| Topic: | Additive Manufacturing of Custom Assistive Devices for Smart Care Systems |
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| Speaker: | Prof Albert Shih Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| Date: | Thursday, 19 December 2019 |
| Time: | 3.00pm to 4.00pm |
| Venue: | Seminar Room EA-06-02 (Block EA, Level 6) NUS Faculty of Engineering (map of NUS can be found at http://map.nus.edu.sg/) |
| Host: | Prof Jerry Fuh |
Abstract
The quality of care in our aging society is a grand challenge and great opportunity for manufacturing research. Current care systems and devices need transformative changes to enable the precision medicine in treatment, diagnosis, and prevention. Manufacturing is a key, integral part of multi-disciplinary innovative solutions to transform our society. This talk focuses on one example of manufacturing research project – the cyber design and additive manufacturing custom ankle foot orthosis to demonstrate the healthcare needs and manufacturing solutions. The cyber design and additive manufacturing of personalized orthoses and prostheses at the University of Michigan’s Orthotics and Prosthetics Center is described based on the Aachen model of process, machine, system, and metrology. This is an active on-going research to create the next-generation assistive devices that can overcome challenges of the complex and dynamic interactions across the social, healthcare provider, and personal levels. The overlapping needs for reconfigurable, personalized, and socially adoptable assistive devices and smart care systems is an area that manufacturing research can make an impact to transform the quality of care in our society.
About the Speaker
Albert Shih is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from Purdue University in 1991 and was an advanced manufacturing process engineer at Cummins (1991-1998) and an Associate Professor at NC State University Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (1998-2002). He has been a faculty at the University of Michigan since 2003. In 2017, he was the Assistant Director of Education and Workforce in the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO) at Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Shih’s research area is in manufacturing. He is a pioneer in biomedical manufacturing, the application of manufacturing technologies to advance the safety, quality, efficiency and speed of healthcare service and biomedical science. He has 10 US patents, two textbooks, and authored or co-authored over 200 archival journal papers, 100 conference papers in manufacturing and biomedical sciences. Dr. Shih is the recipient the Fulbright Scholar, SME Taylor Medal in manufacturing research, ASME Milton Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal and Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph Teetor Educational Award, and Best Paper awards in ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing (ICFDM). Dr. Shih is the Editor of Procedia Manufacturing (Elsevier), President of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI) of SME, and Fellow of ASME, SME, and CIRP.