Dream with us:

An intelligent additive manufacturing industry founded by a resilient and secure distributed network that prioritizes rural and geographically disperse factories in New Mexico. Led by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) driving economic growth for the state. Imagine workers of a next-generation workforce with access to innovative educational resources and accreditations. That is the DREAM Research Center.

It's a big mission, but we have the firepower to back it:

The Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent-intelligence-based Additive Manufacturing (DREAM) is a collaborative initiative bringing together four research institutions in New Mexico through an NSF EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement (E-RISE RII) award. Collaborators from New Mexico State University (NMSU), University of New Mexico (UNM), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT), and Navajo Technical University (NTU) are pioneering a novel cyberinfrastructure for the evolving distributed intelligent additive manufacturing (DIAM) industry in the state of New Mexico.

Through research goals in advanced distributed networking, cybersecurity, and digital twin design for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, this project aims to overcome challenges of the industry relevant to the state of NM and serve as a model for deployment of DIAM globally. Concurrently, the DREAM Research Center will supplement these research goals by contributing to a statewide, integrated educational system that incorporates innovative educational technologies to make virtual education in advanced manufacturing more accessible in rural areas of NM and worldwide.