New IAM3D Challenge Introduces University Students to 3D Design and Printing Skills

New IAM3D Challenge Introduces University Students to 3D Design and Printing Skills New IAM3D Challenge Introduces University Students to 3D Design and Printing Skills IAM3D Challenge Introduces University Students to 3D Design and Printing Skills ASME has launched a competition, the ASME Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D (IAM3D) Challenge, which is intended to help provide undergraduate engineering students with the 3D design and printing skills they'll need when they enter the workforce, while competing for $10,000 in prizes. To take part in the competition, which is open to mechanical and multi-disciplinary engineering undergraduate students around the world, students are asked to either re-engineer existing products or create new designs that minimize energy consumption or improve energy efficiency. A panel of judges will evaluate the student teams on how their designs demonstrate ingenuity, the application of sound engineering design principles, and the leveraging of additive manufacturing technology to address a broad spectrum of industrial, manufacturing, and humanitarian challenges. Working prototypes of the top 30 designs will be printed to their submitted design specifications and the students who designed them will be invited to the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Montreal, Canada, where they will present their designs and business case to the judging panel. The Challenge's 30 semi-finalists will be announced by Aug. 31. A $2,000 top prize will be awarded in five categories: best overall design; best innovation; best re-engineered/multi-disciplinary, collaboratively designed product; best freshman design; and best verbal presentation. Other prizes include $5,000 honoraria for team faculty member advisors and travel subsidies for semi-finalists to attend the final round of the contest at the 2014 Congress. Individual students or teams of up to three students are invited to register for the IAM3D Challenge, at http://go.asme.org/IAM3D, until May 1, 2014. Each team must have a faculty member advisor recommend its project. There is no limit to the number of entries per university, however. For more information on the ASME Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D Challenge, visit http://go.asme.org/IAM3D.