{"id":161794,"date":"2025-09-25T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=161794"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:06:56","slug":"dayton-daily-news-wright-state-engineers-land-3m-federal-grant-to-study-scrap-metal-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/25\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-engineers-land-3m-federal-grant-to-study-scrap-metal-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State engineers land $3M federal grant to study scrap metal recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/25\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-engineers-land-3m-federal-grant-to-study-scrap-metal-recycling\/250820-01-banerjee-lab-nsf-grant-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-161840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-161840\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2025\/09\/Natasha-Banerjee-250820-02_011-1-508x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>Wright State University research could transform how scrap metal is recycled into new products.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Banerjee and Sean Banerjee, associate professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received a nearly $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the research.<\/p>\n<p>The research looks at recycling manufacturing and how recycling plants could make small products from broken but intact large metal objects, like refrigerators or washing machines.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Banerjee said the idea is that a manufacturer could accept a broken washing machine or refrigerator and use the metal to make something else.<\/p>\n<p>She said she and Sean Banerjee both own older cars and frequently struggle to find parts. This model could help alleviate this problem, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The project could help revive small manufacturing in the U.S., according to the Banerjees, who are married. Natasha Banerjee said the project will explore how small-scale manufacturing could use recycled materials and how it could scale for business.<\/p>\n<p>The plant employees would be trained as \u201crecyclofacturers,\u201d using artificial intelligence, virtual reality headsets and robots to help with assembly and welding, Natasha Banerjee said.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State is leading the research and collaborating with an economist from Chapman University, a sociologist from the University of Lynchburg, a roboticist and a human factors expert from Santa Clara University, community leaders in recycling and manufacturing and members of the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/husband-wife-engineers-land-3m-federal-grant-for-wright-state-to-study-scrap-metal-recycling\/SL2Z4LCYI5F7DCBX5RSKYWV5EM\/\">Read the complete article at daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research at Wright State University could transform how scrap metal is recycled into new products. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/25\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-engineers-land-3m-federal-grant-to-study-scrap-metal-recycling\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":161840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161794"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161846,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161794\/revisions\/161846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}