Berardino Baratta
MxD
Berardino Baratta is an accomplished leader in technology and advancing manufacturing, with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. As the CEO of MxD, the digital manufacturing and cybersecurity institute, Berardino works with the U.S. Department of Defense and a nearly 300-member ecosystem to drive economic prosperity and support national security by increasing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.
Through MxD’s diverse array of projects and partnerships, Berardino oversees critical efforts to enhance digital readiness and cybersecurity across the manufacturing sector, prepare the workforce for the advanced manufacturing jobs of the future, and ensure resilient and secure supply chains in an era of increased geopolitical disruption.
Welcome to MxD
MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) advances economic prosperity and national security by strengthening U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through technology innovation, workforce development, and cybersecurity preparedness. In partnership with the Department of Defense, we convene an ecosystem to solve critical manufacturing challenges by accelerating digital adoption, empowering a skilled workforce, and modernizing supply chains. MxD is also the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing as designated by DoD.
Ryan Bounds
Newport News Shipbuilding
Ryan Bounds is the MBD lead developing the standards strategy for NNS’s digital evolution. He has over 11 years of experience in the shipbuilding industry.
Developing Contractual Language for Model-Based Standards
Ryan Bounds and Duane Hess will be presenting an update on their “Digital Shipbuilding Standards” project where they will share the efforts taken to advance the U.S. Naval shipbuilding industry’s model-based capabilities with a “standards first” approach. This session will highlight contractual language requirements for future shipbuilding programs.
Jacob Brooks
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Center for Precision Metrology
Jacob Brooks is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Center for Precision Metrology, advised by Dr. Edward Morse. His research focuses on the interoperability of digital metrology information.
QIF-Compatible Digital Calibration Certificates
The presented work proposes a scheme for mapping calibration information from QIF documents to XML digital calibration certificates (DCCs) and introduces a simple software utility for writing, manipulating, and validating these DCCs. If adopted, software vendors could import and export these files directly to and from their software packages.
Curtis Brown
Honeywell FM&T
Curtis Brown is a principal engineer, MBE focus lead, and key advocate for digital manufacturing at Honeywell FM&T. He is NSE MBE Maturity Index’s primary editor, invented FBTol Advisor tool, and president of the DMSC. He has contributed significantly to standards like DMIS, QIF, and MBC within the digital metrology field.
DMSC, One Consortium, Three Interoperability Standards.
This presentation will share the DMSC’s mission, vision, and goals. He will provide a summary and update on DMSC’s three standards, Dimensional Measurement Interface Specification (DMIS), Quality Information Framework (QIF), and the Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) as well as other on-going activities.
William Cockrell
Edwards Lifesciences
William Cockrell is a Director, Business Solutions with Edwards Lifesciences. William has led Model-Based Definition (MBD) efforts for 10 years and has been focused on the implementation of MBD at Edwards Lifesciences for the last two-years, including development of standards, processes, and training to support pilots and program adoption.
Getting Heart Healthy Using Model-Based Exercises
Aerospace and Defense (A&D) pioneered the shift towards Model-Based (MBx), driven by the Department of Defense (DoD). In contrast, the medical industry has not experienced a similar directive from the FDA. Edwards Lifesciences is proactively transitioning from 2D drawings to MBx methodologies, including Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Model-Based Inspection (MBI).
Ryan Cox
Honeywell FM&T
Cox graduated from Brigham Young University in Mechanical Engineering. He joined advanced methods teams at Pratt & Whitney and then Honeywell, developing engineering methods to solve non-traditional design problems. He joined Honeywell FM&T in 2021 where he is currently leading digital transformation and Model Based Definition efforts.
Product Characteristics (PC) Tagged Exemplar MBE Models for Public Dissemination
Ryan Cox’s presentation, Product Characteristics (PC) Tagged Exemplar MBE Models for Public Dissemination, will look at how exemplar MBD models have been developed and made available in the public-domain to support model-based process and tool development while protecting proprietary data. Available in multiple formats, these models ensure consistent collaboration. This presentation describes the models including the integration of PC Tag Identifiers per the DMSC Model-Base Product-Characteristic Standard.
