Kevin Reed is an experienced mechanical engineer with more than 20 years’ design experience, principally in medical, dental and field medicine devices and support equipment.

Expertise

• Additive manufacturing
• Injection and reaction molding design
• Design for assembly
• Miniature systems

Experience 

• Designed a dental surgical suite that weighs 35 pounds and the size of an airline carry-on suitcase
• Designed and prototyped self-contained field sinks for field surgery use by humanitarian organizations and US military relief missions.
• Developed analysis tools to understand device/tissue interface mechanics of a rotating atherectomy device
• Designed modular airframes and recovery systems to reduce cost of small atmospheric research rockets

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Henry Cogswell College

Interests / Obsessions

• History of technology and engineering
• Teaching
• Photography
• Cooking
• Cycling

Favorite Quote 

“ Now is the time to understand more, so we may fear less. “

~ Marie Curie