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Workshop with Anna Thornton: Are You Ready to Make this Product? Moving from Prototype to Manufacturing (Part 1 of 2)

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
EnterpriseWorks, Research Park
Virtual
wifi event
Date
May 26, 2021   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Anna Thornton
Registration
Registration
Contact
Cathy McArthur
E-Mail
mcarthur@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Research Park Events

Join us from 12-1pm on Wednesday, May 26 for a Workshop with Anna Thornton: Are you ready to make this product? Moving from Prototype to Manufacturing. This will be part one in a two-part series.

Register in advance for this meeting HERE.

Dr. Thornton earned her B.S.E. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. She started her career as a faculty member in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering department. During her time at MIT, her research focused on product development, manufacturing, and quality systems. After leaving MIT, she was a senior partner in Analytics Operations Engineering. At Analytics she worked with over 40 large companies to implement, streamline, and improve their product development, manufacturing and quality systems. As the Director of Engineering and Quality at Dragon Innovation she helped over 30 new hardware startups to transform prototype designs into final products. Dr. Thornton is the author of many articles, blogs and a book and is a frequent speaker in multiple university program and industry forums.

If you have questions, or need accommodations for this event, please email Cathy McArthur at mcarthur@illinios.edu.

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