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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The EU Machine Tool Alliance for Skills (METALS) project, an effort coordinated by CECIMO, has officially come to an end. The project, which launched in November 2015 as a three-year EU-funded project, wrapped up on October 31, 2018. To mark the end of the project, METALS has released a free…
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Cimetrix Solutions, the AM solutions division of Ontario-based software company Javelin Technologies, is seeking to promote additive manufacturing through education with a new partnership with Toronto’s Humber College. The partnership, which will span five years, aims to provide students with a deep understanding of current and potential industrial applications for…
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October is known for a few things: autumnal foliage, Halloween and—of course—the launch of Stratasys’ annual Extreme Redesign Challenge. The contest, which has been sponsored by Stratasys for the past 15 years, aims to promote the use of 3D printing for reinventing and radically redesigning existing objects. Hosted in collaboration…
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Schools across Poland will soon have more access than ever to 3D printing technologies thanks to a partnership between local 3D printer manufacturer VERASHAPE and publishing house Grupa MAC. As stipulated in an agreement signed at the recent Future of Education Congress, Grupa MAC will deploy VSHAPER GO 3D printers…
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Along with effective communication, one of the keys to growing AM awareness and adoption is education. When it comes to education in technical, technological and managerial fields, MIT is among the very top institutions in the world. That’s why the new 11-week MIT additive manufacturing online course starting this week…
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3D pens such as the 3Doodler have carved out a niche in the broader 3D printing market. Though varied in its applications, the 3D drawing devices have primarily become a new artistic medium, enabling artists (both professional and amateur), hobbyists and designers to create objects and three dimensional creations like…
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For the past several weeks, 3D printing has been making headlines around the world, and primarily in the United States. To the frustration of most of the industry, this significant media attention has been grabbed by the ever-notorious 3D printed gun debate, re-ignited by the U.S. government’s recent decision to…
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Addition Design & Research, a company that specializes in providing end-to-end advanced design and manufacturing solutions using additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, is offering a new one-day training course for companies looking for opportunities to learn about 3D printing and its relevance to their business in a non-sales, non-lecture…
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Just weeks after GE Additive announced the 600+ primary and secondary schools awarded with 3D printing packages as part of its Additive Education Program (AEP), the company has announced the universities that will be receiving industrial metal additive manufacturing systems from it. The announcement marks the conclusion of GE Additive’s 2018/19 cycle…
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Metropole, a French visual marketing agency that has embraced large format 3D printing by Massivit, has created an ultra-realistic, full-size 3D printed triceratops to promote a new paleontology exhibition at Paris’ Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle. With the objective to drive visitor footfall to the museum’s exhibition, the visually-striking dinosaur was…
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