Case Study: A. James Clark School of Engineering achieves campus-wide hands-on 3D prototyping with MakerBot

A. James Clark School of Engineering - Customer Case Study

A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland needed to give students practical, hands-on experience in turning ideas into prototypes because many incoming students lacked shop or drafting skills. To close that gap, the school integrated MakerBot desktop 3D printing—specifically MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers—into its required Introduction to Engineering Design course.

MakerBot deployed Replicator printers across course sections in 2014 and the Clark School then built a MakerBot Innovation Center equipped with 50 MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers; roughly 1,200 Maryland students learn to 3D print each year. Paired with Stratasys industrial printers in the Rapid Prototyping Lab, MakerBot’s implementation sped iterative prototyping, expanded campus-wide access to fabrication, and supported the Startup Shell ecosystem that helped launch more than 50 companies in its first three years.

A. James Clark School of Engineering

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