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Course Instructor: 3D Printing, From Design to Product
A full-credit university course I created and teach every fall semester, where every student builds a printer to keep. The course covers primitive and parametric CAD, how printers work (motion systems and thermal management), building and maintaining printers, writing code and custom slicing profiles, and designing for the 3D printing process.
I taught 10 students three hours a week across lab and lecture, wrote practical homework and exams built around real problems, and secured funding so every student builds a printer and keeps it, along with an air filtration unit. No prior experience is required.
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IDEA 419, open to students with no prior experience. Every student builds a printer to keep.