A 3D Printing Vending Machine and its Impact on the Democratization of 3D Printing on a College Campus

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjai Bashyam ◽  
Joshua Kuhn ◽  
Carolyn Conner Seepersad
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
3D Print ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Common User

The Innovation Station is a 3D printing vending machine that provides on-demand, internet-enabled 3D printing to all students on The University of Texas at Austin campus. It was designed and built by the authors, who also operate the machine throughout the academic year. This paper introduces the Innovation Station and describes insights and lessons learned from operating the machine for its first academic semester. User statistics and common user mistakes are described, and a designer’s guide is provided to make it easier for first-time users to 3D print successfully.

scholarly journals Experience with Online Delivery of an Engineering Technical Elective Course

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wallace ◽  
Harpreet Dhariwal
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

MIE 515, Alternative Energy Systems, an engineering technical elective course open to senior undergraduates and graduate students, was delivered as an on line course for Fall 2011. This is the first time an undergraduate engineering course at the University of Toronto has been offered online. The course is also one of five pilot online courses across the University. The move online is being accomplished in two steps. For Fall 2011, a small lecture section of 25 students was used as a setting for video capture and the remaining 110 students accessed the course lectures online asynchronously. A live tutorial was offered once a week. All students were physically present for the midterm examination and the final examination. For Fall 2012, the course will be delivered entirely online, with the exception of student physical presence for the two examinations. Pedagogical and technical lessons learned during this transition year will be presented. The benefits and drawbacks of online delivery will be discussed from the perspective gained this year and compared with our expectations. Student feedback will also be presented and discussed.

scholarly journals On-Demand Intraoperative 3-Dimensional Printing of Custom Cranioplastic Prostheses

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander I Evins ◽  
John Dutton ◽  
Sayem S Imam ◽  
Amal O Dadi ◽  
Tao Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Perioperative Complications ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Production Time ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
3D Print ◽  
Fused Deposition ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Dimensional Printing

Abstract BACKGROUND Currently, implantation of patient-specific cranial prostheses requires reoperation after a period for design and formulation by a third-party manufacturer. Recently, 3-dimensional (3D) printing via fused deposition modeling has demonstrated increased ease of use, rapid production time, and significantly reduced costs, enabling expanded potential for surgical application. Three-dimensional printing may allow neurosurgeons to remove bone, perform a rapid intraoperative scan of the opening, and 3D print custom cranioplastic prostheses during the remainder of the procedure. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of using a commercially available 3D printer to develop and produce on-demand intraoperative patient-specific cranioplastic prostheses in real time and assess the associated costs, fabrication time, and technical difficulty. METHODS Five different craniectomies were each fashioned on 3 cadaveric specimens (6 sides) to sample regions with varying topography, size, thickness, curvature, and complexity. Computed tomography-based cranioplastic implants were designed, formulated, and implanted. Accuracy of development and fabrication, as well as implantation ability and fit, integration with exiting fixation devices, and incorporation of integrated seamless fixation plates were qualitatively evaluated. RESULTS All cranioprostheses were successfully designed and printed. Average time for design, from importation of scan data to initiation of printing, was 14.6 min and average print time for all cranioprostheses was 108.6 min. CONCLUSION On-demand 3D printing of cranial prostheses is a simple, feasible, inexpensive, and rapid solution that may help improve cosmetic outcomes; significantly reduce production time and cost—expanding availability; eliminate the need for reoperation in select cases, reducing morbidity; and has the potential to decrease perioperative complications including infection and resorption.

Melchioris Cani Relectio de sacramentis in genere

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Hogenmüller
Keyword(s):  
Early Summer ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
German Translation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year

The third volume of the "Opera omnia Melchioris Cani" covers Cano's first "Relectio de sacramentis in genere". Melchor Cano held this important lecture in the early summer of 1547 as a professor at the University of Salamanca, as a ceremonial lecture at the end of the academic year. The subject itself offers a highly interesting example of sacramental theology, which was widely discussed in the 16th century, in particular at the Council of Trent. First printed in 1550, the lecture was intensively studied until the 19th century. In addition to a general introduction to the author and the topic, a text-critical Latin edition including a German translation is offered here for the first time.

scholarly journals A LAB TASK GROUP FOR REVIEW AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THIRD AND FOURTH-YEAR LABORATORY COURSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Torvi ◽  
Scott Noble ◽  
Doug Bitner ◽  
Melanie Fauchoux ◽  
Rob Peace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Task Group ◽  
Laboratory Courses ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Remote Labs ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Since the mid-1980’s, the mechanical engineering program at the University of Saskatchewan has included three core third and fourth-year lab courses, each of which consists of 9-10 individual labs. In 2015 a task group was set up to review these courses, including deliverables, scheduling and links to material in corecourses. Since this time, the task group has taken on the major responsibility for continuous improvement of the lab program, including reviewing student evaluations, making changes to labs, and recommending equipment purchases.  The task group has also been responsible for a major redesign of the lab program, which will improve delivery and scheduling of labs, alignment with core courses, workload of students, and experience gained by graduate teaching assistants. Smaller apparatus have been designed and built in-house to allow students to gain additional hands-on experience. Labs have been designed to build on one another in order to systematically improve students’ general laboratory skills, including the use of data acquisition systems and experimental design. This new approach was used for the first time in ME 328 in 2019-20.  This paper will focus primarily on the role of the task group in continuous improvement, and the lab program redesign.  The new ME 328 course is described, along with lessons learned from the first offering. The task group’s role in moving to remote labs during COVID-19 is also discussed.

scholarly journals A WORKSHOP ON LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Romkey ◽  
Susan McCahan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practice ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

As an initial step in preparing faculty members for the new outcomes-based accreditation process introduced by the CEAB, a pilot workshop on creating learning objectives was developed for engineering professors at the University of Toronto. As the Graduate Attributes will be mapped to individual courses within engineering programs, the need for course-based learning objectives is even more critical; although research already supports the development and use of learning objectives as an effective educational practice. . This paper will describe the process of developing the workshop, facilitating it for the first time, and the lessons learned that were used in developing a second iteration of the workshop.

