Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at the University of Southern California, presents his promising new approach to automated construction of whole structures as well as subcomponents at a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 15 from 4:30-5:15 p.m., Salazar 2009A at Sonoma State University. The event is part of the the Engineering Science lecture series.
Khoshnevis has developed Contour Crafting, a mega-scale fabrication process with which a single house or a colony of houses may be constructed automatically in a single run with all plumbing and electrical utilities imbedded in each house.
The implication is especially profound for emergency shelter construction and low-income housing. NASA is exploring possible application of CC in building on other planets. This new mode of construction will be one of the very few feasible approaches for building on planets such as Moon and Mars, which are being targeted for human colonization before the end of the century.
Khoshnevis is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies and the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program. He is active within robotics, and mechatronics related research and development projects.
Khoshnevis has several major inventions, which have been either commercialized or are in the commercialization process. Besides teaching a graduate course on Invention and Technology Development at USC, he routinely conducts lectures and seminars on the subject of invention.
For more information, contact Jagan Agrawal, Director of the Engineering Degree Program, at (707) 664-4438.
