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SUMMARY:Scalability and Flexibility: Key Principles for Advanced Manufactu
 ring Research and Education - Prof John Hart\, Associate Professor of Mech
 anical Engineering\, MIT
DTSTART:20160429T130000Z
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CONTACT:Ella Davey
DESCRIPTION:Advances in automation\, computation\, and global connectivity
  are enabling us to scale-up new products more quickly\, and to accelerate
  the translation of new materials and processes to applications. In the co
 ming years\, continued population growth and resource pressures will drive
  compound interest in additive manufacturing for local and customized prod
 uction\, and in printed electronics for ubiquitous sensing\, among other t
 echnologies. I believe these dynamics present important opportunities to p
 erform fundamental yet practical research in emerging manufacturing proces
 ses\, and to accelerate innovation via hands-on education. First\, I will 
 highlight two new and ongoing research projects in my group: relief printi
 ng of electronic inks using nanoporous stamps\, which demonstrate 10-fold 
 improved resolution over industrial flexography\; and extrusion-based 3D p
 rinting at 10-fold greater throughput than current equipment. Second\, I w
 ill describe our effort to create an open digital course on manufacturing 
 processes which is based on the MIT core undergraduate manufacturing class
  (2.008)\, and will reflect on experiences teaching additive manufacturing
  to graduate students and industry audiences.
LOCATION:Institute for Manufacturing\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge
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