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I credit my fascination with space from an early age, my enjoyment of math and science, and affinity to the arts as the driving factor to becoming an engineer. My desire to pursue a career that would hone technical skills but allow my creative side to flourish led to aerospace engineering, and eventually to 3D printing. As a co-founder of a startup, the job is successfully executing a little of everything. From helping develop the product roadmap and completing R&D projects, to communications, to helping recruit and fundraise, to acquiring new customers, and to facilitating business relationships, I find myself drawing on, and thankful for, every role I’ve held over the prior 15+ years in the aerospace and defense industry. The journey of becoming a female engineer to entrepreneur has been an exciting and challenging journey, driven by passion and a hunger for adventure. The impact metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology is imparting on multiple industries to open the design space is incredible, including redefining what is possible with multiple materials, embedded sensors, and complex geometries. I look forward to sharing my personal story of the journey and technology developments, while it continues to unfold.
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The work reported here was a collaborative effort, and as such acknowledgement is due to others that contributed to the experimental work and/or critical discussions outside of those already called out in the text. This includes researchers at FormAlloy Technologies, Inc. (Mr. Jeff Riemann), Relativity Space (Mr. Sam Tonneslan), Trumpf (Dr. Eliana Fu), University of California San Diego (Dr. Kenneth Vecchio), and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Dr. Paul Gradl). The views expressed here are those of the author’s and do not reflect the official policy or position of FormAlloy Technologies, Inc. or any of its customers, suppliers, and collaborators.
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Lang, M.A. (2021). Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Metal Additive Manufacturing. In: DelVecchio, S.M. (eds) Women in 3D Printing. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70736-1_8
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