Jan deNijs
Lockheed Martin
Jan de Nijs is the Lockheed Martin Tech Fellow for Enterprise Digital Production. In 2016, he joined the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Division in Fort Worth, Texas, to become part of the F-35 Production team. Today, his focus is on corporate strategy for downstream consumption of model-based information. Jan holds a Technical Doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Applying UUIDs – What is Considered a Feature?
Over the last decade, the CAD and Operational domains have attributed considerably different domain specific meaning to the word “feature.” This has led to significant confusion, especially within the standards users’ community. As a result, it became unclear what to apply identifiers (such as UUID’s) to. Jan de Nijs’ presentation, “Applying UUIDs: What is Considered a Feature?”, provides a proposal for domain specific terminology.
Dan Feighery
Action Engineering
Dan Feighery is the Director of Digital Engineering for Action Engineering. He works with organizations to enable their digital transformation into a Model-Based Enterprise. Dan is the chair of ASME Y14 Subcommittee 6 on Screw Thread Representation and the Technical Secretary of the ASME MBE & Y14 Harmonization Committee.
Leveraging Standards Development Organizations for Value in Model-Based Implementations
Leveraging standards in an MBE offers tremendous benefits for data reuse in process automation and optimization. Ensuring SDO strategies align in the complicated ecosystem of product realization is critical. Action Engineering highlights an example of aligning ASME authoring standards and ISO data and process standards for mechanical hole representation data.
Michael Figura
OAGi
For 30 years Figura has been working at the forefront of digital transformation in both public and private sectors. He is the currently the VP of Operations at OAGi, and an expert on various standards involving interoperability within the enterprise.
The Future of Standards-Based Interoperability
Michael’s session examines connectSpec as a foundation of enterprise interoperability for the last 30 years. The past decade has seen an enormous increase in connectSpec’s interoperability with other standards, steadily increasing its value to the modern enterprise. Digital transformation has never been easier.
Bryan Fischer
Advantage MBE
Bryan is an ASME Fellow, leader, advisor, and trainer in MBD, MBE, GD&T, ISO GPS, engineering standards and related disciplines. Bryan has written extensively about these topics. His new book “Model-Based Enterprise” was published in December 2024. Bryan has advised companies and trained and empowered thousands of people since 2001.
MBE as an Information Paradigm – Achieving Lasting Value with MBD and MBE
Treating MBE as an information management discipline clarifies what MBE really is, why MBE matters, and how to obtain maximum value from MBE. Aligning how information is created, how it is intended to be used, and how it is actually used are core requirements of maximizing organizational value from MBE.
Sam Gambrell
Lockheed Martin
Gambrell is a Quality Project Engineer at Lockheed Martin. He is working on digital transformation initiatives, focusing on how manufacturing information can be collected and used to improve existing processes while also enabling data-driven insight. He is involved in the development of QIF 4.0 and the adoption of QIF at Lockheed Martin.
Implementation of QIF in the Real World
Lockheed Martin’s 1LMX initiate is to modernize their manufacturing processes through digitally transformation. Sam Gambrell has been part of the Quality implementation of a model based workflow, making use of QIF for transitioning data when available. His presentation, Implementation of QIF in the Real World, covers some of the trials and tribulations experienced during this journey.
Chris Garrett
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
A Senior Level Executive, he serves as the recognized Air Force authority for systems engineering for weapon systems lifecycle management charged with providing technical oversight and advice to high level Air Force and government officials.
Model Based Everything: US Air Force Digital Transformation
The move to model based systems engineering begs for the movement to model based everything. We need to strive to integrate all aspects of a system’s lifecycle from initial concept to manufacturing to operations. There are many standards addressing various functions in the lifecycle but thus far the required interoperability across the lifecycle has not been achieved. How do we get there?
Blake Gorowsky
Pratt & Whitney
Blake Gorowsky is currently a Senior Technical Fellow – Model-Based Design & Definition for Pratt & Whitney. Blake has ~17 years of technical experience in the manufacturing, quality & design engineering disciplines. Blake has also partnered with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and other industry standards for 10+ years.
