Development of Standards Education 

Modules for Additive Manufacturing

Andrew Wessman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials

Science and Engineering

Hannah Budinoff, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Department of Systems 

and Industrial Engineering

Cholik Chan, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Aerospace

and Mechanical Engineering
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How can we improve the design and production of parts 

manufactured using additive manufacturing?

3D Printing + COVID Metal AM applications

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About us

Name: Hannah Budinoff Andrew Wessman Cholik Chan

Background: Department: Systems & 

Industrial Engineering

Research: Engineering 

design; makerspaces

Industry: Honeywell 

Aerospace

Teaching: Ugrad/grad 

Design for AM course

Department: Materials 

Science & Engineering

Research: Metallurgy; 

high-temp alloys

Industry: GE Additive

Teaching: Ugrad/grad 

Metal AM course

Department: Aerospace and 

Mechanical Engineering

Research: Heat transfer; 

Energy storage

Industry collaborators: 

Raytheon, Air Force 

Research Laboratory

Teaching: Ugrad/grad Intro to 

AM course

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Our overarching goal:

To prepare engineers who can utilize technical standards to 

guide their use of additive manufacturing technologies

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Our 5 specific objectives

Disseminate project results in a final summary paper to a 05 wide audience

Distribute e-learning modules to other institutions of higher 04 education with guidance for they can replicate our methods

Improve students’ ability to identify, locate, evaluate, and 03 use standards for technical problems related to AM

Deploy each of the developed modules in one or more 02 courses at UArizona

Develop 4 e-learning modules with a total of 36 hours of 01 content

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Institutional resources we’re leveraging

Office of Instruction and 

Assessment

Instructional Design Team for 

Digital Learning 

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Our e-learning modules

Based in PlayPosit

Shells designed by 

Instructional Design Team

Each module will have 

professional videos + 

activities

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External resources we’re leveraging

ASTM additive manufacturing staff

Colleagues at other universities for piloting 

materials

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Topics in our e-learning modules

Learning module focus Topics and relevant standards 

Module 1: Introduction to 

engineering standards

Topics: Standards development organizations; standard development 

process; How to identify and access standards; ASTM F42 committee

Module 2: Use of standards in the 

design-for-additive-manufacturing 

process

Topics: AM terminology; Design and data formats; AM test samples; 

GD&T; AM applications 

Relevant standards: ISO/ASTM52900-15, ISO/ASTM 52921-13; 

ISO 17296-4; ISO/ASTM 52915-13; ASME Y14.5; ISO/ASTM 

52942-20 

Module 3: Additive manufacturing 

process development

Topics: AM processes; AM feedstocks; Preparing and testing test 

specimens 

Relevant standards: F2971-13; ISO/ASTM52904-19; F3049-14 

Module 4: Testing and evaluation for 

additively manufactured parts

Topics: Mechanical properties; Requirements for purchased AM Parts 

Relevant standards: ISO/ASTM52901-16; F3302-18; F3122-14; 

ASTM A370 - 20 

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Scope of 2-year project

Modules 4 online learning modules 

Courses 3 courses across 3 departments at UArizona

People 150 students impacted in 2 yrs

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Expanding our impact

• Currently >50 AM courses at 

universities

• Contact instructors to incorporate 

our materials in their classes

• E-learning team will export modules 

to be easy to import into LMS

• Start with ASU, UC Berkeley, UTEP

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Spreading the word

• 10 page summary paper in Y2

• Feedback from industry at TMS Conference (Wessman)

• Share with engineering educators more broadly at annual conference 

for American Society for Engineering Education (Budinoff)

• Local dissemination among design faculty, COE, engineering librarian

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Working towards our overarching goal:

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To prepare engineers who can utilize technical standards to 

guide their use of additive manufacturing technologies
Thanks!

Suggestions? Questions?

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