3Degrees Discussions

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 compan...

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...

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...

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 com...

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...

Andy Gleadall is a Senior Lecturer in Additive Manufacturing at Loughborough University. Since joining Loughborough University in 2017, his research has focused on material extrusion additive manufacturing in several areas, all enabled by microscale control of the print path. He developed and wrote open-source piece of software called, FullControl GCode Designer, to allow precise design for additi...

Paul Wilson is part of the Boeing Research and Technology Metallic Materials and Processes Team in St. Louis, Missouri. The focus of his work is finding, developing, and implementing novel alloys and processes for aircraft programs. Currently he is working on creating additive manufacturing processes and novel additive alloys for enterprise deployment Paul joins the show today to talk metal materi...

John Sorvillo is a licensed elementary school teacher who has been in educational administration for nearly a decade. At the Westwood Preparatory Academy, the students are in residential care, most under court custody with no familial provisions. As a director at the academy, Sorvillo builds programs, teaches, and counsels with the goal of inspiring hope through education. Initially, the academy h...

Chris Kaminsky is the lab manager at the Lakeshore Fab Lab at Muskegon Community College The facility, based in Muskegon, Michigan is an entrepreneurially focused makerspace working to give people access to technology and software that is typically out of reach for the general public. By night, Chris is an additive manufacturing evangelist working towards demystifying the complexities of 3D printi...

Sam Ruben is the Chief Sustainability Officer and a Co-Founder of Oakland based Mighty Buildings. Mighty Buildings is on a quest to build homes using 3D printing, robotics and automation. Their system is able to build homes “two times as quickly with 95% less labor hours and 10-times less waste” than conventional construction. In fact, they can 3D print a 350-square-foot studio apartment in just 2...

Jacob Rindler is the lead additive manufacturing engineer at The Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME). Before joining the Ohio State team, Jacob developed AM and advanced metals technologies at both Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and Boeing Research and Technology. Jacob attended The Ohio State University, where he holds a bachelor’s degree in welding e...

Frank Medina is an Associate Professor/ Director of Technology and Engagement at UTEP / W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation. Frank is a world-renowned expert in the area of AM and Electron Beam Melting. He has over eighteen years of experience in AM and has educated over one thousand scientists and engineers in the areas of meals AM technology, processes, and advanced applications. He has published...

Dr. Mike Vasquez usually the host of this podcast and is the founder of two 3D Printing companies. He started his first company, 3 Degrees, in 2013 and since then has helped both global companies and family-run businesses navigate the challenges and opportunities of 3D Printing. In talking with hundreds of companies, he kept seeing a need for a tracking software customized to this space. He couldn...

Melissa Orme, PhD belongs to that small group of engineers who have participated ‘hands-on’ in the field of Additive Manufacturing before the term or even the industry of “Additive Manufacturing” existed. Her career has been divided between academia and small business. On the academic front, she worked as a Professor at UCI for twelve years, After rising to full Professor, Melissa relinquished her...

Valeria Tirelli is the President and CEO of her family’s manufacturing company Aidro Hydraulics. Aidro's main activities are design, production, and testing of hydraulic components produced in conventional manufacturing and in 3D printing. Aidro is a pioneer in the use of Metal Additive Manufacturing in Fluid Power, Oil & Gas, Mobile Machinery, Aerospace and Industrial applications. She joins the...

Stephanie Brickwede is the Managing Director of Mobility goes Additive and Head of Additive Manufacturing at Deutche Bahn. She has overseen the adoption of 3D Printing throughout a number of applications and technologies within the transportation system. We have a great conversation about the best practices in identifying use cases for AM within a large organization and the bumps that inevitably o...

Ashley Totin is a Senior Project Engineer for America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Ashley received her BE and MSE in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Youngstown State University. Previously as a Engineering Project Manager at the Youngstown Business Incubator, her work focused on analyzing business models for the use of additive manufacturing for aerospac...

Bob is the Executive Vice President at Addman Engineering but as a testament to the speed at which things change in the Additive Manufacturing industry, at the time of this recording that news was not public so he was speaking on behalf of 3rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing. Bob has an amazing story of perseverance, hard work, and dedication building his own 3D Printing shop in the Indianapolis...

This episode of the 3Degrees Discussions Podcast was recorded live at the 2021 Additive Manufacturing Users Group in Orlando, FL. Guests include: Len Wagner -- Impossible Objects Adam Penna -- All Digital Additive Manufacturing Theodore Lee -- Made in Space Bob Diaz -- College of Southern Nevada Greg Dudder - Hummingbird Additive Dan Brunermer - ExOne Maddie Frank - 3Degrees Melanie Lang - Formall...

That was Maciej Jakucki. Maciej is the medical device testing manager for Element Materials. Element is one of the world leaders in material qualification and product testing. He joins the show today to talk about the ways the Element and their customers are approaching validation of 3D Printing processes, especially in the medical space. Head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the p...

Pete Zelinski and Stefanie Hendrixson are responsible for some of the most in depth and nuanced coverage of the Additive Manufacturing industry through their Cool Parts Show and Additive Manufacturing Media. They join the show today to talk about the evolution of the 3D Printing industry and some of the trends they are seeing in the space. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com...

Brandon Lamoncha is the head of Additive Manufacturing at Humtown Products in Columbiana, Ohio. Humtown is a multigenerational family owned business that started as a pattern shop in 1959. They have a history of making patterns from CNC as well as sand cores and molds for the foundry industry. Over the past several years Humtown has adopted and grown their Additive Manufacturing capabilities and e...

Paul Gradl is a senior propulsion engineer in the Combustion Devices Design and Development Branch at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He leads the manufacturing, design, development, and testing of nozzles and nozzle extensions. For over a decade, he has supported a variety of nozzle development and flight programs, and has been involved in technology development supporting the manufacturing an...

Yash Bandari is an Additive Manufacturing Product Manager at Meltio. Yash has over 10 years of experience with directed energy deposition 3D Printing processes having had the opportunity to work with all three heat sources including arc, laser, and electron beam. Meltio is an AM machine manufacturer focused on DED offering a solution that can use either or both wire and powder feedstock. As you co...

Javier Ramos is a Co-Founder and the Director of Hardware at Inkbit. He leads systems and technology development activities and previously worked at Rethink Robotics and Leaf. Inkbit was spun out of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in 2017. They have built the first 3D printer driven by vision-based feedback control and earlier this year announced their fi...