News — 3d printing

From Product Design and Development by Michael Petch What if 3D printing were the killer app to enhance education in a way never seen before? If recent surveys and reports are to be trusted, 3D printing in education could be the key to preparing students to enter the workforce and much more. Within four years, 3D printing will be partially responsible for a situation in which “more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today,” according to The Future of Jobs...

Originally from the Corvalis Gazette Times By Andy Cripe hroughout the state, these businesses can take the form of dog washes, laundry services, garden stands, and school coffee shops. But Monroe High School students are trying something new for Oregon: a business called 3D Dimensional Dragons, in which they use a 3D printer to create objects such as cellphone stands, ice scrapers, key chains and tablet stands and then sell them. Brenda Maynard, a transitions specialist at Monroe, said the program not only gives students experience with the software that is used for computer-aided manufacturing in industry, but it also...

From 3ders.org 3D printer company MakerBot announces today it is starting up its own MakerBot Innovation Centers for universities and businesses. The MakerBot Innovation Centers are filled with 30+ MakerBot desktop 3D printer and scanners with the goal of helping train the next generation of engineers, architects, industrial designers and artists. Built in partnership with MakerBot, the Innovation Centers were conceived to be used by multiple departments in corporations or universities that need access to 3D printing and scanning. At the university level, a MakerBot Innovation Center can be open to the students as a destination to foster innovation and...

From: NJTV News By Erin Delmore “In the bad old days, you had to buy these massive machines and do all this expensive stuff and now you just press print,” said Picatinny STEM Office Technology Manager Shahram Dabiri. It’s supply on demand. Picatinny Arsenal is putting the power of 3D printing in the hands of Montclair’s K-12 students, thanks to 36 printers bought by Montclair State University. The military research and manufacturing facility is stepping in to train the township’s teachers. “These are maker-bott replica desk top printers. They look rely complicated, they’re not. It’s basically a hot glue gun...

From Fortune.com by Andrew Zaleski Can putting 3D printers in schools lead to adoption in the consumer market? MakerBot plans to find out. When the State University of New York at New Paltz opened the first MakerBot Innovation Center in the U.S. in February 2014—complete with 30 MakerBot Replicators—it was heralded by the university and MakerBot as a major step forward. Here was an opportunity for SUNY students to learn the intricacies of digital design and fabrication, with some of the latest desktop 3D printing technology, which would effectively give them with the tools they needed to fit into a new...