Workshop: SFF Symposium Student Support 2008, Austin, Texas, August 4-6, 2008

这项资助的目的是抵消学生与第19届固体自由成形（SFF）年度研讨会相关的费用，该研讨会将于2008年8月4日至6日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行，这是一个主题会议，是快速原型领域的研究交流。SFF研讨会是一个传递和传播增材制造领域知识和理解的机制。会议吸引了来自世界各地的大学、公司和国家实验室的100多名研究人员。SFF研讨会也吸引了世界各地的研究生。2007年，将近一半的会议参与者是学生。与会者代表27所大学，其中10所是国际大学。强大的国际参与为国内参与者提供了获得该领域研究的宝贵信息的绝佳机会。今年的特别会议将专门讨论自由教育问题。主题包括但不限于，本科教育和研究生课程，实验室经验，非传统教育和K-12活动。本次会议的一个主要目标是鼓励教师在教育过程中增加自由格式技术的覆盖范围。SFF研讨会是在促进教学、培训和学习的同时促进发现和理解的优秀模式。世界级研究人员与学生之间的联系非常紧密，因为会议通过其定价结构鼓励学生参与。该会议是通过研究人员和信息的联网为研究基础设施提供的一个建议。通过大量引用的论文集，信息被广泛传播到世界各地的研究人员和学生的广泛网络。社会影响是确定商业化前的技术，并分享与自由形状制造有关的信息，这些信息最终将被开发并实施到将提高国内生产力的机器和工艺中。

The purpose of this grant is to offset student costs associated with the Nineteenth Annual Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium to be held in Austin, Texas, August 4-6, 2008, is a topical meeting that is a research exchange in the area of rapid prototyping. The SFF Symposium is a mechanism for transfer and dissemination of knowledge and understanding in the field of additive, freeform manufacturing. The meeting draws over 100 researchers from universities, companies and national laboratories from all over the world. The SFF Symposium also attracts graduate students worldwide. In 2007, nearly half the entire meeting participants were students. Participants represented 27 universities, 10 of which were international. The strong international participation gives domestic participants an excellent opportunity to gain valuable information on research in the field. A special session this year will be devoted to freeform education. Topics include, but are not limited to, undergraduate education and graduate curricula, laboratory experiences, non-traditional education and K-12 activities. A major goal of this session is to encourage faculty to increase coverage of freeform technologies in the educational process.The SFF Symposium is an excellent model for advancing discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training and learning. The networking of world-class researchers with students is strong since the meeting encourages through its pricing structure the involvement of students. The meeting is a pinion for research infrastructure by the networking of research personnel and information. Through the heavily cited proceedings, information is widely disseminated to an extensive network of researchers and students around the world. The societal impact is identification of pre-commercial technologies and sharing of information pertaining to freeform fabrication that will eventually be developed and implemented into machines and processes that will enhance domestic productivity.