2007:

• “From Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering to Biomanufacturing: a new paradigm for biomechanical engineering,” University of Arizona at Tucson, Tucson, AZ, November 23 29, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering,” Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, November 7, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering and Application in Biomanufacturing,” Medical Research Center, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Delaware, November 5, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “From Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering to Biomanufacturing: a new frontier for biomechanical engineering,” Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China, October 19, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “From Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering to Biomanufacturing: a new paradigm for biomechanical engineering,” University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, October 11, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “From Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering to Biomanufacturing,” School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, October 5, 2007,  as invited seminar speaker.

• “Recent Advances on Biomanufacturing,” China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology, Beijing, China, August 31, 2007, as invited speaker.

• “From Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering to Biomanufacturing,” Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejeon, Korea, August 27, 2007, as invited workshop speaker.

• “CAD/CAM in Biomedical and Tissue Engineering,” Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea, August 21-24, 2007, as invited lecture series speaker.

• “Solid Freeform Fabrication Based Bioprinting for Tissue-on-a-Chip Systems”, 18^th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, TX, USA, August 5-8, 2007, as invited speaker.

• “Biomanufacturing,”, School of Biomaterials, Southwest Jiao Tong University, Chengdu, China, July 25, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “A Multi Level Modeling for Quantifying Cell Deformation in Encapsulated Alginate Structures,” Computational Methods in Bioengineering Minisymposium, 9^th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics,”, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 23, 2007, as invited speaker.

• “Bioprinting of 3D tissue/organ chambers for pharmacokinetic models,” Bioprinting Conference, London, UK, July 11-12, 2007, as invited conference keynote speaker.

• “Bioprinting: 3 Step Process,” Bioprinting Conference, London, UK, July 11-12, 2007, as invited workshop speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 30, 2007, as invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering,” The International Conference on Manufacturing Automation (ICMA07), May 29, 2007, Singapore, as invited conference keynote speaker

• “Recent Developments in Rapid Prototyping of Biomaterials,” the Society for Biomaterials 2007 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 17 - 21, 2007, as invited workshop speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering,” Symposium on Biomaterials, Biomodeling, Tissue Engineering and Therapeutic Applications”, Feb. 25, 2007, Bangalore, India, as invited speaker.

• “Solid Freeform Fabrication for Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Applications,” The IndoUS International Workshop, Feb. 23, 2007, Bangalore, India, as invited workshop keynote speaker.

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2006:

• “Freeform Fabrication of Cell-Encapsulated 3D Tissue Construct For Pharmacokinetic Study”, Departmental of Mechanical Engineering the Hong Kong University, December 18, 2006, as invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Freeform Bioprinting of 3D Tissue Constructs for Pharmacokinetic Study”, the 3rd International Symposium on Bioprinting & Biofabrication, Kanagawa, Japan, Nov. 21-23, 2006, as invited symposium speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, the Departmental Colloquium Series for Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, November 1, 2006, as invited Colloquium Series speaker.

• “CAD and Computational Tissue Engineering”, the First Annual Charleston Bioprinting, Biopatterning and Bioassembly Symposium, Charleston, SC, USA, July 21, 2006, as invited symposium speaker

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, The IndoUS International Workshop on Rapid Prototyping, Bangalore, India, April 17, 2006, as invited workshop speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, March 2, 2006, as invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, Drexel Collaborative Research Forum: From Molecules to Health, “Tissue Engineering”, Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, February 22, 2006, as invited forum speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, College of Medicine, Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, February 22, 2006, as invited seminar speaker.

2005:

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, the Joint Chapter of Robotics and Automation and Control Systems, IEEE Hong Kong Section, Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 8, 2005a, invited seminar speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, the 9^th International conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Dec 7, 2005, Hong Kong, China, invited conference tutorial speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University at West Lafayette, Indiana, November 22, 2005, invited seminar speaker.

• “RP and Its Application in Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, 2005 ASME IMECE, Orlando, FL, November 10, 2005: invited panel speaker at the Special Panel on Rapid Prototyping.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering for Bone and Orthopedic Surgery”, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Second Medical University, October 6, 2005, Shanghai, China, invited seminar speaker.

•  “Freeform Fabrication of 3D Tissue Scaffolds”, the Symposium Near-Net-Shape Technologies. MS&T '05 International Conference, American Society for Materials, September 27, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, invited speaker.

• “Biopolymer Deposition for Freeform Fabrication of Hydrogel Tissue Constructs”, Symposium Next Generation Biomaterials, MS&T '05 International Conference, American Society for Materials, September 27, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, invited speaker.

•  “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, Panel on Object modeling & CAD for emerging bio/micro/nano systems, the 2005 ASME DTEC International Conference, September 26, 2005, Long Beach, California, USA, invited speaker..

