Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering ...

Continuous fiber 3D printer additively deposited fiber bundles generate the desired shape: (a) cone, (b) saddle, (c) parabolic dish. Source (All Images) | The Grainger College, University of Illinois ...

Aerospace undergrad Alex Kuehnle observes PhD student Ivan Wu in the composites laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large ...