today is the final presentation for themm 3305 3d printing and additive manufacturing class. we call it businesses for the thirdindustrial revolution because we believe that 3d printers are going to bring an entirely new way of creating thingsto our society. we gave them the freedom and the skills needed to teach ussomething about 3d printing and the result was this event. we had students printing medical devices, we hadstudents creating their own filament and
we had students creating companies based on what could be done with 3d printing. you know, that would be difficult to dowith any other manufacturing method. so we decided to create a brace for people that have rheumatoid arthritis. we can actually look at real-worldproblems, actually do a little bit of researching in a class and actuallywork with a team and we used all of our to come upwith a product. the funny thing is we're from three different countries... we study three totally different things and we nevermet each other before
this, but we really like coffee. we werelike whoa, let's see if we can make a coffee cup out of coffee and 3d printing coffee. themost important part of the entire course is watching these students from so manydifferent disciplines. i mean we have students from denmarkfrom taiwan from brazil. so i was able to develop a lot of mycreativity of working with people from different places and with differentideas. we had students with backgrounds inengineering, chemical engineering, mechanical, industrial and systemsengineering, business, design, all these different backgroundsand being able to watch them actually
come to a conclusion and get to work with people that are fromentirely different countries, entirely different backgrounds was the mostrewarding thing for me. another really unique aspect of this class is that not onlyare we teaching these students everything they need to know to 3dprint a part, but we also give them real world examples of how to experience 3d printing, so webrought them to stratasys, which is the world leader in 3d printing
and let them see it what's possible withsome of the biggest and best machines in the world. we've also taken on the worrell productdesign firm and gotten to see how a customer is actually using it in acommercial space. i knew a bit about 3d printing before, but i feel like i know somuch. i almost, you know, could go out to a company and be like hey, i know this!we're gonna give you the tools and then we want you to do what you'repassionate about because we know that that's the best work that you're going to giveus. i think people can see like that we really believe in the product because
they see like in your eyes and in your posture and in the way that you behave that you really believe in that. being able to feed that fire of innovation and just creativity and thenbeing able to manufacture that just next day has been just a joy to teach. beingable to design something in solidworks and being able to afford to come tofruition, get a prototype and maybe an end-use product and we were able to do that on many different levels for this course. today, things are changing. humans aregetting smarter, we're getting better withsoftware, it's getting cheaper... we can do things now that were impossible
five years ago and our students aredoing it and they're pushing the limits.
3d printing companies in michigan,and that's really what's happening. whathappened to computation and communication through this device andthrough many others like it is about to happen to the world offabrication and it's just exciting to be able to be on the brink of it here inminneapolis.