Implementation of Model-Based Characteristics within the Product Development Process
A framework for understanding how the authoring of model-based characteristics within a PLM system integrates with the traditional understanding of the product development process and what should be considered as a roadmap for future state optimization. Consideration for persistence of characteristics across components to assemblies and the transformation from functional intent to manufacturing implementation is reviewed.
Tom Groff
Kotem
Groff is the President of Kotem and holds the position of VP Enterprise Products for OGP/QVI. Kotem has software products to support the full MBE workflow with emphasis on GD&T. OGP offers a full line of metrology hardware products. He holds degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Technology Management.
Advanced MBE Methods that Inform Bidirectional Communication Between Manufacturing and Quality Disciplines
Manufacturing and Quality disciplines consume and publish data to the digital thread. What machine readable MBD data should be included for optimizing the various interactions between Manufacturing and Quality? In Tom Groff’s presentation, Advanced MBE Methods that Inform Bidirectional Communication Between Manufacturing and Quality Disciplines, you’ll learn how Manufacturing can benefit from Quality assurance data, and how Quality can benefit from Manufacturing data.
Michael Gwara
Pratt & Whitney
Michael Gwara is a Sr Manager at Pratt & Whitney, a division of RTX Corporation. He leads a team responsible for developing Model Based Manufacturing capabilities that allow for rapid consumption, re-use, and traceability of MBD through the Digital Thread. Prior to Pratt & Whitney, he has 12 years of experience in manufacturing, factory standups, and systems engineering.
Enterprise Model Based System Integration & Digital Thread Implementation
The RTX team will highlight implementation challenges of a part-centric digital thread and the benefits moving to feature-based traceability. The team will also highlight opportunities for cross-industry collaboration between OEMs, Suppliers, and MBE Solution providers in supporting standards-based integrations and the benefit opportunity for interoperability between key Digital Technology systems
Melissa Harvey
Action Engineering
Melissa is an MBD & Interoperability Implementation Coach with Action Engineering. She is a driving member in the industry data standards space working on maturing ISO 10303-242 (STEP) and JT standards models and implementations. to get closer to lossless data interoperability between the design and manufacturing spaces to enable automation.
Leveraging Standards Development Organizations for Value in Model-Based Implementations
Leveraging standards in an MBE offers tremendous benefits for data reuse in process automation and optimization. Ensuring SDO strategies align in the complicated ecosystem of product realization is critical. Action Engineering highlights an example of aligning ASME authoring standards and ISO data and process standards for mechanical hole representation data.
Duane Hess
Action Engineering
Duane Hess is a Digital Engineering Consultant providing guidance on MBE solutions for Action Engineering. He has over 25 years of experience in industry.
Developing Contractual Language for Model-Based Standards
Ryan Bounds and Duane Hess will be presenting an update on their “Digital Shipbuilding Standards” project where they will share the efforts taken to advance the U.S. Naval shipbuilding industry’s model-based capabilities with a “standards first” approach. This session will highlight contractual language requirements for future shipbuilding programs.
Ben Kassel
University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Ben dedicated 37 years using and developing CAD technology at the David Taylor Model Basin and the NAVSEA Computer Aided Engineering Division. Currently as a Visiting Principal Faculty Specialist at the UMD Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security Ben is developing and implementing Digital Thread enabled Model-Based Definition technologies.
Ben has assisted in organizing the technical content and planning event logistics.
Save the Stovepipes
Silos, considered to be the antithesis of an integrated Digital Engineering environment are the true incubators of innovation. In some cases a reduction in efficiency within a silo may be required in order to improve overall organizational efficiency. The silo is not the problem, the unmanaged silo is the problem.
William Kerr
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Dr. Kerr is the Metrology Theme Lead within the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland. He leads a team of engineers to deliver projects sitting across the TRL scale to both industrial and academic partners. Most recently, he has been heading up MBD implementation within the NMIS remanufacturing Digital Product Passport.
MBD and QIF Workflow Implementation for Remanufacturing Digital Product Passport
Digital Product Passports are being legislated for remanufacturing and there is a need for capable data standards to define these. William Kerr’s session, MBD and QIF Workflow Implementation for Remanufacturing Digital Product Passport, examines how a QIF-enabled MBD workflow for remanufacturing has been demonstrated, showing how OEMs can implement such workflows, harvest the data and allow SMEs to participate with no barrier to entry.
