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Brent Stucker, PhD is the Senior Vice President & Chief Scientist at 3D Systems.

Prior to joining 3D Systems, Brent was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Additive Manufacturing at Ansys. 3DSIM, the company Brent Co-Founded & led as CEO, was acquired by ANSYS in November 2017.

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Brent led the establishment of ASTM Int'l Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies (and its partnership with ISO TC261), was the first Chair from 2009-2014, and was elected to the ASTM Int'l Board of Directors from 2015-2017. Brent has been a leading researcher in AM for more than 25 years, with projects ranging from new materials development for biomedical implants and aerospace/defense structures to multi-scale modeling and control of AM machines. He was a professor from 1997-2015, with appointments at Univ. of Louisville, Utah State Univ., Univ. of Rhode Island and VTT Technical Research Center, Finland.

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Jason Lopes is currently a Global Market Development Engineer at Carbon. He specializes in custom workflows for integrating with 3D Printing technologies.

Having worked as a systems engineer for over 10 years automating and processing massive amounts of 2D & 3D data for Visual Effects and Animation he has bridged these skill sets with designing for Additive Manufacturing since 2007 with Carbon, Legacy Effects and Stan Winston studios.

He’s also been recognized as an AMUG Distinguished Innovator (DINO).

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Mark Barfoot has deep roots in the AM community. He spearheaded the use of AM at Christie Digital Systems where, in addition to growing the AM engineering team, he developed the company’s Hyphen business which provides additive manufacturing and testing services to local companies. He is extensively involved with the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) and is a former president of the group.

Currently, Mark oversees EWI’s growing additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives and helps EWI develop new AM technology opportunities. He directs the Additive Manufacturing Consortium (AMC), a national consortium of industry, government, academic and non-profit research organizations operated by EWI.

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Today we have a special episode featuring students from the inaugural 3Degrees AMx – Advanced Manufacturing Experience.

Working with local community group West Side Forward, this course

aimed to bring the excitement and opportunity of jobs in the advanced manufacturing sector to underserved communities. The 3D Printing industry has grown up to 30% over the past five years, adding thousands of new-collar jobs to the American workforce. Yet just because the additive manufacturing industry has jobs, it doesn’t mean there isn’t difficulty filling them. New collar positions, like the ones created by industrial 3D Printing, value technical skills over college degrees— something difficult to find in today’s workforce. 3Degrees is working to solve this problem.

I’ve seen this first-hand as an entrepreneur running two companies that help large manufacturing organizations (e.g., government, aerospace, automotive) implement 3D Printing technology. My clients tell me time and again that they have well-paying, benefit-eligible jobs that they cannot fill. It seems the US has forgotten how to train its workforce for today’s jobs that do not require a college degree.” “On the flip side, access to finding jobs in this industry is not straight forward. Most of these companies are small (100 employees) and unless you have some network or understanding of the industry you may not know what’s happening in the white, non-descript, windowless buildings on the side of the highway.’

The pilot course was a combination of in person instruction, tours of leading 3D Printing facilities like Renishaw, Impossible Objects, and mHub as well as mentors from across the industry (Siemens

Energy, EOS, Desktop Metal, Met-l-Flo, Dyndrite, Forecast3D). Throughout the duration of the course, the class got to trial different technologies and design their own parts using the Future of

Jewelry online software. Students had the opportunity to receive the Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) certification from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and America Makes upon completing the course. The program culminated with a guided tour of North America’s largest 3D Printing trade show Rapid.

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Daniel Herrington is the founder & CEO of Voxel Innovations, a manufacturing company based out of Raleigh, NC. Voxel is a pioneer in pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), an efficient, accurate and specialized approach to machining high-quality metal components for medical, aerospace, energy and other industries. Before starting his own company, Daniel worked as a professional racecar driver in both the Indy Pro and Grand Am series. He also spent several years with the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) in Washington, D.C. and worked as an independent advanced manufacturing consultant.

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Casey Melvin and her sister Janine are two dynamic, entrepreneurial sisters who co-founded THEFUTUREOFJEWELRY. The “Warby Parker of Jewelry” is a full-service digital jewelry design house and manufacturer. TFOJ specializes in creating the digital software infrastructure and physical supply chain for designing, creating, and finishing custom jewelry pieces in a wide variety of materials. The company, established by the sisters in early 2017, was founded to make jewelry customization easier, more affordable, and accessible for all.

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Chris Yakacki is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the President and CTO of Impressio Inc., a start-up company focused on commercializing liquid-crystal elastomer technology, which was spun-out of and licensed from the university.

From an academic standpoint, his goal is to develop a world-class research group as part of the Smart Materials and Biomechanics (SMAB) Lab. One theme of the SMAB Lab is to focus on the development and application of multi-functional smart materials with an emphasis on biomedical devices.

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Kareem Aggour is a Principal Scientist in the AI technology discipline at GE Research. He joined GE in 1998 and transferred to GE Research in 2000.

Kareem develops Big Data and knowledge discovery solutions to solve a wide range of digital industrial challenges. For example, he led the development of a scalable Big Data infrastructure accelerating Aviation Digital Twin analytic executions by 100-2,000x. In addition, Kareem led the development of a Big Data platform reducing the runtime of next-generation DNA sequencing data analysis pipelines from weeks to hours. Currently, he is working with GE Additive leading the development of a knowledge-driven federated Big Data storage and analytics platform for capturing and analyzing data across the additive manufacturing lifecycle.

Kareem and I met through the Common Data Model working group, in which he is leading one of the industry efforts to standardize the organization and dissemination of 3D Printing data.

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Michael Cao founded IC3D in 2012 as a 3D printer design and manufacturing company. IC3D is one of the first 3D printer companies to manufacture their own line of 3D printing filament in-house. For 13 years Michael was a senior mechanical engineer at Honda R&D where he has earned several automotive patents and designs interiors for future products. Michael started his Honda career in 2003 after completing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Oklahoma. While at OU, Michael led the Formula SAE team to design and build race cars for the annual collegiate level competition. Michael was also led the Honda team to redesign the interior of the Acura NSX.

He joins the show today to talk through his journey as an entrepreneur and how IC3D is building a fully end to end materials and manufacturing company.

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Yannick Willemin is into innovation and technology topics with deep experience in the composite and advanced materials field. He has both an engineering degree in mechanics and an MBA in entrepreneurship. During his 13 years at SGL Carbon, he acquired both composites and managerial experience through his roles in R&D, Sales, Procurement, and Innovation Strategy. In January 2020, he joined 9T Labs as Head of Marketing & Business Development.

He joins the show today to talk about composite manufacturing and 3D Printing

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