Date/Time
Date(s) – 11/18/25
6:00 pm
Location
Ice House on Main
Categories
- Additive Manufacturing
- Mechatronics
- Prototyping
- Tech Startups
Ismail Hozain :: Starforge – Critical Infrastructure for Building Hardware
Ismail tells the story of Starforge, how it got started, what it’s accomplished so far and where the directors plan to take it in the coming years.
Starforge is building advanced manufacturing capabilities and making them accessible to the greater community, to enable everything from hobby scale projects all the way up to venture backed startups and R&D work. If executed correctly, this space may very well become the headquarters for developing and supporting A&M hands-on engineering talent.
Over the course of five semesters, Starforge has served hundreds of students, enabled dozens of new projects and supported a handful of organizations building atop its newly minted infrastructure and intends to expand on this work in the coming years.
Ismail is an engineering student at Texas A&M University. He is a founder and director of Starforge, a nonprofit student-run makerspace that serves the BCS area. His passions revolve around innovation, manufacturing, engineering and how to build next generation technology at scale. Backed with a grant from the Meloy Innovation Fund, he is investigating and implementing vacuum-process castings, which he thinks may be the future of rapid turnaround metal casting. Prior to starting Starforge, Ismail had led a 6 man team building a 6.6kN liquid fueled rocket engine and in his free time he loves to advise on and build interesting side projects.
