Microengineering School

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Are you studying engineering or the sciences and interested in designing and fabricating microscopic devices used in the world’s newest technologies? Prepare to be mind-blown!

ANFF-SA’s FREE four-day Microengineering School -Tuesday 8th July through to Friday 11th July 2025 - provides students, researchers, academics and industry with a fascinating introduction to the design and fabrication of microfluidic/electronic, MEMS, optical and sensing chips.

8 x lectures | 8 x Insight sessions | 8 x practical sessions

Delivered onsite at the University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute, in Mawson Lakes, ANFF-SA's Microengineering School includes presentations and practicals delivered by industry leaders and technical experts who introduce design, fabrication and testing processes including photolithography, design for photolithography, etching, PDMS devices, microelectrodes, characterisation techniques, simulation and electrical integration and 3D printing.

Onsite participants can enjoy hands-on practicals using cutting-edge equipment housed in world-class cleanroom facilities, while lectures and insight sessions provide opportunities to engage with industry leaders for useful career insights.

Together with ANFF-SA's team of highly skilled technicians, ANFF-SA Microengineering School is proud to present a stellar line up industry experts and special guests including:

Prof Craig Priest - ANFF-SA Director, Future Industries Institute, UniSA
Dr Jane Fitzpatrick - ANFF CEO
Dr Judy Halliday - Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of State Government
Sébastien Cargou - Chief Scientific Officer, Elveflow
Dr Paul Weber - Department of Physics, Utah Valley University, USA
Trista Lin - Microfabrication Technologist, ANFF-SA
Prof Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem - Deputy Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS)
Franke Agenbag - Space Systems Engineer, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
Dr Jing-Hong (Mike) Pai - ANFF-SA Senior Nanofabrication Technologist
Daniel Williams - ANFF-SA Additive Manufacturing Technologist
Richard McMahon - Watchmaker/Horologist Director, R. McMahon Watchmakers PTY LTD and McMahon Micro Machining
Mark Cherrill - ANFF-SA Microfabrication Technologist
Dr Ben Johnston - ANFF Optofab Facility Manager, Macquarie University
Dr Viorel (Vio) Dragai - Chief Scientist, EV Group
Dr Srihari (Hari) Rajgopal - NASA Glenn SiC Technology
John Wrbanek - Electronic Engineer / Aerospace Technologist (AST), NASA Glenn Research Center
Coco Kennedy - Microfabrication Specialist, Research Engineering,
Research Technology and Operations Division, DSTG
Dr Leanna Read - Chair of SMART CRC, Carina Biotech Ltd and TekCyte Ltd

Practical sessions include:

Etching and Photolithography (in Cleanroom) - presented by Dr Jing-Hong (Mike) Pai, Trista Lin and Dr Mohamed Amen, ANFF-SA
Cleanroom Virtual Reality - presented by Dr Paul Weber, Utah Valley University
CAD modelling and FEA analysis - presented by Mark Cherrill, ANFF-SA and Ben Johnston, ANFF-SA Optofab
PDMS devices - presented by Dr Mona Tarek Elsemary, TekCyte
3D Printing - presented by Daniel Williams and Billy Michalatos, ANFF-SA
Characterisation techniques - presented by Dr Jason Gascooke, ANFF-SA and Flinders University, Leica Microsystems and Evident/Olympus
Microelectrodes - presented by Igor Switala and Coco Kennedy, DSTG
Fibre optics - presented by Dr Dale Otten, Dr Stephen Warren-Smith and David Lancaster, UniSA

Industry tours:

Rapier Electronics
Tindo Solar
UniSA Future Industries Institute Thin Films Laboratory
OptoFab

Registers are not open yet. There are opportunities to join us in person (limited seats and first come first served!) or online.

For more information on ANFF-SA's Microengineering School please email Julia Smithson.

We hope you can join us for this incredible program and we are grateful to our generous sponsors who help make this event possible: