Incorporating Stereolithographic Rapid Prototyping into the Senior Design Laboratory

该项目提供本科航空航天工程 学生在设计课程的手段迅速制造 精确的原型或零件的比例模型， 设计，没有求助于熟练的劳动力和良好的内部 一个学期课程的时间限制。 为此， 大学采用了一种设备（Stereolithographic press） 它可以使用已经生成的CAD实体建模器数据库 学生们在完成他们的设计的过程中， 将原型制作成三维塑料固体。 三个... 立体印刷（立体光刻）是安全的，可靠的， 最先进的技术，远远超出了发展阶段， 并且已经在工业上得到了广泛的应用。 这个项目 代表了这项新技术的开创性应用， 在市售的设备中，作为将 教育经验的问题， 工科毕业生。 该项目意义重大，因为它 解决了国家加强设计的迫切需要， 本科工程课程的制造内容 同时在这两个重要的 生产方面。

This project provides undergraduate aerospace engineering students in design courses the means rapidly to manufacture accurate prototypes or scale models of parts they have designed, without recourse to skilled labor and well within the time constraints of a one semester course. To do so, the University employs an apparatus (Stereolithographic press ) which can use a CAD solid modeler database, already generated by students in the process of finalizing their designs, to produce prototypes as three-dimensional plastic solids. Three- dimensional printing (stereolithography) is safe, dependable, state-of-the-art technology, well beyond the development stage, and already coming into wide use in industry. This project represents a pioneering use of this new technology, embodied in a commercially available apparatus, as a tool to bring the issue of producibility into the educational experience of engineering graduates. The project is significant because it addresses the urgent national need to strengthen the design and manufacturing content of undergraduate engineering curricula while providing the crucial linkage between those two important aspects of production.