ASME Public Policy Webinar to Focus on Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives

ASME Public Policy Webinar to Focus on Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives ASME Public Policy Webinar to Focus on Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives ASME Public Policy Webinar to Focus on Advanced Manufacturing InitiativesGloria Wiens, PhD.ASME Government Relations will conduct a special public policy webinar on July 15, Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives for Americas Future, featuring Gloria Wiens, PhD, the assistant director for research partnerships at the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office and the current ASME Foundation Swanson Fellow. The free webinar, to be held from noon to 100 p.m. Eastern Time, will provide viewers with a briefing on the game-changing federal government initiatives, public-private partnerships, and opportunities in advanced manufacturing, with a focus on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation and the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership recommendations detailed in their report, Accelerating U.S. Advanced Manufacturing. Dr. Wiens has bee n serving as an ASME Foundation Swanson Fellow since September 2013. She is an associate professor and the director of the Space, Automation, and Manufacturing Mechanisms (SAMM) Laboratory at the University of Florida in Gainesville. zu sich research interests include robotics spatial mechanisms system dynamics and controls with applications in space reconfigurable micro/small satellite deployable systems automation MEMS/biomedical devices and micro/mesoscale manipulation and manufacturing. Her teaching focuses on dynamics and controls of robotic systems kinematics and dynamics of machinery and vibrations and controls. For more information on the webinar, visit the ASME Public Policy Education Center at http//ppec.asme.org. To register for the webinar, visit https//engage.vevent.com/rt/asmeadvancedmanufacturingpartnership.