IN THIS COURSE:

Join leading MIT faculty and industry experts in addressing the full spectrum of AM technologies─ for polymers, metals, composites, and other advanced materials. Walk away with the knowledge and confidence to identify valuable applications of AM, and to architect and implement innovative uses of AM across the product life cycle.

The course also incorporates advanced digital design, modeling, and visualization tools, as well as an in-depth case study, where you will solve a real-world design or business strategy problem using your new knowledge of AM.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Acquire the vocabulary necessary to navigate the complex, multivariate landscape of additive manufacturing equipment, materials, and applications.
• Understand the operating principles of each mainstream AM process and how these principles govern its performance and limitations.
• Learn to identify how, when, and where additive manufacturing can create value across the entire product lifecycle, from design concepts to end-of-life.
• Acquire the skills necessary to design parts for AM that combine engineering intuition with computationally-driven design and process-specific constraints.
• Quantitatively assess the value of an additively manufactured part based on its production cost and performance.
• Evaluate the business case for transitioning a product to be additively manufactured vs. traditionally manufactured, in part or in whole.
• Develop a cutting-edge perspective on digital transformation and the factory of the future.