3D Printing Trip in QCC

     In December 7th of 2015, I went to a field trip to Queens Community College along with my digital design class where we learn about digital manufacturing. After the bus arrived to QCC in about 30 minutes from ITHS, we were settle in a classroom in the technology building with MD.Lawrence. He show us how to use Solid Works which is a software used for designing 3D objects. We got to try using ourselves too. By making something in 2D first, then stretch it into 3d, we created many different 3D objects on the software. We were told that 3d printing is changing many industries with its additive form of creating an object, because most of the tranditional way of manufacturing requires subtractive form that takes away parts from an created object, which may be faster, but will not be cost efficient. Something that is used to be made by multiple components can be made in one time with a 3D printer and additive manufacturing. 3D printing object are simply powders bonded by some type of glue or laser layer by layer. It was said that 3D printing is widely used in the Jewelry business where they use a support material that can be dissolved in water to create support for all different special shapes of build material.

      After our lesson about 3D printing, we were brought to another classroom and the nice staffs and faculty of QCC were very nice to provide us a nice lunch of pizza. At the same time, we were provided with a chance to talk about some of the important information to know and understand for our future careers with very intelligent and experienced people from this school. It was a nice time.