The MIT Enterprise Forum on Advanced Manufacturing.
Why Should You Care and Attend.
No matter what you do for a living, manufacturing in the United State’s affects your livelihood and your disposable income. It affects the price of everything you purchase and use from gas to cell phones and from food to furnaces.
If you want to know the how and the why, then you need to attend on January 17.
For years we have been losing manufacturing jobs overseas and this has affected all our financial well beings as well as our economy and our country’s work force. Continuing to rebuild America’s economy is one of the primary goals of our government.
Adding more manufacturing jobs will be a key part of our economic recovery which means more employed people to spend more money on your goods and services.
We have assembled some of the country’s top decision makers to explain how this affects all of us. Currently, MIT’s own President, Susan Hockfield has been involved in President Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Program to rebuild America.
See video of event held at MIT on how Washington and MIT are trying to rebuild America.
Join us on January 17th to find out this directly affects us and how manufacturers locally are using advanced manufacturing processes to expand their capabilities and employee a new manufacturing workforce.
MODERATOR
Moderator Mike Johnston, Director of Business Development for IL MEP Network
Mike has extensive manufacturing process and leadership experience. After receiving a BS in Chemistry from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, he began his career with GE as a manufacturing engineer. Since joining the MEP Network, Mike has provided Operational and Strategic consulting and coaching to a number of mid-market manufacturing companies in the Midwest. Mike has also provided coaching in management team building and corporate culture development.
PANEL
Guy Cassidy, Chief Operating Officer, Acme Industries
Guy is COO of Acme Industries, a privately owned manufacturer of large and complex precision-machined components for oil and gas, mining, rail and industrial equipment. Prior to Acme, Guy was President and CEO of Holley Performance Products, a company supplying engine component systems for the automotive aftermarket, and emission control systems for diesel engines. He began his career as a development engineer for Allied-Signal. He earned a MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California-Davis.
Karen Huber is the Division Manager for ManufacturingTechnology R&D at Caterpillar Inc.
Karen has dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Welding Engineering from Millikin University in Decatur, IL. She has been at Caterpillar Inc. for 34 years. For the past 11 years, Karen has been focused on manufacturing process research, and incorporating new technologies into product development programs and operations facilities.
Karen and her team represent Caterpillar Inc. on several external international forums.
Greg Olson is Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
He directs the Materials Technology Laboratory/Steel Research Group, and founded QuesTek Innovations LLC, a materials design company that was selected for Fortune magazine’s list of the 25 breakthrough companies of 2005. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of ASM and TMS-AIME. He has authored more than 250 publications. He received a BS and MS in 1970 and ScD in 1974 in materials science from MIT and remained there in a series of senior research positions before joining the faculty of Northwestern in 1988. Beyond materials design, his research interests include phase transformations, structure/property relations, and applications of high resolution microanalysis. Recent awards include the ASM Campbell Memorial Lectureship, the TMS-SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, the Cambridge University Kelly Lectureship, and the ASM Gold Medal.
Harry Moser, Founder & President, The Reshoring Initiative
Harry founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. by helping OEMs better understand the full cost of offshoring and the benefits of reshoring. Harry was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010. Harry is on the board of NIMS (credentials for skilled manufacturing) and is President of SMTS (Swiss Machine Tool Society). He received a BS in ME and an MS in Engineering at MIT in 1967 and an MBA from U. of Chicago in 1981.
Time: 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Cocktails and appetizers from 5:30-6:30 program begins at 6:30
Location IBM Innovation Center - 71 S Wacker, Chicago, IL 60606
Fee: $10 for members in advance $20 at the door
$35 for non-members in advance $40 at the door