Evan Kessick
Elysium
Evan Kessick is the Director of Model-Based Initiatives at Elysium, specializing in 3D MBD CAD data interoperability. Evan has over 18 years of experience in engineering and design with experience leading and advising MBD and MBE implementations. Evan is also actively involved in ASME committees, including chairing the MBE Committee and co-chairing the Y14/MBE Harmonization Committee.
ASME Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Standards Update
The ASME Model-Based Standards Update highlights ongoing efforts to modernize standards for model-based activities. The MBE and Y14 Harmonization committee focus on supporting Model-Based Definition (MBD) adoption and the MBE Committee is focused on improving the exchange of model-based data across industries. This discussion covers the committees’ progress and emphasizes engagement for maximizing model-based investments.
Ercihan Kiraci
CIMAT Lab
Ercihan Kiraci is a Lead Engineer at the CIMAT Lab, part of the UK’s Catapult High Value Manufacturing Centre at WMG. Specializing in smart metrology and MBD, he leads metrology projects across automotive and battery manufacturing, focusing on data-driven quality evaluation and new product development across the supply chain.
Bridging Digital Transformation and Metrology for Enhanced Productivity Through Model-Based Characteristics (MBC)
Integrating advanced metrology with digitized workflows is key to digital manufacturing. Model-Based Characteristics (MBCs) enhance MBE, facing standardization and scalability hurdles. This research uses automated metrology case studies to highlight MBC’s potential for improved quality and efficiency, aiming to accelerate MBE adoption across diverse industrial sectors.
Toby Maw
Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
Dr Toby Maw is a Technology Manager in Digital Engineering at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), specialising in Digital Measurement Processes and Smart Manufacturing, Toby leads the Metrology 4.0 and Model Based Enterprise (MBE) research areas at the MTC, co-chairing an industrial user group and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) MBE strategy group.
Bridging Digital Transformation and Metrology for Enhanced Productivity Through Model-Based Characteristics (MBC)
Integrating advanced metrology with digitized workflows is key to digital manufacturing. Model-Based Characteristics (MBCs) enhance MBE, facing standardization and scalability hurdles. This research uses automated metrology case studies to highlight MBC’s potential for improved quality and efficiency, aiming to accelerate MBE adoption across diverse industrial sectors.
Trais McAllister
True Analytics Manufacturing Solutions (TAMS)
McAllister is a software engineer and CTO of True Analytics Manufacturing Solutions (TAMS). He also serves as chairperson of the MTConnect Institute’s Validation Working Group. At TAMS, he leads development in Model-Aware products, leveraging MTConnect Transpiler methodologies to simplify standards implementation and automate compliance for manufacturers.
Streamlining MTConnect Implementation with the MTConnect Transpiler
The MTConnect Transpiler is changing how manufacturers approach standards implementation by automating compliance and reducing development effort. Trais McAllister’s session, Streamlining MTConnect Implementation with the MTConnect Transpiler, explores how Model-Aware technology enables faster adoption, fewer errors, and greater accessibility for MTConnect implementations. Learn how transpilers can lower costs, improve interoperability, and support a scalable, model-based future.
Leslie McKay
SAE
McKay has 20 years’ experience developing successful products that leverage AI and machine learning, specifically voice recognition and natural language processing solutions. She won two User Experience Awards from Honeywell for developing a voice-recognition system used to direct warehouse workers. At SAE, Leslie is driving the development and adoption of digital standards.
How to Write a Digital-Ready Standard
Leslie McKay’s presentation, How to Write a Digital-Ready Standard, examines how digital engineering requires interoperability between different systems to drive efficiencies in product development. Much of the information used to support digital engineering is buried in documents. Traditional documents cannot deliver information into digital ecosystems. This session educates authors on how to think differently about writing technical documents that need to be consumed by a digital ecosystem.
George Rendell
Siemens
Rendell is Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing at Siemens Digital Industries Software, where he is responsible for Design center and PLM Components products. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration from Xavier University Executive MBA Program.
