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Design for Additive Manufacturing
Last Updated: 2026-06-03 00:07:39
Abstract
This course focuses on the design, manufacture and testing of components produced using additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.The course includes a project based on a real-world challenges where students design, fabricate and iteratively optimize functional AM parts using an appropriate AM technology.
Objective
This course provides a basic knowledge of design for additive manufacturing (AM). The course will prepare students to - Apply basic AM processes (metal and plastic) - Apply AM design guidelines - Adopt AM in an industrial environment - Apply design tools and methods in AM - Create value from AM - Work in a project based product development team
Content
In parallel to the lectures, the students design, manufacture and test prototypes in a project at different stages of product development. The course covers the following topics: - State-of-the-art AM processes for metals and plastics: PBF (also known as SLM, SLS), BJT, MJF, MEX (FDM) - Design guidelines in AM - Industrial adoption of AM - Value creation and business models for AM - Design tools and methodologies for AM - Quality management in AM - Industrial cases of AM applications - Problem solving and creativity - Agile development
Resources
Lecture Notes
Script and handouts are available in PDF-format.
Literature
Christoph Klahn; Mirko Meboldt: Entwicklung und Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung - Grundlagen und Methoden für den Einsatz in industriellen Endkundenprodukten Vogel Business Media, Würzburg ISBN: 978-3-8343-3395-7 Ian Gibson; David Rosen; Brent Stucker: Additive manufacturing technologies - 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and direct digital manufacturing Springer, New York ISBN: 978-1-4939-2112-6
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- DR , MSC
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- graded semester performance
Registration & Places
- Signup End
- 02.09.2026
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture with exercise |
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Does not take place this semester.
The course will not be offered in HS26 and will instead take place in FS27.
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No time listed | 2 h weekly |
Offered In
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Core Courses (The Core Courses in the Master’s program Mechanical Engineering listed below are indicative and include courses designed by the Department at the Master's level. With the approval of the tutor, students may also select Master's-level courses offered by other departments at ETH. These courses will be marked as non-regular in the LAG, but their categorization as Core Courses is possible if included in the approved LAG.)
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Doctorate Materials Science (Further information at: )
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