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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Computational Design and Fabrication of Structur
 es and Robots
DTSTART:20181009T121500
DTEND:20181009T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kristina Shea\, Engineering Design and Computing Laborat
 ory\, Institute of Design\, Materials and Fabrication\, ETH Zürich\nAbstr
 act:\nThe recent rise in digital fabrication\, including 3D and 4D printin
 g\, may be the best thing that has ever happened to the area of computatio
 nal design. For years we have been developing new algorithms and methods f
 or automatically generating and optimizing designs considering large\, com
 plex solution spaces. Today\, designers struggle with just this\, to desig
 n parts\, structures and systems that take full advantage of the complex s
 hapes and material combinations that are now possible through 3D printing.
  4D printing extends on this to include the time dimension. This enables 3
 D printed designs to reconfigure themselves in time and provide locomotion
 . Highlights of our research on novel methods for automatically generating
 \, simulating\, and optimizing structural and robotic systems are presente
 d with potential applications in the manufacturing\, robotics and biomedic
 al industries.\n\nBio:\nKristina Shea is Full Professor for Engineering De
 sign and Computing in Mechanical and Processing Engineering at ETH Zürich
  since 2012. Her research focuses on developing cutting-edge computational
  models\, methods and tools that enable the design of more novel and optim
 ized engineered systems and products as well as to automate design and fab
 rication processes. Currently her research group focuses on new computatio
 nal design methods for 3D and 4D printing as well as computational design 
 synthesis and optimization methods. Application areas include structures\,
  robotics\, biomedical and buildings. She graduated in Mechanical Engineer
 ing (BS 1993\; MS 1995\; PhD 1997) from Carnegie Mellon University (US). S
 he has held academic positions at EPFL\, University of Cambridge (UK) and 
 TU München (Germany) and worked as a Senior Engineer at Arup (London\, UK
 ). She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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