Sunday, January 4, 2015

A video, produced by ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, featuring Engineering professor and research Ibrahim Ozbolat on organ printing, has been recognized as the third most viewed video during 2014.

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Ozbolat, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and co-director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group in the Center for Computer-Aided Design, has been 3D printing living structures with bio-ink. In the video, he discusses the challenges of organ printing, a revolutionary technology for saving human lives.

To watch the video, go to http://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/media/bioengineering/video-3d-organ-printing-promises-challenges.

ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in 1880 by a small group of leading industrialists, ASME has grown through the decades to include more than 140,000 members in 151 countries. Thirty-thousand of these members are students.