3DCoE – 3D Center of Excellence

Welcome to the 3D Center of Excellence

Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by Jackson Moreland

“Bringing Opportunity and Innovation to America’s Workforce” Welcome to the 3D Center of Excellence. Founded in Detroit, our mission is to provide education and opportunity to all people in the fields of 3D Printing and beyond. 3D Printing and its applied form Additive Manufacturing are rapidly becoming the dominant force in equipment manufacturing, in the United States and around the globe. With the rise of these new technologies, there is also an abundance of opportunities…

Global 3D & 4D Technology Market to Grow at a CAGR of +12% by 2022 According to new research

Posted on May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by Al Ranger

Global Industry Trends, Growth, Share, Size and Forecasts to 2022 According to New Research 3D (three Global Industry Trends, Growth, Share, Size and Forecasts to 2022 According to New Researchdimensional) technology has emerged as a technology that is being used in animation films, motion pictures, displays, imaging, and other products; which have finally extended to the other functions such as three-dimensional modeling, designing, and rapid prototyping. 3D technology provides illusion effects of depth perception; and…

U of M launches 3D printed orthotics program

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Katylin Jane

Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) are implementing a new orthotics and prosthetics outfitting system: 3D printed assistive devices that will be customized to individual patients’ needs and reach them faster than ever before. Engineers and clinicians at the UM College of Engineering and Orthotics and Prosthetics Center say their new cyber manufacturing system is a vast improvement over traditional production methods. Currently, assistive device users must wait days or even weeks for essential…

3D printing printing for cranial reconstruction

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Katylin Jane

Back in 2013, Oxford Performance Materials’ biomedical division got FDA clearance for the first 3D polymeric implant for cranial reconstruction. A year later it won clearance for its 3D printed facial device. What makes them unique is that they are patient-specific. In fact, OPM Biomedical is the first and only company to receive FDA 510(k) clearance for 3D printed patient-specific polymeric implants and has a total of four 510 (k) clearances. In doing so, the…

Young architects in Michigan lead with ArcStart: BTN LiveBIG

Posted on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 by Al Ranger

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Budding young architects get a chance to kick start their dreams and take the first step towards building their future at the University of Michigan’s ArcStart summer program. Run by the university’s renowned Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, ArcStart offers high school students the opportunity to take college-level classes in design, drafting, modeling and other related areas while living on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus…

The hottest trend in 3D printing: shoes on demand

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Amy Banks

The future of running shoes is changing. Photo: iStock 3D printing has long been seen as a tool for making small tools for personal use but some large retailers and smaller-scale businesses have started to delve into using 3D printing for mass-market distribution of customised products. For their first products, they’ve started on the ground level – literally. Some companies are talking about the possibility of having insoles, or even entire shoes, printed from stores or…

Dr. Antonio Bernardo Receives GEI Award

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

New York – he was held on December 9 at the Star Room of the restaurant Le Cirque in Manhattan breakfast organized by GEI in honor of Dr. Antonio Bernardo, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Laboratory for Innovative Surgery Microsurgery of the skull Weill Cornell Medical College. The GEI, Italian Representatives Group, for years combines the most authoritative representatives of Italian companies in America, and this time wanted to reward with “GEI…

STEM program being pioneered in Michigan by Grass Lake elementary students

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

GRASS LAKE, MI – Joey Cabana placed two wires into pegs on a circuit board. After some code tweaking, a small, blue light began to glow, seemingly in sync with the excitement that lit up the 10-year-old’s eyes. This LED light experiment is part of George Long Elementary School’s latest program focused on STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math subjects. STEM teacher Mike Arbuckle has brought these science and engineering-focused programs into George Long classrooms. Arbuckle…

Sumter Students Use 3D Printer to Create Prosthetic Hands

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

Sumter, SC (WLTX) — In just a few hours, students at Alice Drive Middle School in Sumter are changing strangers lives forever. The STEM Certified school was granted a 3D printer last year. Rather than use it to make items for themselves to enjoy, Library Media Specialist Elma Strong chose to partner with the nonprofit E-Nable and start making prosthetic hands. “When I first heard about it, it just gives you the feeling, a great…

Virtual reality, 3D printing among innovations changing medical treatment

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

Michael Peirone, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Victoria, displays a 3D printed hand that engineers have produced for amputees in developing countries, during the inaugural B.C. Tech Summit in Vancouver, B.C., on January 18, 2016. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press) VANCOUVER — Virtual reality could be the next instrument in a hospital’s arsenal of cost-fighting tools as nurse teams demo a surgery simulator that makes training feel like a video…

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