{"id":3655,"date":"2024-12-23T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:31:40","slug":"li-join-americas-additive-foundry-consortiums-journey-towards-tech-driven-entrepreneurial-success-rio-grande-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/li-join-americas-additive-foundry-consortiums-journey-towards-tech-driven-entrepreneurial-success-rio-grande-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Li: Join America\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium\u2019s journey towards tech-driven entrepreneurial success (Rio Grande Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following was originally published by Rio Grande Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. James Li is president and endowed professor of manufacturing engineering at UT-Rio Grande Valley and director at I-DREAM4D and America\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium was created and is supported by the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation.<\/p>\n

Li hosted recently spearheaded a presentation about America\u2019s Additive Foundry at the eBridge Center for Business & Commercialization in downtown Brownsville. It was co-hosted by the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation.<\/p>\n

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Dr. James Li, president and endowed professor of manufacturing engineering at UT-Rio Grande Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other speakers included Dr. Mostafa Malki, AAF\u2019s director for business development, Jeff Hoffart, Houston-based welding automation manager at Fronius USA LLC, and Liz Sanchez from Tech Ranch Austin.<\/p>\n

In his remarks from the podium, Li said it is important for his department at the university to get to know local manufacturing sector leaders and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important we work together with you to grow a strong manufacturing ecosystem here,\u201d Li said. \u201cAs a university, we sometimes apply to a federal agency for grants or funding to support what we are looking to do here. So it\u2019s very important that we talk to you directly to know what the local needs are, so we can align our work with what we want to become in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a posting on social media later, Dr. Li wrote: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium, in partnership with America Makes, concluded a successful awareness and entrepreneur training event in Brownsville. Grateful to Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation for hosting the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Li added: \u201cExciting developments in advanced manufacturing and entrepreneurship. Explore new business prospects in advanced manufacturing with us. Join the journey towards tech-driven entrepreneurial success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: The Rio Grande Guardian International News Service was the only news media outlet to cover the event. Below is an audio recording of Dr. Li\u2019s presentation. Click here to watch an interview with Dr. Malki.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following was originally published by Rio Grande Guardian Dr. James Li is president and endowed professor of manufacturing engineering at UT-Rio Grande Valley and director at I-DREAM4D and America\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium. America\u2019s Additive Foundry Consortium was created and is supported by the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. Li […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","page_builder":"","feature_success_story":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebridge-center","category-economic-development","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}