The 4D printing technology is defined as “3D printing plus time” and it allows a 3D-printed structure to change its shape and configuration over time to respond to external stimuli. Recently, transdisciplinary 4D printing research involves studies on smart materials, 3D printing technology, and transformation behaviors. Numerous studies have been conducted on 4D printing and smart materials and have invented novel ways to print with these materials. There are significant smart material research works related to shape-memory alloys as well as shape-memory polymers. Also, there are several highlighted applications of smart material products. This workshop will include panelist presentations and discussions on information models and repositories, design processes, 4D printing processes, and materials.

This panel session will open a venue for researchers and practitioners in 4D printing and share different perspectives on this emerging technology and the industrial transition. The invited panelists will share their insights regarding the following questions.
• What are the potential industrial applications of 4D printed design?
• How to scale up the 4D printing design for industrial or real-world applications?
• What are the challenges or bottlenecks in 4D Printing research? For example, how can we discover more types of stimuli?
• How can idea generation and conceptual design processes with 4D printing be supported? For example, can visualization support be made during the conceptual design?
• How can the knowledge from 4D printing research be shared with designers?
• What are the roles of intelligence in 4D printed design, artifacts, and application?

Name of panelist:Prof. Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim

Kyoung-Yun Kim is a professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, where he directs the Computational Intelligence and Design Informatics (CInDI) Laboratory. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on design science; design informatics; semantic assembly design; welding and joining; and smart manufacturing. He has received external funding from federal agencies including NSF, NIST, DMDII, NIDRR, VA-CASE, DOD, and DOE, and several industry partners. He is the Director of the Smart Manufacturing Demonstration Center (SMDC) and a Site Director for the NSF Industry and University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design. Dr. Kim is a Fellow of the Society of Design and Process Science and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. He received the top-cited article award (2005-2010) from Journal CAD and the 2003 IIE Transactions Best Paper Award. One of his articles was selected as Classics in Manufacturing and Machinery by Google Scholar. Dr. Kim served as the General Chair of FAIM 2022 (31st International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing) and the conference theme was Human-Data-Technology Nexus in Intelligent Manufacturing and Next Generation Automation. Dr. Kim was an invited professor at Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France, in 2017 and was a visiting professor at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in 2014.

Name of panelist:Prof. Dr. Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Dr. Yaoyao Fiona Zhao is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Since Dr. Zhao joined McGill University in 2012, she has established the Additive Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (ADML) which is one of the leading research laboratories in additive manufacturing field. Her research expertise lies in the general field of design and manufacturing including the exploration of new design methods, developing efficient numerical simulation method for additive manufacturing processes, manufacturing informatics, application of machine learning in design and manufacturing, sustainable product development and intelligent manufacturing. Dr. Zhao is currently the associate editor for the Journal of Mechanical Design and the Applied Mechanics Reviews Journal. She has received multiple Best/Outstanding paper awards in major design and manufacturing journals and conferences. Other major awards she received include the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Accelerator Supplement award in 2018, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design “Associate Editor Award” in 2019 and 2020.

Name of panelist:Dr. David Mélançon

David Mélançon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal and a member of the Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard University under the supervision of Professor Katia Bertoldi. Prior to joining Polytechnique Montreal, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. His research seeks to embody mechanical intelligence in engineering systems by folding, cutting, snapping, buckling, and inflating matter. He models and fabricates tunable mechanical metamaterials, instability-driven soft robots, and large-scale deployable structures. His research is multidisciplinary and spans different domains including engineering, numerical methods, architecture, design, and art.

Name of panelist:Dr. Irina Garces

Dr. Irina Garces obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, she specialized in composite-smart materials such as bio, multifunctional nanomaterials, and additive manufacturing of shape memory composites, nanocomposites and multi-materials parts. Her work included developing, modelling, and manufacturing additive-manufactured shape memory polymers for field applications. She designed a manufacturing method, developed viscoelastic models to predict the behavior of complex polymers, and produced self-sensing actuators. She has designed and built various polymer processing equipment and mechatronic systems, such as spinning, winding and extrusion equipment. She has also contributed to the development of additive manufacturing of biomedical and robotics’ parts. She has developed processing and manufacturing techniques for diverse materials such as commercial polymers, cellulose-based materials, and carbon fibers. Some of her most recent work includes developing new additive manufacturing systems for processing regenerated cellulose to produce bio-based parts.

Name of panelist:Mr. Claas Eicke Kuhnen, MFA

Claas Eicke Kuhnen is a German 3D designer with a strong interdisciplinary education in product, space, and animation design. He received his undergraduate degree in Color Design for Product and Graphic Design from the University of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim, Germany and his Masters in Fine Arts in 3D Studio Art with a focus in Jewelry Design and Animation from Bowling Green State University. As a designer, Claas has an interest in design-informed solutions and the relationship between consumerism, products, and their impact on society. Projects he works on include furniture, interior/exhibit, consumer and medical product design. In his research and studio practice, he investigates the application of a modern multi-application/discipline workflow that includes topics such as parametric, generative, and subdivision surface modeling, AR VR, photogrammetry, and artificial intelligence-powered tools and collaborates with various national and international university and companies on research and design projects. His teaching and classroom experience is very much influenced by his research diversity providing his students with an exceptionally modern, interdisciplinary, and competitive education.

Name of panelist:Prof. Dr. Raffaele de Amicis

Raffaele De Amicis is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Oregon State University. He has authored 3 books, contributed to 23 scientific journal papers, and is the author or co-author of more than 177 scientific peer reviewed conference papers. Dr. De Amicis has been the Project Coordinator of several multidisciplinary research projects contracted or funded by the European Commission, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, governmental agencies, and industry with an overall budget of >52 million dollars. Since in the USA, his research has been funded through research programs sponsored by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Security Agency, Booz Allen Hamilton, Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center, and Oregon State University. Dr. De Amicis received his Ph.D. in Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. From 1999 until December 2002, he was a research fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany and senior researcher at the at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before arriving at OSU, he was the founding Director of GraphiTech, Center for Advanced Computer Graphics Technologies in Trento, Italy, where he was recognized for leadership in science, technology, and innovation. Between 2003-2016, acting as a consulting professor, he has educated and mentored diverse groups of learners, from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds, principally in the undergraduate and graduate courses at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science and at the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento. From 2010 to 2016, he has been the Vice-President of the Board of Directors at GraphicsMedia.net - International Network for the Cooperation in Applied Research in Computer Graphics, Multimodal and Multimedia Technologies, and Visual Interactive Digital Media Technologies, where he has developed strong competencies in how to build and manage successful multinational organizations. In this context, he has established strong linkages to diverse Academic and Research Institutes, both at the national and international levels.