About the Speaker: Sandra DeVincent Wolf is the Executive Director of Manufacturing Futures Institute and NextManufacturing Center. She is also the Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Executive Director of the CMU Manufacturing Futures Institute, where she works to identify, connect, leverage, and accelerate research in manufacturing across campus and with industry and government partners. Her efforts support innovation that accelerates the path from discovery to commercialization, enhancing U.S. competitiveness and driving economic development in the Pittsburgh region. Additionally, she serves as the Executive Director of the CMU NextManufacturing Center for additive manufacturing research, leading the center’s activities and partnerships and directing the metals additive manufacturing laboratories. She joined the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2015 as Director of Research Partnerships. In this role, she facilitated research collaborations and supported the growth of new initiatives, centers, institutes, and industrial consortia. She continues to lead partnership development in support of manufacturing at CMU. Before joining CMU, Wolf spent 15 years in research, development, engineering, and management in advanced materials and manufacturing, working in national laboratories, a start-up manufacturing company, and large corporations. Her technical experience was followed by over 10 years in executive management of nonprofits, where she led initiatives from conception through implementation and assessment. Her responsibilities included internal and external communications, strategic planning, operational implementation, program management, corporate and government relations, education and outreach, and staff/volunteer engagement and development. She is a member of the America Makes Governance Board, the SWPA Additive Manufacturing Working Group, the Pittsburgh Chapter of Women in 3D Printing, and the Pittsburgh Chapter of ASM International. She has also served on the America Makes Executive Committee, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Advanced Manufacturing, Materials and Processes Program (AMMP) Technical Advisory Board, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Convergent Manufacturing, and most recently, on an NSF ERC Annual Review Site Visit Team. She holds an S.B. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in the same field from Case Western Reserve University, where she was a NASA Fellow in residence at the NASA Glenn Research Center. She was awarded the CMU College of Engineering’s 2018 Inspirational Leadership Award.