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Rapid Prototype Research and Academia
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama does research on almost all existing Rapid Prototyping systems.
The Product Assurance Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California operates an SLS 2500 and an Actua 2100.
Direct Fabrication Department at Sandia National Laboratories.
Tele-Manufacturing: Rapid Prototyping on the Internet - an ongoing research and development project at the University of California at San Diego.
Clemson University's Research in Engineering Design and Optimization.
The Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
The Shape Deposition Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication at the University of Texas at Austin.
Three dimensional printing a process developed at MIT. Specific Surface Corporation of Franklin, Massachussetts is one of the licensees of this technology.
Rapid Thermal Prototyping at Tufts University.
The University of Hong Kong.
Delcam International headquartered in Birmingham, England is a partner in the Computer Aided Rapid Prototyping (CARP) research project.
University of Connecticut at Storrs is involved in the development of the Selective Area Laser Deposition process.
Case Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio conducts research on CAM-LEM (Computer Aided Manufacturing of Laminated Engineering Materials) and related processes.
Centre for Rapid Design and Manufacture at the Buckinghamshire College in Buckinghamshire, England.
Ceramic Composites Inc. of Annapolis, Maryland is involved in the development of stereolithography and laminated object manufacturing techniques using metals and ceramics.
Bremen Institute for Industrial Technology in Bremen, Germany.
Royal Institute of Technology does SLS oriented research in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute at Georgia Tech.
The Manufacturing Technology Laboratory at General Electric Research and Development is on the leading edge of Rapid Prototyping Technology.
The CAD/CAM Laboratory at the University of Michigan does reseach involving Layered Manufacturing and is equipped with Stratasys FDM equipment.
The Rapid Prototyping Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin does research involving the SLA, LOM and FDM processes.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven does research involving SLA and 3D plotting.
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology is developing a rapid metal prototyping system in Germany.
The Rapid Manufacturing laboratory at The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
The Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems at the University of Patras in Patras, Greece conducts research involving SLA, FDM, and LOM.
Arizona State University's PRISM (Partnership for Research In Stereo Modeling) conducts FDM-based research in Tempe, Arizona.
Arcam AB of Gothenburg, Sweden is developing a metal sintering Rapid Prototyping technology patented as "CAD-to-metal".
The Laboratory of Rapid Product Development at Wroclaw University of Technology in Wroclaw, Poland operates an SLA 250-50.
Rapid Freeze Prototyping - water deposition process in a freeze chamber - a research project conducted by the Virtual & Rapid Prototyping Lab at the University of Missouri, in Rolla, Missouri.
The W.M. Keck Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Lab at the University of Pittsburg in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania operates an SLA 250-30, an FDM 2000, and an Actua 2100.
The Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing at Southern Methodist University in Richardson, Texas does research involving welding deposition based rapid prototyping processes.
The Learning Factory at Penn State operates Helysis LOM 1015 and Stratasys FDM-2000 machines.
Many of the links on this page were compiled by Andrei Novac, former graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, former member of the Rapid Prototyping Research Group lead by Dr. Charles L. Thomas.
Please visit his rapid prototyping site.
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