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 enables new digital design and production tools that can create components and products with breakthrough performance: in order to truly unlock the potential of AM, research & education is of fundamental importance.
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.
Additive manufacturing centered research & education 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, the software offers some of the most significant opportunities in terms of learning to fully exploit the AM process in the future.
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Building on several years of experience analyzing and forecasting the opportunities associated with additive manufacturing composite FRP materials, 3dpbm Research is conducting the industry’s most comprehensive market study on this topic. If you are actively engaged in providing or developing composite AM technology and materials or are considering AM for…
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Smart, 4D biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shape-shifting soft robots. Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice’s Brown School of Engineering developed a method to print objects that can be manipulated to take on alternate forms…
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Mihaela Vlasea, an engineering professor at The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada who specializes in additive manufacturing, has been recognized as one of the top young engineers in manufacturing in Canada and the United States. Vlasea, who is associate research director at the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab (MSAM), was…
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Stratasys-owned 3D printer company MakerBot has joined the Google for Education Integrated Solutions Initiative with the aim of facilitating the use of 3D printing for both teachers and students. As a member in the Google-led initiative, the company is integrating its MakerBot Cloud platform – a print preparation and management…
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A team from Montana State University’s Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has developed a new technique for 3D printing microfluidic devices. The new method is capable of 3D printing directly onto a glass substrate to create thin fluid channels measuring less than a millimeter in width. The novel process…
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A U.S. Air Force program led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) is leveraging Senvol’s data-driven machine learning software for additive manufacturing to develop a methodology for demonstrating the viability of multi-laser AM systems for flight applications. Specifically, the Senvol ML…
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Unexpected worlds collide in this research project spearheaded by a team of mechanical engineers and computer scientists from the University of Minnesota. The group has developed a 3D printing technique that uses motion capture technology, typically used for moviemaking, to print electronic sensors onto organs that are expanding and contracting.…
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ExOne‘s binder jetting technology is at the center of a series of manufacturing research projects led by Pennsylvania universities. Five of the projects have recently received funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program. The funding comes from a total of $2.8 million that was awarded through the Department of Community and…
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An international team of researchers from universities in China, Belgium and the U.S. has made a bioprinting breakthrough by successfully 3D printing an ear inside the body of a mouse. The study, entitled “Noninvasive in vivo 3D bioprinting,” details the team’s innovative method for printing an ear in vivo without…
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This interview was originally published in the 3dpbm AM Focus eBook on Sustainability. Last November at Formnext 2019, aerospace and defense AM company Sintavia announced the launch of a new trade group aimed at promoting the environmental benefits of additive manufacturing technologies. The group, called the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade…
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