Welcome to the South Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility

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! 

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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.

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

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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 Development

• Franke Agenbag - Space Systems Engineer, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)

• 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)

• Sébastien Cargou - Chief Scientific Officer, Elveflow

• Dr Jing-Hong (Mike) Pai - ANFF-SA Senior Nanofabrication Technologist

• Daniel Williams - ANFF-SA Additive Manufacturing Technologist

• Dr Srihari (Hari) Rajgopal - NASA Glenn SiC Technology

• John Wrbanek - Electronic Engineer / Aerospace Technologist (AST),  NASA Glenn Research Center

• 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

• 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

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Practical sessions include:

• Etching and Photolithography (in Cleanroom) - presented by Dr Jing-Hong (Mike) Pai, and Dr Mohamed Amen, ANFF-SA

• Cleanroom Virtual Reality - presented by Dr Paul Weber, Utah Valley University and Dr Rufus (Ting) Chen 

• CAD modelling and FEA analysis - presented by Mark Cherrill, ANFF-SA and Ben Johnston, ANFF-SA Optofab

• PDMS devices - supported by Elveflow and presented by Dr Mona Tarek Elsemary, TekCyte, Trista Lin ANFF-SA and Alex Griffiths, Medical Device Partnering Program

• 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, DSTG

• Fibre optics - presented by Dr Dale Otten, Dr Stephen Warren-Smith and David Lancaster, UniSA FII

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Industry tours:

• Rapier Electronics

• Tindo Solar

• UniSA Future Industries Institute Thin Films Laboratory

• OptoFab

 

Registrations open for 2025:

There are opportunities to join us in person (limited seats and first come first served!) or online.

 

Download draft program here.​​

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

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

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