Manufacturing the Future of Aerospace
The Advanced Composites Center’s vision is to build a robust innovation ecosystem for industry and academia to advance the field of data-driven methods for composites manufacturing. Our mission is to unleash the power of Digital Engineering and AI to discover solutions for high-rate, cost-effective, and sustainable composites manufacturing and educate the workforce of the future.
ACC will be the leader in using advances in data-based methods and machine learning for developing high-rate, cost-efficient composite manufacturing methods, reducing the environmental footprint of the aerospace industry and training the work-force of the future. Leveraging industrial partnerships, the ACC will transform fundamental research into practice, and feedback successful technologies into workforce education and training. The center will lead and act as a national magnet for design, manufacturing, evaluation and certification of novel energy-efficient lightweight composite systems.
The outcomes of the ACC include:
– Research
– Workforce education
– Educational outreach
– Professional technical training
– Commercialization
The ACC will have demonstrator-capable manufacturing floor, classroom and presentation space, graduate student suite, fully-equipped conference room, technical office, BARC engineering office, and (shared) industry-user office.
The ACC facility equipment will be available as a cost center for other UW and external users. Additionally, the center will be available for composites educational and outreach efforts.
Our Facilities
A physical facility with
state-of-the-art materials, robots, instrumentation,
and sensors for aerospace systems
Become a user at the ACC
The ACC facility equipment will be available as a cost center for other UW and external users. Additionally, the center will be available for composites educational and outreach efforts.
Recent News
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ACC Hosts Open SD 2026
The Advanced Composites Center is proud to have hosted Open SD 2026, the Open-Source Scientific Computing in Structural Dynamics Conference, welcoming students, researchers, and professionals from across the field. The event brought together a great mix of perspectives and sparked plenty of good conversation. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to Assistant Professor…
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First U.S.-Japan Workshop on Advanced Composites Manufacturing
This inaugural workshop is the first in a planned annual U.S.–Japan forum focused on advanced composites manufacturing. The primary focus of the workshop is technical exchange, with presentations from Japanese industry, Tohoku University, the University of Washington, and Boeing highlighting current research and development activities, ongoing projects, and technical capabilities.
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How Washington became a global epicenter for advanced carbon fiber
Thursday, April 1, 2021 UW ME News Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, carbon fiber materials are one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century. They play an especially important role in Washington, the world leader in carbon fiber composite manufacturing. Just as silicon is the material that underlies the innovation ecosystem…
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Marco Salviato, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Lara-Ashley Monroe, Program Manager
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