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MIT Professor John Hart
Professor John Hart teaching the students of the 'From 3D Printing to the Factory Floor' course.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is launching a new online classroom series debuting with a free 3D printing course entitled ‘Additive Manufacturing: From Prototyping to Production.’
It is an extension of MIT’s and Professor John Hart’s commitment to educating people in additive technologies, from the basic principles of the processes to its application as a manufacturing tool.
Hart will lead the webinar, which commences on December 5th, and will explain how AM is being harnessed to transform business models and impacting manufacturing. Speaking to TCT earlier this summer, ahead of delivering the annual ‘From 3D Printing to the Factory Floor’ course for the fourth time. He emphasised that education was absolutely essential if additive manufacturing’s potential was to be fulfilled, and was very happy he had the support of MIT in being able to contribute to the effort.
In this latest educational session he will provide an update on the latest advances in additive manufacturing, giving time to new materials and processes, the latest applications, and trends in the market. Emphasis will be placed on the technologies’ evolution from a rapid prototyping tool to a manufacturing one, using the number of Fortune 500 companies who are adopting 3D printing as a key example.
MIT’s annual classroom-based course was one of several education initiatives referenced in End of Year Report: Exploring the need for education in additive manufacturing. The feature assessed the demand for education in the industry, adjudged by many, including Hart, to be paramount to the future of the industry. MIT is just one of many contributors to the industry-wide effort, but Hart thinks the service MIT offers separates them from the rest.
“It’s great to see lots of education in additive manufacturing,” Hart said. “I think what makes us different at MIT is we focus both on the rigorous fundamentals and a vision of the future. By connecting both of them we want to give you the knowledge and the capability to go back to your jobs the next Monday and do something different and significant with your knowledge of additive manufacturing, and your awareness of how important it is to what you do and what we all do in the future.”
The Additive Manufacturing: From Prototyping to Production webinar will take place on Tuesday December 5th 2017, beginning at 2pm Eastern Standard Time and running for approximately 90 minutes. The subsequent webinars will focus on other subjects.
