Advanced manufacturing facilities in education and research

Strength in Advanced Manufacturing (AM) is critical to the US economy and national security, but less understood is the ecosystem of education and research foundational to AM innovation, and the facilities required to support this ecosystem. Presenters examine the planning and design of AM facilities in the context of the web of interrelationships between workforce skills training for AM, integration of AM in engineering education, and applied AM research. They illustrate facility solutions developed for multiple institutions with unique combinations of high-bay AM space, prototyping and testing resources for industry and academia, workforce training areas, multi-disciplinary research labs, and more.