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University and Community First to Partner in Midwest to Utilize Innovative 3D Additive Manufacturing Technology to Explore Applications in Medical Device Manufacturing
January 17, 2019
The half-million-dollar grant from the Grand Rapids SmartZone Local Development Finance Authority will fund a two-and-a-half-year collaborative program that will address the cost and time barriers for medical device innovations entering the market. Grand Valley State University, the applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI), and medical device partner, MediSurge, will utilize groundbreaking 3D printing technology from Carbon, Inc. to create production grade parts using medical grade materials and tolerances to accelerate both the device development and the component manufacturing cycle.
More than a dozen graduate and undergraduate students from Grand Valley’s Seymour and Esther Padnos College of Engineering and Computing, along with faculty, will be joining the aMDI team, through applied research opportunities, in a real-world experiential learning environment.
The state-of-the-art Carbon 3D printer technology has been installed in aMDI’s incubator space, a world-class lab for health care and medical device startups located in Grand Valley’s Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences. With only five other universities in the nation leveraging the revolutionary Carbon 3D printing technology on campus, all of which are on the east or west coast, Grand Valley State University and the Grand Rapids SmartZone see the value in providing in-depth, hands-on learning experiences that focus on emerging industry technologies. Continue Reading