Beutler, Patrick

Patrick grew up in Niederhasli near Zurich. After his apprenticeship as a design engineer, he studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich. In his bachelor thesis he developed an additive manufactured camping stove burner (PeakBoil) at the Design and Technology Lab, which won the 3D Pioneers Challenge Design Award 2018. In his master studies, Patrick focused on product development, design optimization and additive manufacturing. His master thesis investigated the automated design of flow channels considering manufacturing restrictions of additive manufacturing, specially addressing the overhang constraint.
In his doctoral studies, he investigates optimized designs generated through design automation techniques. The idea is to combine the design freedom of AM with various optimization techniques and industrial applications. One application is the integration of AM parts into magnet coils for superconducting accelerators which are used in particle colliders.