After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• select the appropriate prototyping technology for a given design, analysis, or manufacturing situation,
• understand the causes of geometric form errors and material property anomalies inherent in rapid prototyping technologies,
• apply rapid prototyping technologies appropriately in a substantial engineering design-manufacture project,
• operate 2-3 rapid prototyping machines.

• Prototyping requirements in engineering design
• Physical principles of rapid prototyping technologies
• Principles of SLA, FDM, LOM, SLS, concept modelers, Capabilities and limitations, Applications in product development
• Selection of RP processes
• Selection decision making, Characterizations of processes, Development of evaluation criteria
• Role of prototyping in engineering design
• Resource allocation for prototyping, Cycle time compression,
• Separation of design and manufacturing (new design-for-manufacture paradigm)
• Geometric error measurement
• Basics of metrology, Computer-aided verification
• Design Project
• Applications in design (possibly focus on design of RP machines)
• Applications in manufacturing
• Laboratory
• Training on each RP technology in RPMI (what to do and how to do it)
• Accuracy and calibration experiments on SLA
• RP process selection
• Training on CMM
• Design project