Material Matters 3DP Forum: Problem Solving

The theme for this meetup is "Problem Solving"! We have a great group of speakers lined up for you who will introduce their work and projects and share some stories that relate to this theme.

Sid Sandback (Sandback Technical Design Inc.)
Sid is the owner of Sandback Technical Design and has over 29 years of Design and Construction experience. For the past 18 years, he has been self‐employed and operating his design and project management service primarily for the forest industry. Thermal Oil Energy Systems have become a specialty for Sid and recently he has attained his certification for 4th Class Power Engineer status. Material handling and Mechanical Design are some of the many strong points in his tool box. Sid also has three multi‐million dollar Thermal Oil Energy Systems where he has had an onsite construction supervisory and project management role. Sid will be presenting on how to create a multi-axis solar tracker using an Arduino and 3D printed parts.

Sam Wadsworth (Aspect Biosystems Ltd.)
Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of Aspect Biosystems. Sam is a world leader in the field of human airway engineering and has published many peer-reviewed papers on related research. He completed his Ph.D. in respiratory cell biology in the UK before relocating to Vancouver in 2007 to work as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the UBC Centre for Heart + Lung Innovation at St. Paul' s Hospital. Since 2011 Sam has spearheaded inter-disciplinary, cross-Canada research projects to build living 3-Dimensional human airway tissues. In 2013 Sam co-founded Aspect Biosystems with Konrad Walus, Simon Beyer and Tamer Mohamed. Aspect is a tissue engineering company with proprietary 3D-bioprinting technology capable of fabricating a variety of physiologically-relevant human tissues. Aspect's technology has the potential to revolutionise the fields of pharmaceutical drug development, disease research, personalised and regenerative medicine by providing living human tissues on demand.

Matej Rodela (Tok Tok Furniture)
Matej Rodela is a media studies graduate from Slovenia who has spent a reasonable number of years working in the media. Tired of the old school mentality of his bosses, he dived into the world of design thinking and business. This led him to co-found a startup focused on designing and manufacturing wooden products that make sense. He has also successfully led a Kickstarter campaign and has since helped others in getting their fingers dirty in the crowd-funding world. Always in search of a new challenge, he moved to Vancouver with his Canadian wife.

Meet the Material Matters Research Team
Keith Doyle, Helene Day Fraser, Aaron Oussoren and Karen Byskov will present on "troubleshooting the ethics of digital manufacturing".

Find us in ECU Motion Capture Studio, 2nd Floor, North Building
There will be popcorn, coffee and tea as always! Please also bring a donation of $2 - $5 to support the continuation of these meetups.