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Emanuel M. Sachs
Professor Emanuel Sachs is the Chief Technical officer of 1366 Technologies Inc, a company he founded together with Frank van Mierlo. Before joining 1366, Professor Sachs was the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT where he specialized in the design of manufacturing processes. Professor Sachs co-invented Three Dimensional Printing, a manufacturing process for the creation of 3D parts directly from a computer model in layers. 3D Printing is being commercialized in fields-of-use including appearance models, ceramic molds for castings, direct metal tooling, end-use metal parts, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Together with co-workers, Professor Sachs was awarded an R&D 100 award in 1994 for his work on 3D Printing. Professor Sachs is also known for work in the area of Process Control of VLSI fabrication and is a co-inventor of a plasma etch diagnostic tool now commercially available. Professor Sachs is the author or co-author of more than 110 technical papers and is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 40 patents. Professor Sachs was awarded the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in Mechanical Engineering and all from MIT, in 1975, 1976, and 1983, respectively.
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Frank van Mierlo
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