civil and Environmental Engineering assistant professor in collaboration with the NCAME team to develop robot for efficient utility line installation

Ali Khosravi, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, teams up with NCAME to design a robot that can attach to a conduit, run it underground and resurface for another use.

Auburn Engineering’s additive manufacturing research is key component in NASA’s Invention of the Year

Auburn's work on the high-tech hardware that will take people to Mars has earned some impressive hardware of its own.

NSF award to significantly boost Auburn metal AM qualification research

A successful Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) proposal funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon significantly boost researchers at Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) in model-assisted qualification for additive manufacturing (AM) by establishing microstructure-property relationships in AM metallic materials.

Army invests another $4.35M in Auburn additive manufacturing qualification research

The U.S. Army is again asking Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) to help keep its caissons rolling toward the cutting edge.

NIST awards Auburn nearly $1M to lead NDE-based AM qualification via data analytics

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently awarded Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) and the ASTM Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) nearly $1 million to establish through computer vision and machine learning a data-driven framework for the non-destructive qualification of additively manufactured materials and parts for mission critical applications.

NCAME partners in $4M NSF project on rapid qualification for AM safety-critical components

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) continued confidence in Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence now includes a $4 million award for research on rapid qualification for additively manufactured (AM) safety-critical components used in the aviation, space and medical industries.

Army invests $4.3 million in Auburn University additive manufacturing research

The U.S. Army has asked Auburn University to help build the future of American combat readiness. Through a recent $4.3 million Army grant, the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) at Auburn University will soon initiate a two-year project focused on materials, parts and process qualification, all of which are necessary for furthering the adoption and implementation of additive manufacturing in Army operations.

Auburn leads statewide NASA project on simulation-based qualification for additive manufacturing

Auburn's reputation for additive manufacturing (AM) research has again preceded itself. A team of faculty from Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Harbert College of Business, composed mostly of leadership and affiliated faculty within Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME), received $750,000 in funding for their winning NASA EPSCoR — Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research — project proposal to investigate the structural integrity of additively manufactured (AM) metallic materials. The team also includes researchers from the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa and University of Alabama-Huntsville.

Interdisciplinary research team receives NSF future manufacturing grant for "multi-material additive nanomanufacturing of biodegradable paper electronics"

The team’s research demonstrates a transformative dry additive nanomanufacturing approach that enables the printing of eco-friendly papertronics.

Auburn researchers win big at major additive manufacturing conference

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s thought-leading expertise in additive manufacturing (AM) was on full display at the recent ASTM International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (ICAM), the largest virtual event ever hosted by the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence.