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Stephen B. Leonard is Operations/Program Manager for the Digital Foundry, Penn State, in New Kensington, PA, a new digital manufacturing demonstration and educational facility. He is responsible for developing and managing the workforce development programs designed to provide upskilling/reskilling for unemployed/under-employed and dislocated workers to currently employed and advanced manufacturing engineering staff and manufacturing operations leadership throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. Steve has been a practicing industrial designer and technical innovator for over 35 years. He has demonstrated leadership in design, development, design for manufacture and management of projects that have delivered over $3Bn in value to the organizations he has worked for. Previously Steve worked for Alcoa/Arconic at the Alcoa/Arconic Technology Center (ATC) as the Senior Innovation Leader in Arconic’s Growth & Insights office. He was responsible for orchestrating front-end innovation programs for Arconic and facilitating new growth programs Steve was an adjunct professor for CMU’s Integrated Innovation Institute Master of Integrated Innovation in Products and Services teaching Design for Manufacture, Assembly, and Sustainability. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Syracuse University (1985) and a Master of Science in New Product Development from Northwestern University (2004) and is the recipient of 56 US patents.