DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Emerging Area – Faculty Focus Group

3D PRINTING & DESIGN

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Faculty List – 3D P & D EmTV

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 Tasks carried out so far
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• Referred online MOOCs for the courses offered
Explore different universities, and their syllabus
colleges/institutes, Industrial trainings, etc., • Referred syllabus of Additive Manufacturing
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across the globe to refer content that is being from reputed Universities, NITs and IITs
delivered as course content • Referred syllabus of 3D Printing from Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Explore any cross functional fields where 3D • Referred 3D Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering,
Printing is being used like bio-medical Marine applications, Aerospace and Defense
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applications - Know more about it so as to applications to know about cross functional
include in our syllabus fields

Identify any training programs/courses with • MAXCADD – Coimbatore offers a one week
3 hands on training conducted for 3D Printing - training program
for the faculty to get trained • NIELIT, Aurangabad – Offers a 4 month course
• Created a basic level certification course
covering the following – Basics of 3D Printing,
Create Syllabus for a Certification Course
4 Introduction to FDM – Construction, Working,
on 3D Printing - for the students
Process Flow and Hands on Training with the
FDM

5 Identify any Industrial Mentor • In Progress

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 Certification Course Syllabus

Certification Course with Hands on Training on 3D Printing and Design using FDM (30
hours)

Introduction to 3D Printing (9 hours)

Unit 1 Need – Additive Manufacturing principle, process, classification and types –
Applications – Introduction to FDM – construction, working and specifications

Introduction to Design for 3D Printing (9 hours)

CAD Model Preparation – Part orientation, support structure generation – Model
Unit 2
slicing – Tool path generation – Design for Additive Manufacturing, concepts,
objectives, part quality improvements – Customized design for FDM applications

Hands on Training – Design of simple products to Prototype 3D printing

Unit 3
using FDM (12 hours)

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Thank You!