Jules Topart
Doctor and engineer in mechanical engineering
I design machines and the software that drives them.
My ground is where mechanics, heat, control and code meet: additive manufacturing, machine control, digital twins. That is where projects stall most often, because each speciality assumes the problem belongs to the other one.
I trained as a mechanical engineer and I write firmware. The combination is uncommon, and it is usually why people call.
Professional experience
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FabLab
I developed additive manufacturing machines and robots there: mechanical design, electronics, firmware, software. With no support team and no budget, you learn to go quickly from sketch to a part that runs, and above all which steps can be skipped and which cannot.
Rapid prototyping, from design to a machine that works.
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Engineering school · teaching and research
I taught mechanical engineering. Alongside it, I put together and ran funded research projects, regional and international: writing the proposal, the budget, coordinating partners, progress reports.
Explaining a technical system to people who do not know it. Winning a funded project and seeing it through.
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University · research engineer
Multi-material, multi-process additive manufacturing: machines that lay down several materials, with several processes, in the same part. Few subjects force mechanics, heat, control and software to hold together quite as much. I also run international projects there.
Complex system architecture, digital twins, additive manufacturing.
Education
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UTBM · Belfort
Engineering degree in mechanical engineering
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Fab Academy · Boston, remote
How to Make (Almost) Anything
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UPJV · Amiens
Doctorate in mechanical engineering
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