TY - JOUR
T1 - Additive manufacturing-from fundamentals to applications
AU - Stern, A.
AU - Rosenthal, Y.
AU - Berger, A.
AU - Ashkenazi, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Afeka Academic College of Engineering to whom the authors are grateful. Special acknowledge is due to N. Omer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Afeka Academic College of Engineering, for her thoughtful support. Thanks are also due to V. Palei, S. Maman, I. Kravchinsky, A. Ulanov and D. Shabat, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Afeka Academic College of Engineering, for their technical assistant and their students’ guidance. We are thankful to the students I. Gutman, R. Sudman, G. Sabah O. El Natan, K. Bar Yosef, S. Vinberger Y. Mor, D. Gai, A. Peretz, who attended in the Afeka Academic College of Engineering Additive Manufacturing Course, for their permission to use and publish their projects data and results. The authors are also grateful to B. Doron for the English editing.
Publisher Copyright:
© Galati University Press, 2017.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) continues to increase in popularity and is used in many industrial applications. The purpose of this study is to present our approach to teaching AM at the graduate level in the form of a 14-week course developed in 2015 and taught currently at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering (Tel Aviv, Israel), and review three study cases of student projects designed, printed and presented during the course. The projects were designed in order to solve medical problems and help disabled people. The first project was to develop a bottle opener for people with arthritis; the second was to build a door opener device to assist people with Parkinson’s disease; and the third was to develop a personal connector bracket device for the Dobbs clubfoot bar, to help infants and kids with a clubfoot birth defect. All projects were designed with a CAD program and the prototype was printed with ABS material. The learning procedure included two iteration process steps that were performed in order to optimize the structural design, including considerations of mechanical properties and a 3D printing building strategy. Based on the students’ presentations and their personal opinions, the projects served as useful learning experience in their engineering education. Our experience from teaching the course (starting in 2015), and the impressive outcomes achieved by the student projects demonstrate the innovative potential of AM. It is worth mentioning that AM education, while rooted in mechanical engineering, is truly multidisciplinary, and education programs must embrace this context.
AB - Additive manufacturing (AM) continues to increase in popularity and is used in many industrial applications. The purpose of this study is to present our approach to teaching AM at the graduate level in the form of a 14-week course developed in 2015 and taught currently at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering (Tel Aviv, Israel), and review three study cases of student projects designed, printed and presented during the course. The projects were designed in order to solve medical problems and help disabled people. The first project was to develop a bottle opener for people with arthritis; the second was to build a door opener device to assist people with Parkinson’s disease; and the third was to develop a personal connector bracket device for the Dobbs clubfoot bar, to help infants and kids with a clubfoot birth defect. All projects were designed with a CAD program and the prototype was printed with ABS material. The learning procedure included two iteration process steps that were performed in order to optimize the structural design, including considerations of mechanical properties and a 3D printing building strategy. Based on the students’ presentations and their personal opinions, the projects served as useful learning experience in their engineering education. Our experience from teaching the course (starting in 2015), and the impressive outcomes achieved by the student projects demonstrate the innovative potential of AM. It is worth mentioning that AM education, while rooted in mechanical engineering, is truly multidisciplinary, and education programs must embrace this context.
KW - 3D printing
KW - ABS
KW - Additive manufacturing
KW - Devices for disabled people
KW - Engineering education
KW - FDM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054489503&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054489503
SN - 1221-4639
VL - 28
SP - 51
EP - 58
JO - Annals of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Fascicle XII, Welding Equipment and Technology
JF - Annals of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Fascicle XII, Welding Equipment and Technology
ER -