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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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 of the AEP. Out of over 500 applicants, five universities…
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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 brought to life using Metropole’s Massivit 1800 3D Printer in…
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The GE Additive Education Program’s (AEP) 2018 cycle has awarded a polymer 3D printing package to more than 600 primary and secondary schools in 30 countries. Each package includes hardware, software and science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) curriculum and will be delivered by 30 September 2018. For K-12, primary and secondary schools, the program aims to build an…
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Chanua Health, a healthcare innovation company working out of Liverpool’s technical innovation center Sensor City, recently turned to 3D printing technologies to help educate young students about the importance of mental health. Working with support from Sensor City, Chanua Health 3D printed an interactive brain model that teaches students about different parts of the brain and about mental health in…
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3DPrinterOS, one of the leading operating systems for 3D printers, has announced it will be powering the upcoming KODAK Portrait 3D Printers by Smart International. Through the agreement, the highly anticipated KODAK 3D printers will be bundled with 3DPrinterOS Cloud 3D Printer Management software with the “goal of driving mass adoption of the technology in educational institutions and enterprises.” For…
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The recently fired up Ignus-II is the second iteration of the Ignus-I engine, the first 3D printed engine launched by a student organization. Ignus-II builds upon UCSD’s research and data gathered, featuring many improvements to optimize efficiency. Ignus-II is being developed to launch the Vulcan 2 rocket, SEDS UCSD’s second Liquid Oxygen/Kerosene bipropellant rocket. The engine is entirely manufactured in…
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3D Platform (3DP), a global leader in manufacturing large-format, industrial-strength 3D printers, continues to make stops and add new events to its much anticipated 3DP Roadshow Van Tour. As demand for 3D printers has increased, so has the competition to bring top performing machines to market. The 3DP Roadshow offers a unique opportunity for anyone interested in large format 3D…
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Wohlers Associates is partnering with the Québec Industrial Research Centre (CRIQ) to offer, for the first time in Canada, three days of intensive training on design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). The course is targeted at designers, engineers, and managers wanting to learn how to design parts that fully benefit from additive manufacturing. The DFAM training will take place at the CRIQ’s Montreal…
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3DX Industries, Inc., a state of the art manufacturer specializing in 3D metal printing, has been selected as a featured company in McGraw-Hill Global Educations latest manufacturing publication released on April 30, 2018. The Company hosted a tour of its facility with representatives from McGraw-Hill Global Education (McGraw-Hill) with the focus on 3DX’s binder jet additive processes used in its…
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A new MIT Additive Manufacturing course launched online this Monday, April 30th, on the MIT XPro Platform, with more than 1,100 participants enrolled from around the globe. Registration has now been extended until Friday, May 11. The $1,950, 9-week course is designed for manufacturing, design, or engineering professionals across industries, in any role that will be influenced by products, tools, and…
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