Digital Thread: Characteristics
George Rendell’s session, Digital Thread: Characteristics, centers around Siemens Xcelerator and it’s introduction to the first traceable Digital Thread for Characteristics. DMSC specification for Model-Based Characteristics are supported through Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and PLM workflow. Traceability and engineering change are offered. These new Characteristics capabilities are built on the industry’s leading capabilities for Product Manufacturing and Information (PMI) and Model Based Engineering.
William Sobel
Metalogi/MTConnect Standard
William Sobel has architected complex systems across various industries for over 35 years. He recently co-founded Metalogi, promoting industrial manufacturing technology standards. Mr. Sobel is the Chief Architect of the MTConnect Standard, the first model-based semantic standard for manufacturing equipment, and also leads the Industrial Ontologies Foundry Architecture Working Group.
MTConnect Standard Update
MTConnect is the leading semantic model-based standard for machine tool data collection. William Sobel will present an overview of the MTConnect standard and discuss the benefits of being model-normative. Additionally, He will address the strategic direction of the MTConnect Standard in the upcoming releases.
Feature Recognition for Streaming UUIDs
Metalogi will present the associativity between UUIDs on a design model and data from manufacturing equipment. Metalogi uses a proprietary method to map telemetry to the final geometry UUIDs at the edge or in the cloud, allowing applications to analyze the effects of process variability on downstream outcomes.
Atsuto Soma
Elysium
After joining the company in 1995, Atsuto Soma was involved in software development such as shape processing, data conversion, data quality inspection, and healing. In recent years, he has also participated in the development of international standards as the chairman of the ISO/TC 184/SC 4.
Japanese Automotive Industry: Data Interoperability in Digital Engineering
The presentation focuses on realizing seamless MBD distribution among OEMs and suppliers, and addresses their challenges in identifying and solving issues found during data conversion benchmark tests that are classified as modelling methods, CAD specifications, converter limitations, and standard specifications.
Robert Steel
Belcan
Steel has worked in the defense industry developing and implementing Model Based Engineering process and tools into design engineering and bridging the gap to manufacturing for the last seven years. Robert is currently working for Belcan, assisting industry partners with realizing their Model Based Enterprise goals.
Bridging the Gap: Leveraging the NSE MBE Maturity Index to Comply with DoD 5000.97
Robert Steel’s presentation, Bridging the Gap, looks at how the Department of Defense’s Instruction 5000.97 builds on Digital Engineering practices, aiming to enhance interoperability, traceability, visualization, and collaboration of engineering data throughout the lifecycle.
Tyler Stone
Honeywell FM&T
Tyler holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Computation Mechanics and Computational Mathematics focus. He has been at Honeywell FM&T for 7 years where he applies simulation analysis to improve manufacturing process engineering and develops workflows to accelerate institutionalization of Simulation First.
Integrating Simulation Analysis with the Quality Digital Thread
A new homegrown application is presented to consume the digital thread to automate the calculation of GD&T for finite element simulation results. This capability allows interoperability between the simulation and quality domain using the Quality Information Framework (QIF) as the standard for interfacing.
Asa Trainer
Trainer Engineering Associates
Asa Trainer has over 40 years of experience in aerospace design, aerodynamics, and engineering software development. He has worked as a university educator and researcher in CAD and engineering processes and has led the commercial development of interoperability software solutions, resulting in several interoperability patents. Mr. Trainer, a member of the STEP community for more than 25 years, is currently focused on processes for persistent IDs in the model-based enterprise.
A Minimum Viable Product for Persistent IDs in Product Development
A minimum viable product (MVP) for persistent IDs in product development is near. We have a reliable standard for recognizing manifold solid representations delivering approximately 70% of what’s needed. Adding Product Manufacturing Information representations brings us another 10% closer. What gaps exist in the remaining 20%, and how quickly can we close them?
Ben Urick
nVariate
Benjamin Urick, Ph.D., P.E., President of nVariate and lead of the ISO 10303 STEP T1 “Geometry and Topology” group. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, MS in Engineering Mechanics from UT Austin, MS and BS from U.C. Berkeley. His expertise is solid and geometric modeling, and CAx data exchange.
