The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
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Step into the future of product development
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February 15, 2024
8 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week
Our participants tell us that taking this program together with their colleagues helps to share common language and accelerate impact.
We hope you find the same. Special pricing is available for groups.
The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistConsider how your company brings a product to market. Then imagine if you could make the process more efficient and less expensive. Rapid prototyping allows you to do just that. By quickly transforming ideas into hyperrealistic models, you can fine-tune physical products to customer requirements and create efficiencies that yield an enduring competitive advantage.
This program provides a comprehensive introduction to the applications of rapid prototyping technology, giving you the knowledge to answer questions such as:
How do I develop a prototype that emulates the look, feel, and function of a desired product?
How do I identify the most efficient manufacturing process?
How can rapid prototyping help me decrease costs, improve quality, and innovate for the future?
The Value of Rapid Prototyping
Potential reduction in design-to-production timeline
Potential cost savings for prototypes
Product managers and designers seeking to make design and fabrication decisions that will lead to more efficient product development
Business leaders and functional heads interested in using prototyping to refine product concepts and optimize resource allocation
Product engineers responsible for exploring, revising, and validating prototype concepts
Capstone project
Case studies
Assignments
Discussions
Interactive try-it activities
Workbook activities
Polls and quizzes
Learn the essentials of rapid prototyping and understand the benefits it brings to the engineering design process.
Discover the importance of developing a concept prototype (CP), including estimating costs and identifying design errors.
Explore the characteristics of different manufacturing processes, and understand the benefits and drawbacks of various types of fabrication.
Dive deeper into parallel fabrication, and learn to select the best process for a given scenario.
Explore the fundamentals of creating a prototyping plan and learn to make strategic decisions for rapid prototyping.
Learn to develop a hypothesis for an idea, perform a concept test, and analyze the results.
Discover how to leverage rapid prototyping to reduce costs and improve quality.
Examine the future of machine learning in the context of rapid prototyping, and discover the importance of rapid prototyping in medical research, health, and welfare. Then, see how 3D printing is used in the rapid prototype manufacturing process.
Learn the essentials of rapid prototyping and understand the benefits it brings to the engineering design process.
Explore the fundamentals of creating a prototyping plan and learn to make strategic decisions for rapid prototyping.
Discover the importance of developing a concept prototype (CP), including estimating costs and identifying design errors.
Learn to develop a hypothesis for an idea, perform a concept test, and analyze the results.
Explore the characteristics of different manufacturing processes, and understand the benefits and drawbacks of various types of fabrication.
Discover how to leverage rapid prototyping to reduce costs and improve quality.
Dive deeper into parallel fabrication, and learn to select the best process for a given scenario.
Examine the future of machine learning in the context of rapid prototyping, and discover the importance of rapid prototyping in medical research, health, and welfare. Then, see how 3D printing is used in the rapid prototype manufacturing process.
Martin Culpepper
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT
Professor Culpepper’s research concentrates on the invention, design, and fabrication of high-performance machine systems. He focuses on inventing new technologies in areas wherein conventional technology is insufficient or impracticable, in addition to advances in machines/machine systems that: - Make (e.g., manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and fixturing); - Move (e.g., robotics, motion stages, and mechanisms); or - Measure (e.g., instrumentation and telescopes).
His mentoring (graduate students and undergraduate teaching) is based upon the philosophy that becoming a great engineer means learning to meld invention, engineering common sense, and engineering science with practical fabrication/measurement skills to create parts/products/systems that solve real problems.
Prof. Culpepper is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), two R&D 100 Awards, a TR100 award, and a Joel and Ruth Spira Teaching Award, and he is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Guest speakers comment on their career paths, advice for entry-level learners, various prototyping issues, and themes that arise in their professional roles.
Faez Ahmad
Elazer Edelman
Amos Winter
John Hart
Get recognized! Upon successful completion of this program, MIT xPRO grants a certificate of completion to participants and four Continuing Education Units (CEUs). This program is graded as a pass or fail; participants must receive 75% to pass and obtain the certificate of completion.
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