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering and Its Application For Freeform Fabrication of Tissue Substitutes”, DigiFab 2005 - the International Conference on Digital Fabrication, September 19, 2005., Baltimore, MD, USA, invited speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, International Workshop on Biomanufacturing,, Beijing, China, June 29 to July 1, 2005, invite speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, General Electric Shanghai Research Center, Shanghai, China, June 28, 2005, invited speaker.

• “CAD in Biomedical and Tissue Engineering Application”, CAD’05 International Conference, June 22, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, invited conference speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”, 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, June 14, 2005, MIT, Cambridge,  MA, USA, invited panel speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering and Its Application in Scaffold Design and Fabrication”, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Institute, Clemson University, June 10, 2005, Clemson, SC, USA, invited speaker.

• “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: a modern engineering approach for design and fabrication of tissue scaffolds”, Society of In Vitro Biology 2005 Annual Conference, June 6, 2005, Baltimore, MD, USA, invited speaker.

• Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM), was invited as a keynote speaker to present “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the 2005 International Conference for Mechanical and Automotive Technologies, June 1-3, 2005, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, South Korea.

• Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM), presented an invited talk on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: an modern engineering approach for tissue scaffold” at the 2005 Annual Technical Conference for Society for In Vitro Biology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 6, 2005.

• Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM), was invited to present a seminar on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University, Clemson, South Caroline, USA, June 9, 2005.

• Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM), conducted an invited presentation on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 14, 2005.

• Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, conducted an invited presentation on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the General Electric Shanghai Research Center, Shanghai, China, June 28, 2005.

• Dr Wei Sun gets featured in ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine cover story: Life, meet Engineering by Jean Thilmany

• Dr Wei Sun co-organizes a NSF and Chinese NSF co-sponsored International Workshop for Biomanufacturing in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 29 to July 1, 2005.

• Saif Khalil wins 3rd place at the NEBE Conference held at the Steven's Institute of Technology, April 2nd-4th, 2005

• Dr. Wei Sun was invited for a seminar on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering – Recent Advances” at Rice University, TX, 03/30/05.

• Dr. Wei Sun is invited as Guest Editor for a special issue on Bio-CAD for Journal of Computer-Aided Design.

• Dr. Wei Sun is invited for a workshop presentation on "CAD in biomedical and tissue engineering application" at the CAD'05 International Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, June 20-25, 2005. 

• Dr. Wei Sun co-organizes a Symposium on Advances in Biomanufacturing at the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Exhibition in Orlando Florida.

• Dr. Wei Sun is invited as a keynote speaker for a presentation on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the Second International Bioprinting Biopatterning and Bioassembly Workshop in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, March 14-15, 2005.

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2004:

• Dr. Wei Sun is invited as a keynote speaker for a talk on“ Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering – Recent Advances” at the International Symposium on Micro/Nano Thermal and Fluid Systems” at the University of Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2004.

• Dr. Wei Sun was invited for a seminar on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering – Recent Advances” at the SUNY-Stony Brook, 11/19/04.

• Dr. Wei Sun was invited for a presentation on “Solid Freeform Fabrication in Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at Frontiers of Materials Science & Engineering Symposium: Bridging Science & Manufacturing at the 2004 Annual Congress of American Society of Materials, October 18, 2004, Columbus, Ohio.

• Saif Khalil, Ph.D. Candidate, presented a paper on "Biopolymer Deposition for Tissue Scaffold Fabrication" at the 2004 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting at Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 2004.

• Andrew Darling, Ph.D. Candidate, presented a paper on "Multi-material Polymer Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering" at the Polymer Network 2004 at NIH.

• Dr. Wei Sun presented a paper “Multi-nozzle Biopolymer Deposition for Freeform Fabrication of Tissue Constructs” at the 2004 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium at Austin, Texas, August 2-4, 2004.

• Binil Starly, Ph.D. Candidate, presented “Biomimetic Design and Fabrication of Interior Architecture of Tissue scaffolds using Solid Freeform Fabrication” at the 2004 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium at Austin, Texas, August 2-4, 2004.

• Dr. Wei Sun gave seminars on Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering in China at Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University  in September, 2004.

• Andrew Darling, Ph.D. Candidate, won the first place in the poster competition at the 30^th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, April 17-18, 2004, Western New England College, Springfield, MA, for his poster "Scaffold Informatics: Multi-material Strategies for Tissue Engineering".

• Dr. Wei Sun was invited for a seminar on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering Approach for Design and Fabrication of Tissue Scaffolds” at the State University of New York – Buffalo on March 5, 2004.

• Dr Wei Sun was invited for a seminar on “Multi-nozzle Biopolymer Deposition for Freeform Fabrication of Tissue Constructs” at the Polymer Division of National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) on February 5, 2004.