One Shot: The future of transportation

The future of transportation – think urban air mobility – calls for a new generation of manufacturing. Grad student Buzz Rankouhi is building an audacious prototype and a company to do it.

What do a Chicago skyscraper, NASA rockets and 3-D printing have in common?

For Buzz Rankouhi, something very important.

Rankouhi, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, is advancing a cutting-edge project with a long legacy and deceptively simple goal.

“At the highest level, what we’re trying to do is develop a new way to combine different materials together to manufacture objects,” he says.

Read full story at https://www.warf.org/accelerator-pipeline/february-2021-accelerator-pipeline-newsletter/one-shot-the-future-of-transportation/