Building a Cochlear Implant Practice: Five Lessons Learned

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Anne M. Lobdell ◽  
Joseph E. Dansie ◽  
Sarah Hargus Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Cochlear implants are becoming available to an increasing proportion of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population. As interest in and success with cochlear implants has grown, more and more private practice clinics are incorporating them into their scopes of practice. Over the past 2 years, the first 2 authors of this article have been heavily involved in developing cochlear implant programs in separate otolaryngology private practices. A recent conversation about this process revealed several common experiences and lessons learned. During these same 2 years, the third author began teaching the cochlear implant course at the University of Utah. Although her audiology and speech science background gave her extensive knowledge of the science behind cochlear implants, she had no clinical experience with them. The first author took this course the first time the third author taught it, and the experiences and insights she shared with the third author during and since the course have been an important component of the third author’s personal education in the clinical aspects of cochlear implants. In this article, the first 2 authors share 5 things we wish we had known when first beginning their work with cochlear implants.

The Evolution of Active Shooter Protocols on College Campuses

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-306
Author(s):  
Tanya M. Grant ◽  
Makayla S. Dole
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Active Shooter ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Protocol Development ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
The University ◽  
Development And Evolution

Roughly a decade after the substantial spike in the middle and high school massacres that occurred in the '90s, we have now seen this disturbing phenomenon arise anew on American college campuses. Overall, these horrifying, high profile acts of violence on college campuses remain relatively rare, nevertheless, academic administrators are required to manage threats of violence on an increasingly regular basis. As colleges and universities face the realities of today's educational environment, preparing for an active shooter event has become a necessity. The mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 has been hailed as the first major college campus-shooting incident. Since then, years of active shooting training and protocol development and evolution has taken place. A description of four of the deadliest college campus shootings (University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Tech, Oikos University, and Umpqua Community College) and the progression of the related active shooter protocols is provided.

The Selection and Implementation of a Web Course Tool at the University of Texas at Austin

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Mark Lowry Decker ◽  
Morrie Schulman ◽  
Christopher Blandy
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research University ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Instructional Technologies ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Academic Computing ◽  
Parent Organization ◽  
Web Course ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
The University

For the past 10 years, the University of Texas at Austin has pursued the goal of integrating information technology into instruction. Through the Center for Instructional Technologies and its parent organization, Academic Computing and Instructional Technology Services, the University has recently developed a centralized approach to Web course development by selecting and implementing a tool for voluntary use by the faculty. This case study illustrates some of the challenges encountered and the lessons learned in initiating such a plan, given the institutional and personnel constraints of a large, historically decentralized research university. Educators from universities of all sizes realize that technological change has created a new reality for higher education both by intensifying the need for ongoing education and training and by creating tools that have changed the teaching and learning process. This study indicates that a small staff, even without overt institutional support, can have a large impact on this process by choosing an appropriate tool, actively promoting it, and conducting effective training.

scholarly journals 3D printed jewellery design process based on sculpture inspiration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Košak ◽  
◽  
Deja Muck ◽  
Marjeta Čuk ◽  
Tanja Nuša Kočevar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Design Process ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
New Production ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
Textile Design ◽  
3D Print ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
The University

In the article we present the educational process in which design students were guided through their design process, creating 3D printed jewellery inspired by the Forma Viva sculptures of the outdoor gallery Kostanjevica na Krki. The assignment was part of the international project Cumulus Re/Forma Viva, whose main goal was to implement digitization using 3D technology in the field of education for the preservation of cultural heritage. The task given to the 1st year masters students of Fashion and Textile Design at the Department of Textiles, Graphic arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana was to select a wooden sculpture and transform the visual and conceptual idea into a 3D printed jewellery collection. The curriculum of the course includes teaching the theoretical basics of 3D printing, 3D print design – fashion accessories and new production, business and marketing models as "disruptive" changes that result from this. In the practical part, students will learn the advanced design process of fashion accessory objects, including 3D technologies such as 3D modelling and 3D printing. Students are guided through a process in which selected visual and conceptual content is translated into fine jewellery that can be created using various 3D printing technologies. In this way, students tested themselves in two new areas that allowed them to expand their design knowledge and experience in 3D modelling and jewellery design with the goal of better "arming" themselves with the latest technologies for today's competitive world.

scholarly journals Personal Learning Networks as a Support for Transitioning MSc Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shona Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Personal Learning Networks ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Initial Results

This paper reflects on the lessons learned from an attempt to evaluate an online non-assessed module which was run for the first time in 2016 as part of a larger MSc Social Work module taken by 26 final year students. It uses a Real World Research Approach to consider the lessons which can be learned from research enquiry which yields an unexpected or disappointing response. The paper discusses these lessons learned from initial results in the context of literature on Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) (sometimes referred to as personal learning environments). It uses this literature to explore the context within which students might use PLNs as they transition into becoming newly qualified social workers. It concludes by suggesting that further enquiry into the role of PLNs is required with a further study planned for the next academic year.

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