Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorraine Francis, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Michael Manno, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. The MA team successfully fabricated a mug and competed withother MA chapters from universities around the country in a mug drop contest, which was held atthe Materials Science and Technology Conference in Columbus, OH in October 2015. Recently,our MA group also joined forces with another student organization to provide a ceramic part fora rocket, again using 3DP in the process. In the ​Senior Design Project​course, seniors in theirlast semester complete a ‘capstone’ engineering design project in collaboration with a mentorfrom a local industry. While these projects usually do not use 3D printing, instructors of thiscourse have noticed that student teams routinely use SW for CAD model development andsimulation. As an example, one student team