A public-private partnership is helping UNT engineering graduate students hone their skills in additive manufacturing. The U.S. Department of State and Partners of the Americas recently announced UNT's College of Engineering as a winner of its latest 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grant competition. The funding allows UNT and two institutions in Mexico to start a study abroad course this fall for students from both countries. Students will study in Mexico and at UNT's newly established Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing.

Chemistry professor Oliver Chyan recently received the largest ever royalty distribution for commercialized technology at UNT. Wafer characterization technology developed in his College of Science laboratory was licensed through UNT's Office of Innovation and Commercialization to a major chip designer for use in microchip research and development. Chyan's patented technology is an improved method for detecting defects in microchips.

Hanchen Huang, dean of the UNT College of Engineering, recently was elected a Fellow of ASM International for his distinguished contributions to the fields of materials science and engineering. Elected by his peers, Huang received the honor for his scientific contributions in developing a theoretical framework of nanorod growth, technological contributions to inventing metallic glue and entrepreneurship in commercializing the metallic glue.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jincheng Du recently received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to research the nature of phase separations in glass materials and their biomedical applications. Du, an expert on glass and amorphous materials, will visit the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil in spring 2020 to study advanced inorganic glass materials for biomedical applications and investigate the fundamental phenomenon of microscale phase separation glasses.