3Degrees Discussions

Nick Pearce is a Recruitment Entrepreneur, Founder and Director of Alexander Daniels Global and a Co-Founder of the broader Alexander Daniels Recruitment Group. The mission of Alexander Daniels Global is to enable the industrial revolution in additive and advanced manufacturing through talent. They work with the innovators and developers of additive manufacturing technology, materials and software...

That was Melanie Lang. Melanie is the co-founder and CEO of FormAlloy. Prior to FormAlloy, Melanie had over 15 years’ experience as an engineer and program manager with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. She holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and M.S. in Systems Architecture & Engineering from the University of Southern California. In addition to her role at FormAlloy,...

Kirk Rogers is a Technical Excellence Leader at the Barnes Global Advisors. For the last ten years, Kirk has used additive technologies to solve manufacturing, repair, and supply chain problems. He recently was the technical leader on the startup of a $40M Additive Manufacturing R&D center, culminating a nearly 20-year career at GE. Most of Kirk’s career has been in the medical device manufacturin...

Jason Reason is a widely recognized expert in safety and health with a special emphasis on combustible dust and industrial hygiene. Jason has performed hundreds of Dust Hazard Analysis for all types of combustible dust s in a myriad of industries. Her serves on a total of six technical committees and actively coordinates efforts to reshape combustible dust, safety, and health standards. While serv...

James Hedrick is currently the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Azul 3D, which is commercializing the first 3D printing technology capable of competing with the speed, strength, and economy of scale of injection molding. James started his first company at the age of 16. The profits paid for his college tuition at MIT, where he was also a NCAA student athlete. He went on to receive his PhD a...

That was Gregor Reischle. After extensive experience in the AM industry Gregor recently started his own consulting company called AM-Entrepreneur. Gregor started his career in the manufacturing space in the dental industry. He spent a number of years at EOS working as an application engineer and AM consultant. From there he moved on to TUV SUD to be the Global Head of Industrial Additive Manufactu...

Justin Michaud is the CEO and President of REM Surface Engineering. They specialize in finishing manufactured parts and joins the show today to talk about the history of the company as well as their work in 3D Printing. Justin has worked in all business segments of the REM organization and has specific domain expertise in the metal AM industry, the wind turbine gearbox OEM and repair industries, a...

Craig Brice is a Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. He is currently the director of the Advanced Manufacturing Program, which focuses on undergraduate and graduate education in additive manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing techniques. He is also involved in additive manufacturing research with the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processi...

Ryan Kircher is Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer at RMS. Ryan is an experienced metallurgist with a demonstrated history of working in the Additive Manufacturing industry. He has had extensive career working in the 3D Printing sector with stints at Lockheed Martin, Medical Modeling, 3D Systems, his own consulting company, and now RMS. Ryan has a ton of shop floor experience developing medica...

Paul Bates is an Additive Manufacturing Lead Project Engineer at ASTM. He is an experienced practitioner of the safe use of additive manufacturing in both a commercial space and training space. Paul has used most every form of 3D printing in the last 20 years, to develop both prototype and finished goods. He has developed business justifications for the use of these technologies as well as designe...

Juan Vega is an Undergraduate Engineering Lecturer at University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. Juan has had a passion for Additive Manufacturing for a number of years and is in the process of looking for PhD opportunities in the space. I thought it would be insightful to have him on the show today to hear his perspectives on getting traction within the AM space coming from So...

Andrew Roderick is a Senior Applications Engineer at Extol. Extol is a manufacturing technology company that improves the way plastic products are made. They provide plastic assembly technology, custom automation, and engineering services. From humble beginnings in 1985, Extol has become a recognized supplier of high quality, standard and custom plastics-joining equipment. Approximately 90 employe...

Ben DiMarco is a research specialist at The Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence at the Ohio State University. Before OSU Ben spent eight years at the Honda R&D Americas as an Additive Manufacturing Process Engineering and Project leader. He joins the show today to discuss his approach to AM education and the cutting edge research going on at the CDME. Before we get started head over to...

Joy Gockel is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and her research spans several aspects of additive manufacturing (AM). She joined Mines from Wright State University where she was an assistant professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Prior to her faculty position, she was a Lead Engineer at GE Aviation’s Additive Technology Center. She earned...

Callie Higgins is a scientist at the National Institute of Science and Technology where she focuses on photopolymer additive manufacturing. Her work focuses on using atomic force microscopy to detect and remedy flaws in additive manufactured parts. This research was highlighted earlier in the year when Callie was awarded the Service to America Medal for an Emerging Leader. Callie has a Doctor of P...

Bill Bihlman is the Founder of Aerolytics. The company’s focus is to improve market share and revenue for aerospace suppliers, from mill/forgers, to fabricators, assemblers and distributors. Bill started his career in 1995 as an engineer with Raytheon Aircraft. More recently, Bill was Senior Consultant with AeroStrategy. He spent four years working in the US office and was actively involved in ove...

That was Marcus Pont. Marucs is the CEO and founder of Domin. Domin Fluid Power is a product development company specialising in the development of fluid power subsystems and systems manufacturing through the utilisation of both subtractive and additive manufacturing, specifically DMLS (Metal 3D Printing). Within Domin, Marcus manages key aspects of the product development process from fundamental...

That was Mark Norfolk. Mark has over a decade of experience in manufacturing, R&D, and shop floor management. He leads Fabrisonic in the commercialization of Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) Technology. Mark led EWI’s development and research into UAM for four years leading up to the inception of Fabrisionic and has been with the company ever since. Prior to joining EWI, he held numerous ma...

Brad Rothenberg is the CEO & founder of nTopology, a startup developing Generative-Functional CAD software based in New York City. Prior to founding nTopology, Bradley graduated with honors studying Architecture at Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York. Brad has been developing computational design tools for advanced manufacturing for 10+ years. https://ntopology.com/ Before we get started head o...

Dr. Enrico Gallino is an Additive manufacturing materials specialist at Ricoh UK. He has a background in material science and polymers with experience in R&D, product development and technical support across different sectors (academia, energy, cosmetics, steel industry, additive manufacturing). He joins the show today to talk about his career and the variety of printer modalities and materials th...

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. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-stucker/ Brent led the establishment of ASTM Int'l Committee F42 on Additive Manuf...

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, Le...

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....

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-...

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...