featured a Q&A with Habib Dagher, director of the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), on plans for the Factory of the Future. Scheduled to be complete in 2026, the advanced manufacturing facility will be housed in the new Green Engineering and Materials building, a partnership between the ASCC, the º£½ÇÉçÇø College of Engineering and Computing and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. GEM is supported by several funding sources, including the Harold Alfond Foundation through UMS TRANSFORMS, Uº£½ÇÉçÇø, UMS, the U.S. Department of Defense, the º£½ÇÉçÇø Jobs & Recovery Act, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the state of º£½ÇÉçÇø and the Northern Border Regional Commission’s Catalyst Program.