Geometric Modeling Across Domains in the Digital Thread: STEP, QIF, MTConnect, and Beyond
Semantic cross-domain interoperability across domain specific models (e.g., STEP, QIF, MTConnect, etc.) must effectively be realized down to the geometric representation. In this talk we discuss the issues confronted in synergizing Computer-Aided (CAx) domains, the challenges, the misunderstandings, and the opportunities from a CAx application developer and standards contributor.
Hermitt Vega
Pratt & Whitney
Hermitt leads strategic MBD and MBE Implementation, Solution Architecture, Pilot Planning, Modeling Standards and Best Practices, GD&T Authoring and Publishing,
MBD Supply Chain Readiness and MBD-related software tool testing.
Real End-User Workflows: Experiences and Challenges
As QIF continues to rapidly evolve, I’m pleased to say we are encountering ‘high class’ challenges. These are a byproduct of our putting the digital workflow to the test and moving through the stages of design, consumption, measurement and reporting, all while maintaining the digital thread through persistent ID’s. It is only through real deployments, end to end, that we can fine tune the workflows and identify the key gaps. Such activities are critical to achieving the full value proposition of QIF. In this session we will report on how well this worked in an end-to-end pilot between Pratt & Whitney, Capvidia, and Hexagon. The results are illuminating.
Ken Woodbine
Hexagon
Ken Woodbine has been in the metrology industry for 30+ years. He has held a variety of leadership positions within Hexagon, including applications and sales management, software development management, product line and portfolio management. Currently he holds the position of Senior Portfolio Manager, overseeing a number of our high-profile metrology software products and projects, including the realization of QIF for metrology. Ken prides himself on creating and evolving solutions that our customers truly value.
Real End-User Workflows: Experiences and Challenges
As QIF continues to rapidly evolve, I’m pleased to say we are encountering ‘high class’ challenges. These are a byproduct of our putting the digital workflow to the test and moving through the stages of design, consumption, measurement and reporting, all while maintaining the digital thread through persistent ID’s. It is only through real deployments, end to end, that we can fine tune the workflows and identify the key gaps. Such activities are critical to achieving the full value proposition of QIF. In this session we will report on how well this worked in an end-to-end pilot between Pratt & Whitney, Capvidia, and Hexagon. The results are illuminating.
Sam Yang
RTX Technology Research Center
Samuel Yang is a Sr Principal Engineer at RTX Technology Research Center. He is currently developing digital thread capabilities to enable MB-DMI and to capture insights from existing production data for design producibility assessment. Prior to RTRC, he has 18 years of design and test engineering experience in space propulsion.
Enterprise Model Based System Integration & Digital Thread Implementation
The RTX team will highlight implementation challenges of a part-centric digital thread and the benefits moving to feature-based traceability. The team will also highlight opportunities for cross-industry collaboration between OEMs, Suppliers, and MBE Solution providers in supporting standards-based integrations and the benefit opportunity for interoperability between key Digital Technology systems.
Christian Zamiela
Auburn University
Christian Zamiela, Assistant Research Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Auburn University, is seeking to advances systems engineering by enhancing model-based definitions to strengthen manufacturing capabilities. His research interests are in designing advanced manufacturing systems and integrating AI/ML into manufacturing systems engineering.
Enhancing MBD for Manufacturing and Inspection in Small-Medium Enterprises
Small- and Medium-sized Manufacturers (SMMs) lag in smart manufacturing adoption due to limited resources and reliance on traditional methods. This research by Auburn University ICAMS investigates MBD adoption in manufacturing and inspection, identifies barriers, and outlines strategies to accelerate implementation, enhancing integration and efficiency in SMM manufacturing ecosystems.
Rosemary Astheimer
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Rosemary is a Mechanical Engineer at NIST on the smart manufacturing team focusing on the development of computer interpretable standards working with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Model-Based Interoperability Forum. Astheimer spent 9 years as a professor at Purdue University and brought her previous 15 years of experience working in the CAD industry to the classroom.
Emcee
Rosemary revived the MBE summit in 2024 after joining NIST. She has assisted in organizing the technical content and event logistics.
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