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ICSAE 2016 welcomed two leading engineers, whose keynote lectures spanned microsystems and 3D printing for medical devices.

Portrait of Professor Masayoshi Esashi
Keynote one

“Microsystems by Heterogeneous Integration”

Professor Masayoshi Esashi

Micro System Integration Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Biography

Masayoshi Esashi (born 30 January 1949 in Sendai, Miyagi) is an engineer and a global authority on microelectromechanical systems. He serves as professor of the Tohoku University graduate school of engineering.

He received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering in 1971 and the Doctor of Engineering degree in 1976 at Tohoku University. He served as a research associate from 1976 and an associate professor from 1981 at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the World Premier International Research Center Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI AIMR). He is now professor and director of the Micro System Integration Center, concurrently at WPI AIMR and at the Center of Innovation in Tohoku University.

He was a director of the Venture Business Laboratory in Tohoku University from 1995 to 1998, a president of the Sensor and Micromachine Society in the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan from 2002 to 2003, a president of the Japan Society of Next Generation Sensor Technology from 2010 to 2015, and a chairman of the MEMS Park Consortium in Sendai from 2004.

He served as general cochair of the 4th IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Workshop in 1991 held in Nara, Japan, as general chair of the 10th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers 99) in 1999 held in Sendai, Japan, and as Technical Programme Chair of IEEE Sensors 2006 held in Daegu, Korea.

Awards

  • SSDM Award (2001)
  • Purple Ribbon award (2006)
  • IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award (2015)
  • IEEE Jun ichi Nishizawa Award (2016)

Speech overview

Microsystems, or MEMS, are fabricated using semiconductor technology and applied as value added components for advanced systems. Our activities in MEMS development and commercialisation began 45 years ago. MEMS transferred onto CMOS LSI (heterogeneous integration) have been developed for future advanced systems such as multiband wireless systems, tactile sensor networks for safe nursing robots, massive parallel electron beam lithography systems and others. Cost effective development is required for microsystems because they are versatile and not standardised.

Portrait of Professor Kenneth Dalgarno
Keynote two

“Printing Cells and Medical Devices”

Professor Kenneth Dalgarno

Sir James Woodeson Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Biography

Kenny Dalgarno is Sir James Woodeson Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at Newcastle University. He is:

  • Deputy Director of the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre.
  • Deputy Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacture in Medical Devices.
  • Coordinator of the FP7 RESTORATION project.
  • The Newcastle University lead investigator for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Additive Manufacture and 3D Printing.

For more than a decade he has researched additive manufacture, with applications in rapid prototyping and manufacturing and in polymer engineering, and with an increasing emphasis on applications in biomedical engineering, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This work has been supported by the EPSRC, the European Commission, Arthritis Research UK, the Carbon Trust and industry.

Speech overview

3D printing is a term that covers a range of new manufacturing processes, all of which deposit materials layer by layer. 3D printing can be well suited to making single and customised components, and has increasingly been adopted to make personalised medical components. The presentation gave an overview of how 3D printing techniques are being used to create new bioactive medical devices, and how 3D bioprinting might be used in the future to create high throughput cell assays and micro tissues for drug screening and patient stratification.

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