NAMII Holds Meetings, Names Deputy Directors
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute today is holding the second day of its two-day project management review and kickoff meetings for NAMII members. The event, which is closed to the press, is being hosted by Youngstown State University at the Williamson College of Business Administration conference center auditorium.
The meetings are “an accumulation of historic ‘firsts’ for NAMII, representing all the effort and collaboration by our team and members since our official award seven months ago,” said Ed Morris, NAMII director and vice president of the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining.
“Our initial program management review and project kickoff meetings demonstrate significant and quantifiable achievements we have attained,” he continued. “Moreover, the convening of these meetings underscores the fact that NAMII is advancing on the path toward sustainability and accelerating the integration of additive manufacturing into the mainstream U.S. manufacturing sector.”
As part of the program management review meeting, NAMII will officially welcome and recognize current members as a result of the first open membership call announced n November.
The NAMII meeting taking place today will include presentations by the recently awarded project teams to familiarize all NAMII members with the objectives, scope, and anticipated outcomes of the projects. The seven NAMII-selected projects span a variety of metals and polymeric additive manufacturing processes and materials with near-term technical achievements impacting multiple key markets within a few months, officials say.
NAMII this week announcedit will retain Darrell R. Wallace as deputy director of workforce and educational outreach. Wallace, the founding director of advanced manufacturing workforce initiatives at YSU, had been serving NAMII in an interim capacity. In June, Wallace, who has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in industrial engineering, will take a leave of absence from YSU to focus on NAMII.
NAMII also named Rob Gorham as deputy director of technology development, Daniel J. Maas as deputy director of advanced manufacturing enterprise, and William Macy as deputy director of technology transition.
“On behalf of all of us at NAMII, I want to officially congratulate and extend a warm welcome to Rob, Dan, and Bill,” Morris said in a prepared statement. “We are also grateful to Darrell for continuing to lead NAMII’s workforce and education outreach activities. In appointing this group of permanent NAMII deputy directors, we have solidified NAMII’s leadership infrastructure. The breadth of additive, manufacturing, engineering and business management experience Rob, Dan, Bill and Darrell bring to each of NAMII’s thrust areas of technology development, technology transition, advanced manufacturing enterprise, and education/workforce outreach will be instrumental to NAMII’s success and sustainability.”
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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