The Gill Corporation and USC partnership earns multiple awards at SAMPE conference
USC Advanced Composites Design Lab, advised and sponsored by Prof. Bo Jin (University of Southern California (USC)) and Chairman and CEO Stephen Gill (The Gill Corporation (TGC)), won two 1st Place, one 2nd Place, and two 3rd Place awards at the 2024 SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering) International Composites Contests held in Long Beach, California, May 21, 2024.
The contest allows college students to design, build, and test structures in real-world applications, using various composite materials, within the boundaries of the contest’s rules. Students put their composite knowledge to use and innovate new techniques using common industry materials. This year, various materials and manufacturing methods, stemming from USC-TGC collaborations, earned the USC Advanced Composites Design Lab five awards across different contest categories such as the fuselage design contest, composites bridge contest, and the additive manufacturing contest. The SAMPE International Composites Contest is an international student competition involving universities from around the globe, where students compete for prizes and the coveted SAMPE Student Champion trophy. Universities that attended the contest this year include USC, Centro Universitario de FEI, Kanazawa University, Old Dominion University, Tongji University of China, UCLA, Universidad de Autonoma Baja California (UABC), University of Delaware, University of Southern Maine, University of Washington, University of Dayton, and others.
About the collaboration: USC and TGC have a collaborative partnership that goes back several decades. M. C. Gill and his wife, Ellen Gill, the founders of TGC, Stephen Gill, the Chairman and CEO, and Jennifer Gill, VP, are all alumni of USC. In 2001 the Merwyn C. Gill Foundation donatehttps://www.thegillcorp.com/d $7 million to USC, establishing the Merwyn C. Gill Foundation Composites Center. Over two decades later the two entities continue to work together to further progress composite materials research and education.
About the Gill Corporation: The Gill Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high performance composite materials and products for aerospace, transportation and other industries. Products include honeycomb, sandwich panels, cargo compartment liners, specialty laminates, 3-, 5-, 6-axis CNC machined parts, fabricated assemblies, and other value-added solutions. The Gill Corporation has vertically integrated worldwide locations in Maryland, France, United Kingdom and is headquartered in El Monte, California.
