AMUG Celebrates 30 Years of Additive Manufacturing Education and Support

The additive manufacturing conference will include more than 200 presentations, workshops and hands-on training sessions.

By Jamie Gooch

· March 29, 2018

Additive Manufacturers Users Group

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference is celebrating its 30th anniversary as the “for users, by users” event that focuses on AM users coming together to educate and support each other. It will take place April 8-12 in St. Louis, MO.

“We have a very strong presentation lineup, and perhaps the greatest topic-specific agenda of any prior conference,” state Paul Bates, AMUG president, via a press release. “Our attendees are in for some fantastic information transfer. And that transfer will be started with two powerful keynote presentations. Our agenda committee selected Dominik Rietzel and Todd Grimm for the insights they will provide and the tone that they will set for the balance of the conference.”

BMW Group’s Dr. Ing. Dominik Rietzel (left) and Todd Grimm. Images courtesy of AMUG.

AMUG Scholarship Winners Announced

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has awarded two scholarships: one to an educator and one to a student.

Emrah Celik, Ph.D., an assistant professor of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami (UM), has been awarded the Randy Stevens Scholarship. Daniel Delgado Camacho, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Structural Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), has been awarded the Guy E. Bourdeau Scholarship.

Dr. Celik and Mr. Delgado Camacho will join other AM users at the AMUG Conference.

Learn more here.

Rietzel is head of BMW Group’s Additive Manufacturing Center (Non-Metal). His presentation “Additive Manufacturing on the Road. A Journey from Prototyping to Production” represents his experiences as BMW Group expanded its use of additive manufacturing from prototyping. In recent years, BMW has invested in a number of AM startups, including Desktop Metal and Carbon, and uses 3D printing to enable mass customization.

Todd Grimm, president of T. A. Grimm & Associates, is AMUG’s AM industry advisor. In his eighth appearance as an AMUG keynote speaker, Grimm will present “Light at the End of the Tunnel.” The presentation will include industry updates with Grimm’s observations on what he sees as a shift in expectations and attitudes in the AM industry.

Other AMUG highlights include the Innovators Showcase, the Global AM Review and the AMUG Technical Competition. The Innovators Showcase brings AM leaders on stage for an open conversation. As DE reported, Fried Vancraen, founder and CEO of Materialise, is the 2018 guest of honor. The Global AM Review provides an international AM industry update. The AMUG Technical Competition allows users of additive manufacturing technologies to display their applications and finishing capabilities in a forum that will be judged by a panel of experts.

The conference will also include more than 200 presentations, workshops and hands-on training sessions, according to AMUG.

For more information, visit the AMUG Conference site.

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Jamie Gooch

Jamie Gooch is the former editorial director of Digital Engineering.

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