Kansas State University UC Showcase

Kansas State University UC Showcase

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  University Center 2023Showcase EDA Denver Regional Office April 11, 2023 Jeff Tucker, Executive Director EDA University Center Showcase Overview
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  K-State TDI’s UniversityCenter Focus • Accelerate Innovation for SMMEs through Technology/Product Development Assistance • Support Regional Commercialization Efforts • Encourage Business Expansion in Regional Innovation Clusters • Cultivate Innovation through Ecosystem Building Platforms • Support Applied Technology Development Internal and External to University • Technology Entrepreneurship Internships
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  Accelerate Innovation: Technology/ProductDevelopment DEF Production Equipment Robotic Laser Welding System Seed Metering System Robot Palletizing System Oral Surgery Ventilator Small Company Fabrication Production
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  Infrastructure: Microfactory DevelopmentProgram • Construction of a dedicated multi-tenant facility with the utilities needed to operate several individual manufacturing operations and a shared set of resources such as loading dock, forklift, packaging areas, and office space • Supported by Technical Expertise Partners, Workforce Development Partners and Capital Partners
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  Capacity Building: TDIDigital Retooling Projects • CARES Technology Reinvestment ($1.7M EDA, $425K KSU) • Fabrication and machining equipment upgrades • Emerging technologies expansion • Increase quality and capability of prototyping services and custom equipment/automation builds • ARPA Digital Manufacturing Initiative ($2.0M EDA, $500K KSU) • Digital Design and Manufacturing Technical Assistance • Acquisition of New Digital Technologies – Metal/Polymer AM, Robotics, IIoT • Digital Manufacturing Readiness Assessments • Digital Manufacturing/IIoT Learning and Demonstration Lab • Launch of an Informational Networking Hub • Support of Statewide Strategy Planning
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  TDI Shop: Pre-RetoolingProject
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  TDI New DigitalManufacturing Capabilities Machining and Fabrication Shop Additive Manufacturing Studio
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  K-State EDA UniversityCenter Lessons Learned • Build partnerships that “pull” from the university, rather than push from the university • Collaborate with/engage your EDA regional EDDs and state EDRs often – key partners • Need network weavers who are purposeful connectors and boundary spanners equipped with both connections and data/information • Need to be organic, responsive, agile, and continuously experimental – move at the speed of business • Whatever your scope of work is it will change. You have to go where the community energy and passion are abundant • Your community isn’t always ready for an “academic” and/or “best practice” approach, use the practice not the words • Requires new ways of thinking, behaving and doing – seek adaptive solutions
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  Thank You Jeff Tucker,Executive Director Technology Development Institute 510 McCall Road Manhattan, Kansas 66502-5034 www.ksu.edu/tdi Phone: 785-532-3421 jwtuck@ksu.edu