DREAM Research Center

Share a dream with us.

A world-class manufacturing infrastructure with the capability of your dreams: secure, reliant, diversified, and led by a growing workforce of next-generation technicians.

Through the DREAM Research Center, we are building the foundational cyberinfrastructure that will bring Distributed Intelligent Additive Manufacturing (DIAM) to New Mexico and beyond. Collaborating across 4 research institutions with specialized skillsets in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, distributed networking systems, advanced manufacturing, and industrial engineering, we are funded by an EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence (E-RISE) grant awarded in 2024.

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Logo for DREAM, letters inside the state of NM with a 3D-printing head extruding a filament connecting the 4 collaborating sites
4 Institutions

From across Northern and Southern NM — NMSU, UNM, NMT, & NTU

11 Leads

With expertise spanning AI, cybersecurity, networking, manufacturing, and education — Helping make DIAM a reality 

$7M

in Funding

Funded by NSF EPSCoR RII E-RISE grant from 2024 to 2028  award #OIA-2417062

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Prototypes and mass-market builds made in your neighborhood.

Using robust, locally-sourced materials.

With patent-respected designs given protected access.

Driven by a workforce made up of your neighbors.

Neighbors who have turned creating into careers.

Dream of additive manufacturing distributed throughout New Mexico, networked securely with robust quality control processes and awaiting remote access
...worm gears humming in the desert...
...extruders painting at the top of snowy sky-island mountains...
...spools of filament and custom products shipped in view of the headwaters of the Gila...
Dream of hundreds of advanced facilities on US soil powered by and beneficial for the communities they reside in.

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