About This Lesson
3-D printing is an innovative manufacturing technique developed by Professors Michael Cima and Emanuel Sachs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Once just used to create working prototypes, 3-D printers are now used by people from engineers to home inventors to make objects from their imaginations.
In this lesson, students will do the following : research how existing technologies can be modified or extended to new uses or applications, investigate additive and subtractive manufacturing processes and materials used, investigate how a three-dimensional object can be developed, and construct 3D models.
“Science of Innovation” is produced in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
