Development of Standards Education 

Modules for Additive Manufacturing

Hannah Budinoff, Ph.D

Assistant Professor 

Department of Systems 

and Industrial Engineering

Andrew Wessman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

Department of Materials 

Science and Engineering

Cholik Chan, Ph.D.

Professor 

Department of Aerospace 

and Mechanical Engineering
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:

Background:

Hannah Budinoff

Department: Systems & 

Industrial Engineering 

Research: Engineering 

design; makerspaces 

Industry: Honeywell 

Aerospace

Teaching: Ugrad/grad 

Design for AM course

Andrew Wessman

Department: Materials 

Science & Engineering 

Research: Metallurgy; 

high-temp alloys 

Industry: GE Additive 

Teaching: Ugrad/grad 

Metal AM course

Cholik Chan

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

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

content

Deploy each of the developed modules in one or more 

courses at UArizona

Improve students’ ability to identify, locate, evaluate, and 

use standards for technical problems related to AM

Distribute e-learning modules to other institutions of higher 

education with guidance for they can replicate our methods

Disseminate project results in a final summary paper to a 

wide audience

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Institutional resources we’re leveraging

Office of Instruction and 

Assessment

Instructional Design Team for 

Digital Learning

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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; Requirementsfor purchased AM Parts 

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

ASTM A370 - 20

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Our learning module format
Scope of 2-year project

Modules 

Courses 

People

4 online learning modules

3 courses across 3 departments at UArizona

150 students impacted in 2 yrs

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Early results are promising

Improvements in % of students’ who feel confident in identifying and 

using standards from pre-test to post-test

• I feel that I can define what a technical standard is 

(Pre: 37% Post: 77%)

• I feel that I can locate technical standards in online databases 

(Pre: 33% Post: 73%)

• I feel that I can determine what type of technical standard to 

use as I conduct engineering work

(Pre: 36% Post: 59%)

• I feel confident that I can utilize technical standards as I conduct 

engineering work

(Pre: 44% Post: 68%)
Comments give us ideas for improvement

• “The best activities were the interactive videos and quizzes.”

• "Even though the material is necessary and every engineer will use 

standards, it is a bit dry to dive into.”

• “Honestly, I like short readings (1-8 pages), after that it starts 

getting harder to retain the information”

•“ I liked the case studies from Monday the most since it was a 

real-world problem and it had me thinking about what standards 

could be applied to solve it- I looked at the COVID mask one.”
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 2023 (Budinoff)

• Local dissemination among design faculty, COE, engineering librarian

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Thanks! 

Suggestions? Questions?