Student Grant Recipients

MPIF is grateful to the National Science Foundation for its support of students to attend the PowderMet2024 and AMPM2024 conferences. This support provides student participants with opportunities to exchange ideas with leading researchers and engineers from worldwide industrial and governmental facilities, as well as with students and faculty from both domestic and international universities. Student participants will learn the latest research areas and results in powder metallurgy fields of interest. These opportunities will not only improve the students’ knowledge in the field, but also develop scientists and engineers who are ideally suited to create the next generation of designs in powder metallurgy and metal additive manufacturing that will push materials and manufacturing capabilities.

California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA)
•    Amirhesam Shakibizadeh
University of Castilla-La Mancha
•    Alvaro Garcia
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
•    Amit Pathak
Pennsylvania State University, DuBois
•    Hope E. Spuck

CPMT/Axel Madsen Conference Grants History

Axel Madsen was well-known in the PM industry as a successful entrepreneur. He co-founded Allied Sinterings, Inc., Danbury, CT, in 1959. The company began in a converted diner with four employees and went on to develop a successful niche business producing high-precision, small, and intricate PM parts. Madsen was a creative toolmaker and an expert on high-precision PM parts. He was active in the Powder Metallurgy Parts Association (PMPA) of MPIF and served as a director.

The Axel Madsen Conference Grant Program was established by his family to encourage students to learn more about PM technology and pursue careers in the PM industry. Annually, four students receive full registration to the annual conference and a stipend for travel and lodging.