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Overview

Research how it relates to the native community
What is it? Technologies
3D printing and advancing research/Rapid Prototyping
CAD Modeling work
Reverse-engineering / gradient work
Materials advancements/ Bio compatibility/Sterilization practices
Seeing where/how it can be utilized

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Tribal Relations an Advanced Manufacturing

I work for Cankdeska Cikana Community College on the Spirit Lake nation, I have close ties to Turtle Mountain community college and Sitting bull community college.

Along with being on the editorial council for AIHECs winds of change STEM/engineering magazine.
Worked for Virtual indigenous data sovereignty (VIDS) group managing the summer institutes day to day operations and mentoring for the participants of data analytics and the potential of incorporating virtual/augmented reality into the physical world.

AMSI- AIHEC program has been in operation for 7 years

It’s a consortium of Tribal universities that’s purpose is to push AM forward.
ACE- Americas Cutting Edge manufacturing consortium.

PEEC- Program supporting TCU engineering departments
Work with ND-Epscor advancing their research with AM.

Creating cellular well plating
Fabricating Spinning Bioreactors
Doing CFD work to shape delivery systems for cell media
Assisting with scaffold formation to mimic microenvironments including resent work with Osteosarcoma.

Work with REU/INMED/UND

Direct work with MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer
Creating devices to do cell migration assays

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Advanced Manufacturing� Additive Manufacturing

What Is it?

It’s the opposite of Subtractive manufacturing.
Slicing away at an oversized shape to “find” your part, like a sculptor chiseling marble to make a statue.

You build in a lamination style of construction.

Think Layers, “stacking” material to build up a part.

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End Goal=

Advanced Manufacturing

Subtractive Manufacturing

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Computer Assisted Designing/Manufacturing

CAD-Design in the third dimension.

Stereolithography files (STL)
Use this in Augmented reality and virtual reality.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Total part count reduction/combining multiple features into one component
Structural Optimization into topology optimization

CAM-Tooling paths in three dimensions

g-code
Allows machinery to move properly to tool part.
Incredible accuracy.
Consistency with Repeatability
Customization

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Reverse Engineering / Design Intent

Using Scanning light or laser systems to recreate something or use that information to create a customized part.

Orthotics that perfectly match a patcient
Amputees’ can have a customized limb holster.
Surgical guides
Dental-guides-implants-crowns-orthodontic work

Compiling multiple components into one.

Or make a part more flexible by segregating it.
Creating a castable mold to pour parts.

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Material advancements

PLA-PLAG used with FDM-filament deposition modeling
Stereolithography- Crosslinking photopolymers

Digital light projection
Masked SLA
Last 3 years 5 new biostable materials have come out.

Selective Laser Sintering

New affordable nylon systems
Powdered technologies that can handle complex geometry's without scaffolding.

Hydrogel systems

Soft scaffolds/matrixes
bone matrixes
Recreate collagen structures

Gradient work

Ability to blend multiple materials together to get properties of both in the end result.
Alloys
Polymer Blends
Feature of component 100% shift to a single material and back.

Prosthetic leg making the limb from nylon 12 but making the knee from nylon 11.

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Seeing where to use it?

Becomes an engineering and a materials question.
What is your goal? end use product or a functional prototype?
Do you need customization? Do you need it fast?
Does the device needed to complete the experiment exist?
Do you require tooling to help with the tasks at hand?
Adding internal channeling?
Needs to be lighter?
Thinner? Wider? Redesigned to fit into a certain spot for space saving?

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