MME professors among panelists at industry-leading forum on additive manufacturing

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Two Waterloo Engineering professors are panelists at this year’s RAPID Canada Conference taking place this week in Mississauga.

Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, and Ehsan Toyserkani, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, are participating in the conference, an industry-leading forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest developments, trends and techniques specific to additive manufacturing, rapid technologies, and 3D printing.

Sullivan, also a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, will be part of the Migrating Additive Manufacturing to the Mainstream panel,

Pearl Sullivan
along with Francois Richard, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Chair of the Canadian ISO Committee for Additive Manufacturing, and Mathieu Brochu, a McGill University professor. Chaired by Peter Warrian of the Innovation Policy Lab of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, the panel will discuss how university-industry collaboration works to speed up the development and adoption of additive manufacturing technologies for various industries in Canada.

Toyserkani is a member of a panel that will discuss the topic entitled

Eshan Toyserkani
Medical Additive Manufacturing – The Canadian Conundrum. The other panelists include Gordon Campbell, senior research officer with the National Research Council of Canada, Martin Petrak, founder of the Orthopaedic Innovation Centre,  Rita Kandel, a clinician-scientist and chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and Norman Kwan, founder and chief scientific officer of Biomedical Implant Technology in St. Catharines.

Toyserkani, an expert in multi-scale additive manufacturing technologies and their applications to engineering and medicine, is the director of Waterloo Engineering’s Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Laboratory and a member of several advisory committees on advanced manufacturing.

Along with participating as a panelist for RAPID Canada Conference, Toyserkani is an advisory board member for the conference.

This year RAPID Canada Conference has been merged with the Canadian Manufacturing and Technology Show attracting more than 1000 participants,” said Toyserkani. “This event provides unique opportunity for participants to learn about the current state, trends, future potential, limitations and RD requirements for additive manufacturing technologies.”

First introduced in 2014, the conference is part of the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show. The country’s largest manufacturing event is expected to attract about 10,000 manufacturing professionals from across the country and around the world.