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products for companies in New Zealand
and worldwide including several home
health monitoring products, security
and marine products and lighting products.
These include the Spengler SCVL cardiovascular
lab, a monitoring technology
that gives a comprehensive picture of
a user’s cardiovascular health. It measures
not only blood pressure but also
pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure
and cardiac output through a device
attached on the upper arm and another
attached to the ankle. The technology
represents a paradigm shift in the detection
of cardiovascular conditions.
He has also helped to develop Selecon’s
Pacific range of theatre spotlights
which produce a cooler, whiter
beam of light as well as a number of sophisticated
modular dimming systems
for Kiwi company Theatrelight.
Returning home:
Professor Olaf Diegel is
back in New Zealand and
ready to electrify and
amplify the way additive
manufacturing operates
in industry. He will head
the Creative Design and
Additive Manufacturing
Laboratory (aka The Lab) at
the University of Auckland.
Professor Diegel believes that AM enables
creativity and innovation, allowing
designers and inventors to immediately
test their ideas to see if they work.
This passion and creativity has flowed
through to his own start-up, ODD Guitars,
where Olaf produces 3D printed
guitars and basses.
He has received over 20 prestigious
product development and research
awards and is a principal co-author of
the “Wohlers report” (Additive Manufacturing
State of the Industry, Annual
Worldwide Progress Report).
The University’s new Lab led by Professor
Diegel will ensure New Zealand is a
leader in creative design and additive
manufacturing, revolutionising manufacturing
methods and products, and
promoting projects with commercial
potential through interdisciplinary research,
Professor Metson says.
try and employers and by allowing for real
flexibility within programmes,” he says.
“Whether you want to change career,
are a professional engineer returning
for further study or preparing to embark
on your career, we think the Graduate
School is the way of the future and it will
further strengthen the ability of New Zealand
to produce first-rate engineers able
to lead the way in future technologies
and knowledge.”
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