Seminar: A Scenario for the Future of Manufacturing in the US

Dr. Marc Madou, University of California, Irvine

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E001 Scott Lab
E001 Scott Lab
201 W. 19th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
United States

Abstract:

Countries that are not manufacturing high technology goods anymore are increasingly at a disadvantage, because they do not gain the required experience from meeting the newest manufacturing challenges in the production of the latest high tech products. In other words, the loss of the manufacturing base is not a simple linear loss, it becomes irretrievable exponential as times goes on. History has shown that it is the manufacturing capability that drives the economical growth and creates wealth. Assuming that we can still market and design new products without manufacturing excellence is naïve; one cannot design without knowing the latest materials and manufacturing processes.” In this talk we address a scenario that might reverse this trend.

Manufacturing technology today may be compared to computer technology 40 years ago, epitomized by large, centralized “mainframe” facilities. The proposed redesign of manufacturing intends to emulate the transformation from the mainframe to networked PCs by migrating from centralized factories to distributed, networked Desktop-Integrated Manufacturing Platforms or DIMPS. Although logical and physical computer design and construction have advanced from breadboard prototypes to well-defined algorithmic fundamentals, even the most advanced manufacturing systems are still synthesized on an ad hoc basis. To emulate this computer design paradigm, we aim to develop analogous algorithmic principles for desktop integrated manufacturing systems (DIMPs).

About the Speaker:

Before joining UCI as the Chancellor’s Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEA), Dr. Madou was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Nanogen in San Diego, California.  He specializes in the application of miniaturization technology to chemical and biological problems (BIO-MEMS).  He is the author of several books in this burgeoning field he helped pioneer both in Academia and in Industry.  He founded several micromachining companies and has been on the board of many more.  

Madou was the founder of the SRI International’s Microsensor Department, founder and President of Teknekron Sensor Development Corporation (TSDC), Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley and Endowed Chair at the Ohio State University (Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering). The third edition of  “Fundamentals of Microfabrication,” an introduction to MEMS and NEMS, which has become known as the “bible” of micromachining, was published in July of last year (http://fundamentalsofmicrofabrication.wordpress.com/). Dr. Madou currently leads UCI’s efforts in Advanced Manufacturing and in Educational Outreach in Advanced Manufacturing.

Some of Dr. Madou’s recent research work involves artificial muscle for responsive drug delivery, a compact disc-based fluidic platform and carbon MEMS, the two latter fields were pioneered by Dr. Madou. At UCI Dr. Madou works on carbon-MEMS, a CD based fluidic platform, artificial muscle for responsive drug delivery and integrating fluidics with DNA arrays as well as researching label–free assays for the Molecular Diagnostics platform of the future.  

Hosted by Professor Shaurya Prakash