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SAMPE Conference & Exhibition
Tours

Monday May, 19 2025 

SAMPE 2025 Tours

SAMPE 2025 in Indianapolis isn’t "just another industry event;" SAMPE has created a space where breakthrough innovations emerge from serendipitous collisions between curious minds. It's where materials engineers, researchers, and industry pioneers stop working in silos and start weaving the future of our field together, one conversation at a time.

 

The difference between ordinary conferences and extraordinary ones? It's in the details, like SAMPE’s exclusive learning experiences – Tours and Tutorials.
 

Happening Monday, May 19, each morning Tutorial can be paired with an afternoon Tour or opt to spend the day at Purdue's Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center.

Take advantage of early-bird pricing (until March 31) on SAMPE’s Premium Conference Pass (one Tour and one Tutorial are complimentary) and save up to $40 over Full Conference or a la carte pricing, while securing your seat in the experience of your choice.

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Read more about the Tours below or check out the Tutorials here. 

Industry Technical Tour: Dallara IndyCar Factory & Purdue’s Sports Engineering Center

Tour Details:

  • Capacity: 20

  • Date: May 19, 2025, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

  • Cost: $75 (One Tour and one Tutorial are complimentary with a Premium Conference Pass)

Experience advanced materials engineering in action at Dallara's U.S. headquarters in Speedway, Indiana – where theory meets application in the high-performance world of motorsports. In a partnership designed to enhance motorsports engineering education and research, Purdue’s motorsports engineering program relocated to Dallara's U.S. headquarters. Engineering Highlights & Experiences:

  • Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Observe carbon fiber layup techniques, autoclave curing protocols, and quality control methodologies for composite structures

  • Engineering Simulation & Testing: See how materials performance is validated through physical testing and correlates with simulation data

  • Interactive Simulator Experience: Understand the practical results of materials engineering decisions through driver feedback systems

  • Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center (RESEC): Explore this new collaboration between Purdue's College of Engineering and Intercollegiate Athletics, featuring applied materials research facilities.

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As the supplier for IndyCar, Indy NXT, NASCAR, and IMSA vehicles, Dallara represents practical materials science excellence in demanding applications.

Aerospace Manufacturing at Rolls-Royce

Tour Details:

  • Capacity: 40

  • Date: May 19, 2025, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Address:  2359 S Tibbs Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46241

  • Cost: $75 (One Tour and one Tutorial are complimentary with a Premium Conference Pass)

  • Requirements: Must be a US Citizen (with proof of citizenship upon arrival), wear closed toed shoes, and attendees cannot be on crutches.

Tour the state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce production engine assembly facility.

SMC Manufacturing Operations Tour – IDI Composites International, Noblesville, IN

Tour Details:

  • Capacity: 30

  • Duration: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  • Address: 15389 North Pointe Boulevard Noblesville, IN 46060

  • Cost: $75 (One Tour and one Tutorial are complimentary with a Premium Conference Pass)

Tour will take approximately 1 hour and cover the following:

  1.  3i Analytical lab: A brief description of our various lab instruments and what they do / when we use them.

  2.   Resin Tank Farm: Go over our resin systems and additives.

  3.   SMC glass delivery: Highlight our unique way to deliver glass to our SMC lines.

  4.  SMC Compounding: See the SMC line and how it runs, where the resin and pigments are mixed / any additional additives now added in the tank farm areas, and how the glass is coated in paste.

  5.  Maturation Room: The last step in the SMC process is maturing the material in a warm environment. Each formulation has differing maturation cycles. In this room, we will also show our automated guided vehicle material movement system.

  6.  Overview of BMC area: This will be a brief stop to show that we also manufacture BMC materials. This stop will be at our mixers for BMC material.

  7.  Meet back in the training room after the tour for additional Q&A.​

Purdue's Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center Experience

Tour Details:

  • Capacity: 50

  • Date: May 19, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

  • Cost: $300 (The Purdue Experience is complimentary with a Premium Conference Pass)

Come experience the Composites Manufacturing and Simulation Center at Purdue University, where we specialize in simulation for composites manufacturing and performance. Tour our 15,000 sqft of laboratory facilities, featuring emerging manufacturing technologies in Large Scale Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Fiber Placement, in-situ Space Manufacturing, and high-rate Thermoplastic Stamp Forming. Learn about physics-based and artificial intelligence-enabled simulation tools for manufacturing and performance across the aerospace, automotive, and wind energy industries. This tour is a 2-1 as this tour is a full-day experience! Lunch will be included as well.

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Please note that as a 2-1 experience, this will count as your 1 complimentary tutorial and 1 complimentary tour.

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