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/
By education and experience I am a Manufacturing Technologist, Designer, Engineer, Machinist, Welder.
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