Presentation: We Could Print It If We Could CAD It

SPEAKER: Mary Baker, Architect Computational Design for Additive at HP Inc.

HELD: Monday, December 14, 2021, 6:00PM PT (Pacific Timezone)
Webinar available on Youtube (click on image):

 

ABSTRACT: Additive Manufacturing is an important part of Industry 4.0. Industrial 3D printing gives us the ability to create critical parts locally on demand and to democratize manufacturing in new communities. So what is holding us back? One of the problems is that although we can print it, we can’t design it. Industrial 3D printers are now capable of printing highly complex parts, but traditional manufacturing design software is not capable of creating the necessary digital models.

In this talk I’ll describe an industrial 3D print process and some of the many computationally interesting parts we can create with it. I’ll explain how our journey to design these parts has moved us from using traditional CAD (Computer Aided Design) software to writing our own software in platforms intended for the special effects industry, game designers, and animators. I’ll also highlight some of the many remaining software and computational design problems still awaiting solutions. Finally, I’ll display a variety of exotic printed parts including mathematical jewelry, very fine screens used for manufacturing sustainable packaging, musical instruments, and solutions for keeping ants out of the food scrap bin in your kitchen.

 

SPEAKER: Mary Baker is an Architect in Computational Design for Additive at HP Inc. in Palo Alto. Her research has covered a broad range of areas including mobile systems and applications, physical affordances for IoT privacy, digital preservation, authentication, and design and workflows for additive manufacturing. Before joining HP in 2003 she was on the faculty of the computer science department at Stanford University where she led the MosquitoNet and Mobile People Architecture projects and graduated 7 Ph.D. students. She has received a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an Okawa Foundation Grant, and an NSF CAREER Award. She is an ACM Distinguished Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a founding member of the editorial board for IEEE Pervasive Computing, and a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group.

This talk is part of our series of presentations by industry experts at the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section Corporate Liaison Program (CLP). If you have ideas for future speakers, please email the SCV CLP Chair.