Advanced Engineering Materials

Coherent Unveils Additive Manufacturing Technology to Produce Advanced Ceramic Components for High-Performance Thermal Management Applications

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in ceramics and metal matrix composites, today announced that it has developed an additive manufacturing process capable of producing advanced ceramic components for high-performance thermal management applications, including for next-generation semiconductor capital equipment.

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  • PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in ceramics and metal matrix composites, today announced that it has developed an additive manufacturing process capable of producing advanced ceramic components for high-performance thermal management applications, including for next-generation semiconductor capital equipment.
  • Coherent has successfully developed proprietary materials and technologies that enable ceramic components produced with its additive manufacturing process to match those produced with its existing molding process in their mechanical and thermal properties.
  • Ceramic components manufactured with the new additive manufacturing process can now be precision-machined using the most advanced laser-based techniques, including those available at Coherent.
  • “Ceramic additive manufacturing enables components that are lighter and with entirely new geometries, which are required for next-generation semiconductor capital equipment designs.

City Tech Chemistry Professor Creates Innovative Tool for Distance Learning Being Used at Educational Institutions Across the U.S.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

To drive the spectrometer, Deiner and his partners created a kit including custom software and a six-module curriculum of experiments.

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  • To drive the spectrometer, Deiner and his partners created a kit including custom software and a six-module curriculum of experiments.
  • City Tech Provost and Chemical Engineer Pamela Brown says, “Typically, spectrometers are expensive pieces of equipment, accessible only in chemistry labs.
  • In learning how to create hands-on place-independent activities and foster social and community interaction across distance, we met an urgent need.
  • Jay Deiner is an Associate Professor of Chemistry (City Tech, CUNY) and co-founder of Trimontana, an educational technology company devoted to enabling place-independent hands-on STEM learning.

Arist Launches Sidekick, First Generative AI Corporate Learning Design Tool

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arist has become the first corporate learning tool to integrate generative AI.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arist has become the first corporate learning tool to integrate generative AI.
  • Sidekick — the first generative AI course builder — uses AI specifically to craft bit-size learning moments and deliver it the Arist way, in messaging apps like MS Teams, Slack, and SMS.
  • Michael Ioffe, co-founder and CEO of Arist, notes, "Too many people are talking about AI instead of using AI to make life easier and smarter.
  • Sidekick uses Open AI's generative AI capabilities to create learning moments that utilize the latest learning science and the Arist course model.

Ingersoll Rand Announces Appointment of Mark Stevenson and Michael Stubblefield to Board of Directors

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions, today announced that Mark Stevenson and Michael Stubblefield joined its Board of Directors on July 28, 2022.

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  • Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions, today announced that Mark Stevenson and Michael Stubblefield joined its Board of Directors on July 28, 2022.
  • Prior to becoming CEO of Avantor in 2014, Mr. Stubblefield served as a senior expert in the Chemicals Practice for McKinsey & Company.
  • Mr. Stubblefield earned an MBA from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah.
  • Im excited to welcome Mark and Michael to our Board, said Ingersoll Rand Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer Vicente Reynal.

Microlearning Startup Raises $12 Million to Reimagine Workplace Learning for A New Generation

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arist, whose microlearning platform is used by Fortune 500 employers to meet their learners where they are, by delivering engaging learning content through messaging tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, today announced that it has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by pioneering growth-stage business software investor PeakSpan Capital, accompanied by Rainfall Ventures.

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  • "Arist cracked the code in delivering best-in-class learner experiences and outcomes through the marriage of exceptional bite-sized learning material with the channels that learners prefer to use."
  • Existing corporate training platforms rely on resource intensive course creation methods, and require learning development times of between 79 and 490 hours per learner hour.
  • But today's legacy learning and development tools are not keeping pace with the way that this new generation engages with the world of work," said Michael Ioffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Arist.
  • Arist first launched its text-based training programs in 2018, as a way to provide learning opportunities in war zones where internet was limited.