About Me:
I am Mārtiņš Krēbs, a Latvian American Designer and Engineering Student based in Cleveland, Ohio. I am a maker at heart, and have been building things the second I learned fine motor control as a child. I entered university, unsure of what to do with my future and what path to take. I started inorganic chemistry, and then shifted to Fine Arts. I Graduated Kent State Univesity with a BFA in Jewelry & Sculpture.
In my last year, I was introduced to 3D design and 3D printing. I pursued my interests of 3D design post-graduation, bringing me to Cuyahoga Community College's Additive Manufacturing Program. A few months into the program, and lots of personal time spent in the lab, I was hired by the school. I am now the Lab Supervisor to the Fab Lab on campus, and assist both students in the additive program as well at the community at large who come to use our open facilities.
Being exposed to engineering, interacting with engineers, industrial designers, and business leaders in the field, I had decided to go back to school for mechanical engineering. I plan to make my life's work mainly about revolutionizing agriculture and food production for human kind at large; tackling the problems of increasing water scarcity, growing labor shoratages (especially here in the US), and reduction of time between harvest and consumption.
My reasons to why I'm attending the Fab Academy, outside of work obligations, are being exposed to the full process of product development, new fabrication techniques and utilizing new materials, having the reasources to reference later such as the lectures, demonstrations, and student web pages, and networking with other like-minded individuals who may share similar goals and dreams I can team up with to change our world.
