{"id":321,"date":"2016-08-19T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/?p=321"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:13:30","slug":"additive-manufacturing-training-course-professional-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/news\/additive-manufacturing-training-course-professional-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Additive manufacturing training course for professional engineers being offered by MABE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manufacturing-related research is a major national focus that seeks to make the USA globally competitive in product manufacturing. Primary ways to achieve these goals are new technologies and higher degrees of automation. MABE seeks to become a leader in advanced manufacturing. Research activities are presently focused on additive manufacturing, traditional subtractive manufacturing, material characterization, and intelligent closed loop control of basic manufacturing processes. New methods and tools to minimize production wastes, energy consumption, and environmental impact are being studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Additive Manufacturing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Additive manufacturing (AM), more commonly known as 3D Printing, offers the ability to produce incredibly complex components of arbitrary shape and design.  Such technologies, which produce three-dimensional components directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) interface, have been developed over the past three decades for a wide variety of materials. Specialized components are currently being designed to take advantage of the unique geometric freedom that AM offers and several applications are being discovered that minimize weight, reduce time-to-market, and save money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About this Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Additive Manufacturing Training for Professional Engineers is a comprehensive, hands-on, 40-hour introduction to additive manufacturing as it applies to today\u2019s industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics Covered<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Official Definition of Additive Manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Polymer systems\n
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    1. 7 types of AM<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Detailed look at Selective Laser Sintering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Detailed look at Fused Deposition Modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Detailed look at Stereolithography<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Hand\u2019s On Demonstration with desktop 3D printers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. FDM Slicing considerations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Metal systems\n
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      1. Powder Bed systems\n
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        1. Feedstock considerations<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Selective Laser Melting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n