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, 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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Nano Dimension, a leading supplier of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) and multi-dimensional polymer, metal, and ceramic 3D printers, has received a purchase order for its newest AME system, the DragonFly…
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Durability is a critical characteristic of the materials used to produce industrial machinery, marine vessels, aircraft, and medical devices. For these applications, manufacturers rely on a particular type of stainless…
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have reportedly developed a 3D concrete printing (3DCP) technique that promises better and more environmentally friendly structures, at a lower cost. Architect Mania Aghaei…
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The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has joined a project led by NASA to leverage 3D printing processes with the aim of manufacturing rechargeable batteries using Lunar and…
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According to the University of Arizona, in an era when hypersonic capabilities are increasingly important to national defense strategies, two of the university’s professors are developing new materials to 3D…
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Columbia University mechanical engineers are making great strides in the development of 3D printed food, in Professor Hod Lipson’s Creative Machines Lab. In a new Perspective article published by npj…
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The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna) has just introduced a three-day Summer School focussed on metal 3D printing in construction, which will be held at the university’s Alma Mater…
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The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator (LHC) is being upgraded, and AMCM, a company specializing in customizing EOS metal 3D printers, is part of it. In their quest…
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Applied Research Associates (ARA), a research and engineering firm headquartered in New Mexico, has awarded faculty in the University of Arkansas’ College of Engineering nearly $3.5 million to study the…
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In support of its effort to support its long-term exploration goals, NASA has announced plans to create two new institutes to develop technology in critical areas for engineering and climate…
