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						2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]   
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                  TDP 250 - Industrial Projects for 3-D Printing  Description: Designing, modeling, and producing 3-D printed parts. Includes rapid prototyping to traditional large-scale production, operating scanners, processing scan data with software tools, and converting scan data to printable 3-D models. Exploration of the entire cycle from an original artifact to a scan-based model reproduction.
  Credits: 4 Lecture: 3 Lab: 3
  Course Content:  
	- Relationships between chemical structure, manufacturing process parameters, and material properties
 
	- Appropriate material for a given design and manufacturing process
 
	- Types of 3-D scanning technology
 
	- 3-D models creation scan data
 
	- Scan-based reverse engineering projects
 
	- Part inspection techniques
 
  Learning Outcomes:  
	- Evaluate software requirements for 3-D scanning applications. (3)
 
	- Evaluate hardware requirements for 3-D scanning applications.  (3)
 
	- Describe the theory of operation and identify hardware components in a variety of 3-D printing equipment. (1,2)
 
	- Operate, and perform basic troubleshooting on, 3-D printing and scanning equipment. (3-5)
 
	- Apply software tools and design principles to create, modify, and process CAD models suitable for additive manufacturing. (3-5)
 
	- Explain the role of additive technologies in commercial activities, from product development to production.  (1,2)
 
	- Plan additive manufacturing projects, including considerations of part requirements, material properties, cost, process selection, and post-processing. (5,6)
 
  
				  
 
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