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Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Collaboration Across the Innovation Pathway

Progress in thermomagnetic processing requires coordinated contributions from fundamental research through equipment development and industrial evaluation.

The Center connects materials science, physics, computational modeling, system engineering, and manufacturing expertise. These collaborations help translate scientific understanding into predictive tools, processing capabilities, and experimentally validated approaches relevant to industrial materials and components.

Ways to Collaborate
The Center works with collaborators at different stages—from defining scientific questions to developing equipment and evaluating industrial applications.
Joint Research
Develop collaborative studies, proposals, and experimental programs addressing fundamental and applied thermomagnetic-processing questions.
Modeling & Prediction
Combine thermodynamics, kinetics, multiscale modeling, and process simulation to guide experiments and predict materials response.
Technology & Equipment Development
Collaborate on magnetic-field systems, induction heating, process integration, controls, and specialized experimental capabilities.
Materials & Component Evaluation
Evaluate materials, heat-treatment conditions, field-on and field-off behavior, and industrial components using relevant characterization method

Industry & Technology Partners

Industry partners connect the Center’s research capabilities with equipment development, materials processing, component applications, and manufacturing needs.

These collaborations provide industrial materials and components, specialized modeling and process expertise, thermomagnetic equipment development, and opportunities to evaluate emerging approaches against established manufacturing practices.

Industry Partner Contributions
Partners contribute complementary capabilities across modeling, equipment development, materials supply, component applications, and manufacturing evaluation.
DANTE Solutions
Provides heat-treatment modeling expertise and computational tools supporting process analysis and prediction.
John Deere
Supports evaluation of thermomagnetic processing for industrial components and comparison with established manufacturing practices.
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic
Supports the development and commissioning of the induction-coupled 2 T thermomagnetic processing system.
LOUKUS TECHNOLOGIES / VISION MATERIALS
Contributes materials expertise and industrial collaboration supporting thermomagnetic-processing research and technology development.

Research & Institutional Collaborators

Research institutions extend the Center’s experimental, computational, and materials-development capabilities.

Collaborations with universities and national laboratories bring together specialized expertise, facilities, and perspectives needed to investigate thermomagnetic-processing mechanisms and translate fundamental results into validated processing strategies.

Research Collaborators
University and national-laboratory collaborators contribute specialized expertise in materials science, physics, modeling, characterization, and process development.
University of Florida
Connects expertise across materials science and engineering, physics, computational modeling, characterization, and manufacturing research.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contributes national-laboratory expertise and collaborative capabilities supporting materials and thermomagnetic-processing research.

Government-Supported Programs

Government-supported research enables the Center to connect fundamental science, advanced processing capabilities, and industrially relevant demonstrations.

The Center’s thermomagnetic-processing activities have been advanced through U.S. Department of Energy support, bringing together university researchers, national-laboratory expertise, technology developers, and manufacturing partners to investigate energy-efficient materials processing and pathways toward industrial implementation.

Supported Research
Public investment supports collaborative research, specialized infrastructure, workforce development, and translation of thermomagnetic-processing concepts toward manufacturing applications.
U.S. Department of Energy
Supports collaborative research and development of integrated thermomagnetic processing for energy-efficient materials manufacturing.

Start a Collaboration

We welcome conversations with researchers, industry partners, government programs, national laboratories, and technology developers.

Contact the Center to discuss joint research, facility-enabled experiments, predictive modeling, equipment and process development, materials evaluation, or opportunities to translate thermomagnetic-processing concepts toward industrial applications.

Email Yang Yang at yangyang2@ufl.edu.