Dr. Chukwuzubelu Ufodike, Assistant Professor in the Industrial Distribution program at Texas A&M University and Director of the Digital Manufacturing and Distribution Lab (DMD-Lab), has been named a co-investigator on the three-year, $1.2 million NASA-supported project “VITAL: Virtual Institute for Temporal and Additive Learning.” The project focuses on coastal ecosystem research using AI-guided, 3D-printed biodegradable sensors, with Prof. Ufodike’s lab contributing to additive manufacturing and materials design.