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Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has revolutionized the production of patient specific medical devices, permanent implants, and diagnostics. Although the COVID pandemic popularized the idea of producing medical devices such as personal protective equipment at the point of care (POC) for health care providers and patients, the field of POC additive manufacturing is rapidly expanding into patient-specific surgical instruments and permanent implants. In this course, we will study what happens “out of the box” of the 3D printer: the design process for patient-specific medical devices, including developing skills needed for hands-on medical image segmentation, device design, verification, and validation, all of which needs to happen before a device can be used at the POC.

College/Department: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science Health Systems
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit