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University of Louisville DMD The Speed Scientific School provides SLS services and hosts a university / industry consortium with more than 50 member companies. In 2002, the university also acquired a POM-Group Direct Metal Depostion (DMD) system. Another area of research interest is RP-fabricated implantable strain sensors for spinal fusions.

University of Manitoba (Canada) They've recently established a Rapid Prototyping System Research Laboratory which has SLA and ancillary equipment. The focus is on integration of the design and manufacturing process, also time optimization. Also see this news release.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell Rapid prototyping and tooling research is being conducted at the 3D Systems Stereolithography Rapid Tooling Application Center located within the Institute for Plastics Innovation's research facility.

University of Michigan Stereolithography of Ceramics. See also the CAD/CAM group's Layered Manufacturing web page. The 3D Lab provides the university community 3D modeling and visualization technologies as well as rapid prototyping.

University of Minnesota - Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) Committed to economic development and growth in Northeastern MN with a state of the art RP & Design facility. Also offers ancillary services including finishing, metals casting using the ZCast process, machine shop, materials testing and verification, etc. We provide services to companies and individuals that do not have the resources of a large organization and are involved in R & D.

University of Missouri - Rolla See Missouri University of Science and Technology.

University of Nebraska - Lincoln The Center for Non Traditional Manufacturing Research has SLA and SLS technology, Research projects include: effect of build parameters on build time estimation and abrasive flow finishing of stereolithography parts.

University of Quebec (Canada) Adaptive slicing of CAD models.

University of Rhode Island LENS ® The first location to offer LENS ® (Reg. trademark of Sandia National Labs. and Sandia Corp.) services, for full density metal parts. We also offer SLS services, and can provide custom material solutions, such as unique ceramic-filled epoxies for high temperature, dielectric applications. Our focus is applying RP to the creation of tooling for die casting and injection molding. The university is also pursuing research into automating the finish machining of RP-generated tools, and STL-based CNC milling. [Note: This group moved at the end of 2002 to Utah State University. Contact info: Dr. Brent Stucker, Mechanical & Aerospace Eng. Dept., Logan UT 84322; 435-797-8173; brent.stucker@usu.edu

University of Southern California Developing contour crafting (CC), a process with nominal similarity to fused deposition modeling. The main applications of CC at present are very large structures such as buildings. The same group headed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis is also working on selective inhibition sintering (SIS). SIS is similar in some respects to selective laser sintering, but entire layers of powder are fused in single operation.

University of Southern California Layered fabrication of MEMS using Electrochemical Fabrication (EFAB) technology. Technology being commercialized by Microfabrica Inc. (formerly MEMGen Corp.).

University of Texas at Arlington Liquid Metal Jet Printing (LMJP) is being developed and is similar to ink jet printing where individual molten droplets are controlled and printed to specific locations. Work is on-going to build mechanical parts and electronic interconnect systems. Similar and/or related work is also being carried out at MIT, the University of California, the University of Toronto and at MicroFab Technologies, Inc. See the commercial page for a link to MicroFab.

University of Texas at Austin Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication. The selective laser sintering (SLS) process was first developed here and research programs continue.

University of Texas at El Paso The W.M. Keck Border Biomedical Manufacturing and Engineering Laboratory at UTEP utilizes stereolithography and fused deposition manufacturing technologies to fabricate anatomical structures for research and surgical modeling applications. In addition to RP, the lab has computational, fluid measurement, polymer and machining facilities. These include 3D laser scanners, particle image velocimetry (PIV) and LDA systems, dynamic mechanical analyzers, CNC machining, and other resources for complex modeling. The laboratory also does research in cardiovascular hemodynamics.

University of Toronto (Canada) Liquid Metal Jet Printing (LMJP) is being developed at the Center for Advanced Coating Technologies and is similar to ink jet printing where individual molten droplets are controlled and printed to specific locations. Similar and/or related work is also being carried out at MIT, the University of Texas, and the University of California.

University of Utah Research into several methods of RP.

University of Western Ontario (Canada) The university's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel facility uses FDM models to explore the effects of wind on bridges and buildings.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Working on the problem of representing data for multiple materials for 3D objects. Also pursuing rapid manufacturing of 3D meso and micro components with embedded sensors and actuators. The approach is rather like a miniature version of LENS ® (Reg. trademark of Sandia National Labs. and Sandia Corp.)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [The RP lab server has been down for months. This is the main page for the mechanical engineering department and it may be able to redirect you. If not, look under Faculty for Jan Helge Bohn's work.]

Washington State University No web site found. Fused deposition of ceramics (FDC) for silica and Ti loaded green parts; also infiltrating with Al to make metal-cermic composite parts.

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