Research & Education
Additive manufacturing is transforming how products are designed, produced, and serviced. AM lets us produce on-demand, without dedicated equipment or tooling. This unparalleled flexibility unlocks digital design and production tools that can create components and products with breakthrough performance.
But knowledge of the fundamentals of AM, its design principles, applications, and implications is one of the greatest barriers to its wider adoption. In recent years the key importance of integrating additive manufacturing in educational curricula has begun to be considered worldwide.
Initiatives by both governments and corporations – as well as individuals – have begun to focus on raising the next generation of additive manufacturing designers and engineers
The main areas of exploration for educational activities are in software and hardware. While AM hardware learning is currently mostly limited to exploring the current additive production process and its applications, software offers some of the most significant opportunities in terms of learning to fully exploit the AM process in the future.
Latest additive manufacturing education news:
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GE Research is developing a high temperature, high pressure and super-compact heat exchanger with the help of 3D printing technologies. The project, which is supported by $2.5 million and will go one for 2.5 years, is part of the the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (ARPA-E) High Intensity Thermal Exchange through…
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We’ve become wary of headlines that read “Scientists 3D print human heart!” And with good reason. Still, there is sometimes something behind the headline that is of interest. In this case, a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a small-scale heart that integrates vascularization, ventricles and…
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An assistant professor in industrial systems and engineering from Virginia Tech and a team of undergraduate students are hoping to advance customized 3D printed prosthetics with the integration of electronic sensors. The project aims to make sophisticated, electric-powered prosthetics more accessible than existing state-of-the-art prosthetics. The research project, led by…
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3D printer manufacturer XYZprinting today announced its plans to invest over $1 million into its XYZprinting STEAM 3D Education Program. The company has placed a definitive focus on the area of 3D printing education recently, as its latest announcement follows a bundle offer for schools to receive a free 3D…
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One of the primary ecological concerns of our time is plastic consumption and waste. Of the plastic we use on a day-to-day basis, less than 10% is recycled, with the rest going into landfills and, as it becoming increasingly clear, the ocean. In addition to curbing plastic consumption and reducing…
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Nanoscribe, a specialist in microfabrication 3D printing technology, has been enlisted to participate in the new MiLiQuant research project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project, which also brings on Q.ant, optical systems company Zeiss, engineering company Bosch, the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and the…
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Desktop 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot has launched a new certification program aimed at promoting 3D printing in education. The initiative, called MakerBot Certification Program for Students, is designed to give middle and high school students a foundational knowledge about 3D design and 3D printing. As a manufacturer of popular desktop…
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Though the rumoured alien origins of crystal skulls may be outlandish, there’s a new set of transparent skulls that could stir up innovations within the medical field. Researchers from the University of Minnesota have created 3D printed transparent skull implants for mice that can literally give more insight into how…
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A team of engineers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have developed 4D printable smart materials capable of changing their properties—morphing between being stiff as wood and as soft as a sponge. The innovative materials could have applications in airplane or drone wings, soft robotics, implantable biomedical devices and more. The world…
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Wohlers Associates just released the Wohlers Report 2019, the 24th annual installment of its industry-leading report on additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing. The worldwide study provides the “pulse” of the industry by reporting on growth, development, and the future of AM materials, applications, systems, services, design, software, patents, startups,…
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