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The addition of 3D printing capabilities
promises to add a whole new dimension to The Ohio State University College of Engineering's
program for first year students.
We're in the beginning stages of introducing 3D printing technology in the first year program
using some of the low-end equipment just to get them a feel and flavor for what 3D printing
is all about. The idea is to take the traditional field of engineering graphics and extend it
into the 21st century, not only in using 3D technology as far as computer animation is
concerned, but also turning that into actual objects that the students can program and
print, and in some cases, these would be objects that could actually be used as part of their
projects or to enhance or augment what they're doing in the laboratory.
Student Instructional Assistant Josh Stauffer is excited about what 3D printing brings to
Ohio State's Engineering curriculum.
We really have this opportunity to really, truly design and that's really exciting. I'm
excited for the incoming freshmen, those incoming classes, that, they will go ahead and have
the opportunity to use cool equipment like this. If they have an idea, they can go ahead
and make it themselves, and they can get to be exposed to, well this is design, and this
is design for manufacturing. It's when we actually make this on these 3D printers. It
really gets that more advanced engineering, which is currently what you have engineers
in the real world thinking about.