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President Cabrera's 2026 Summer Tour visit to Kaolin Park

September 15, 2026

From Invention to Impact: Closing America's Manufacturing Scale-Up Gap

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Georgia Tech experts are working to strengthen U.S. supply chain resilience by connecting critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, and logistics expertise to help move innovations from the lab to large-scale production.

This is an image of someone using VR goggles and a glove to control a humanoid robot holding a rubber mallet.

September 3, 2026

Georgia Tech Joins National Workforce Behind America’s Manufacturing Comeback

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Georgia Tech is joining the national Foundry School initiative to prepare the talent needed for a new era of American manufacturing, building on Tech’s work connecting students, industry and advanced manufacturing research.

September 1, 2026

New Center Seeks to Unlock the Science of Turbulence for Energy, Flight, and Discovery

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To advance understanding of turbulence, the National Science Foundation is establishing a new, $30 million Science and Technology Center (STC) at Michigan State University. Georgia Tech is among eight universities supporting the center.

The VR training platform allows Kia Georgia employees to gain hands-on experience with assembly tasks before working on the factory floor.

August 20, 2026

How Virtual Reality is Preparing Kia Workers for the Factory Floor Before Day One

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The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech has developed a virtual reality training platform that prepares Kia assembly workers for the pace of the production line.

Associate Professor Yuhang Hu and three male students from her lab gather around and look at a soft adhesive hydrogel they are studying.

August 19, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Mechanism Behind Soft-Material Adhesion

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The discovery challenges a long-held assumption in adhesion mechanics and reveals a new physical mechanism that governs how soft materials attach and detach.

George Tower, ISyE's new home in Tech Square.

August 4, 2026

ISyE Plays Key Role in Nearly $20 Million NSF Award for AI-Driven Manufacturing

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The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech is helping lead a nearly $20 million NSF initiative that will use AI-enabled automated laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery.

$Side-by-side scientific visualization comparing in-situ photoelasticity and modeled stress field evolution during fracture testing of a transparent material. The left panel shows a rectangular specimen with rainbow-colored stress patterns radiating from a crack tip near the center-right edge, while the right panel shows a corresponding color-coded stress map with blue, green, yellow, and red regions indicating increasing stress concentration around the crack tip. Labels at the top identify the two methods.$

July 24, 2026

Rapid Testing Offers Path to More Sustainable Material Choices

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At Georgia Tech’s Daedalus Lab, Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and engineers by rethinking how materials are tested for their fracture characteristics.

A participant at a Georgia Tech manufacturing workshop cuts metal on industrial equipment.

June 22, 2026

From Classroom to Manufacturing Floor: Teachers Build Real-World Manufacturing Skills at Georgia Tech

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Rural Georgia teachers gain practical machine shop training at Georgia Tech, bringing advanced manufacturing skills back to their classrooms.

May 27, 2026

Steven Ferguson Builds Better On-Ramps to Georgia Manufacturing, Education

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For Steven Ferguson, deputy director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium, advancing Georgia’s manufacturing industry and its workforce is personal.

Raheem Bayeh, Carrie Bruce, Sonny Perdue, Dick Henneman

May 15, 2026

MSHCI Receives Board of Regents Award for Best Department or Program

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Georgia Tech's MSHCI program received the 2026 Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program from the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents.

April 15, 2026

Vision AI Models Improve Decision Making in Manufacturing, Energy, and Finance

4 min read

Georgia Tech researchers have developed Diffusion-DFL, the first decision-focused learning model built on diffusion AI technology. It uses the same engineering behind image generators to help industries make more accurate, lower-cost planning decisions.

April 1, 2026

The Future of AI‑Powered Manufacturing

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ISyE is advancing the next generation of manufacturing through AI‑driven research that integrates data analytics, optimization, and human‑centered systems to create smarter, more resilient industrial ecosystems.

Blue and orange spirals against a light blue background.

March 17, 2026

Turning Carbon Into Chemistry

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a breakthrough system to manufacture valuable amino acids. It’s the most efficient system of its kind — and removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.

A photo of some of the researchers leading the project written about.

February 18, 2026

The Future of Healing: Smart Bandage Could Transform Diabetic Wound Care and Beyond

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GTRI and Georgia Tech have developed a smart bandage that could transform wound care for diabetic patients, battlefield soldiers, and others by enabling real-time insights and reducing invasive bandage changes for timely treatment.

Small metal lattice and cylindrical components arranged on a flat surface in the foreground, with several people standing and talking in a laboratory or workshop space in the background.

December 15, 2025

Manufacturing Consortium Helps Industry Close the Finish Gap

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Collaborative research at GTMI is helping manufacturers overcome critical challenges in finishing advanced materials for aerospace and defense applications.

December 3, 2025

Manufacturing’s Future Is High Tech

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Modern manufacturing blends AI, automation, and sustainability to create meaningful careers and economic resilience.

Founders of Allez Go: Adam Kulikowski and Jason Mo

November 4, 2025

Built in I2P: The Student Inventions You’ll Want to See to Believe

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Georgia Tech’s Fall 2025 I2P Showcase will feature over 60 student prototypes tackling real-world challenges.

October 7, 2025

ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology

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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

Students across Georgia are designing and 3D printing pinewood derby cars as part of a new hands-on advanced manufacturing initiative.

September 23, 2025

Advanced Manufacturing Takes Off in Georgia Classrooms

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Launched this fall, Georgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Program works to spark interest in high-tech careers and strengthen Georgia’s talent pipeline.

Lukas Berg (right), who flew several variants of the UH-60 Blackhawk over the course of his career, celebrated his final flight before joining the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute in August.

September 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Taps Military Talent to Boost Manufacturing Workforce

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Georgia Tech’s partnership with the Hiring Our Heroes program grows with a new fellowship placement focused on rural outreach and manufacturing workforce readiness.