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The Additive Manufacturing Certificate Program is 100% online, providing you the flexibility to learn at your own pace and obtain fundamental AM knowledge and skills to apply to your projects and advance your career. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and The Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA) offer the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Certificate Program to give working professionals and students an opportunity to stay current with rapidly growing AM technologies.
The program consists of four, self-paced courses: AM Essentials, AM Technology and Materials, AM Design, and Business & Economics (8.0 CEUs). The program is designed to provide professionals and/or students with fundamental knowledge of AM with an additional focus on design principles that can immediately applied to careers and projects.
Course 1: AM Essentials
Discover AM in our Additive Manufacturing Essentials course. You will learn the basic steps in each key AM process as defined by ASTM F42, review real-world applications of AM and categorize material types.
Learning Objectives
- Define commonly used additive manufacturing terms
- List various industries that use additive manufacturing
- Explain basic steps in each key additive manufacturing process
- Categorize material types used in additive manufacturing
- Distinguish advantages of AM over traditional manufacturing
- Identify good part candidates
- Discuss impact of process and material selection in decision making
- List examples of real-world applications
- Describe workflow and tools required to turn a concept into a part
Course 2: AM Technology and Materials
This course provides a more detailed review of the standard AM processes, breaking down how layers are made, how energy is applied, and materials used. This includes technical and commercial capabilities and limitation considerations.
Learning Objectives
- Define additive manufacturing processes per ASTM F42
- Describe additive manufacturing technology capabilities
- Define commonly used additive manufacturing materials
- List the advantages and disadvantages of each process
- Discuss technical and commercial considerations of each process
Course 3: AM Design
This is an advanced course focused on Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM). Students will learn to distinguish between AM design innovation and AM design mitigation techniques.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss in detail the digital process steps of AM design workflow
- Define AM design considerations
- Weigh factors across additive manufacturing processes to achieve specific design goals
- Apply additive manufacturing design principles to standard design features
- List disruptive design techniques made possible by additive manufacturing
- List design innovation and design mitigation techniques and tools
Course 4: AM Business and Economics
This course focuses on forming a business case for additive manufacturing. Learners will identify cost drivers to create opportunities for cost savings in additive manufacturing and to develop core additive manufacturing industrialization strategies.
Learning Objectives
- Develop a business case for additive manufacturing
- Identify business considerations and cost drivers
- Discuss capital expenditures vs outsourcing considerations
- Identify business savings sustained by use of additive manufacturing
- Discuss benefits of rapid prototyping
- Distinguish between additive manufacturing for prototyping