User:Dan Meyer

Fab Lab Manager
Wanger Family Fab Lab
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
57th Street and Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637
www.msichicago.org/whats-here/fab-lab/

Who Am I?:
By education and experience I am a Manufacturing Technologist, Designer, Engineer, Machinist, Welder. Beyond that you'll have to get to know me to find out :)

Short Introduction:
I worked for a long time in the wonderful, but tough manufacturing and metal casting industries inventing, designing, building and making stuff. In these industries I taught as much as I knew to others and learned as much as I could from others. Now I'm teaching the amazingness of old and new school manufacturing techniques to anyone interested. I am learning as many skills as anyone will teach me, especially with my involvement with The Museum of Science and Industry Wanger Family Fab Lab as well as a local hacker space Pumping Station: One. Recently I've been enjoying the personal manufacturing revolution and can't wait to see what the future of designing and making stuff is going to be like.

Employment:
The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Fab Lab Manager, 2011 - present
The North American Die Casting Association
Design Engineer, 2007 - 2011
Peerless Industries
Product Design Engineer, 2006 - 2007
ADC Die Casting & Manufacturing, L.P.
Manufacturing & Project Engineer, 2005 - 2006
Acme Die Casting
Manufacturing Engineer, 2003 - 2005
R&S DESIGN
Mold & Part Designer, 2002 - 2003
Chicago White Metal Die Casting
Process Engineer, 1998 - 2002
Leitelt Brothers Foundry
Laborer, Machinist, Welder, Foreman, 1991 - 1998

Education:
Illinois Institute of Technology
BAS Manufacturing Technology and Management, 1999 - 2006
Northern Michigan University
BAS Manufacturing Technology, 1994 - 1996
Prairie State College
AAS Manufacturing Technology, 1991 - 1994