Mastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab

© Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron 2018

Joan Horvath and Rich CameronMastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Labhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3501-0_14

14. Community and Careers

Joan Horvath¹  and Rich Cameron¹

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Nonscriptum LLC, Pasadena, CA, USA

 

We are often asked what types of 3D printing–related jobs will be available in the future. Since it is pretty challenging to predict where the industry will go in the next couple of years, much less in a decade or two, any attempt to answer should be taken with a large grain of salt. Any 3D printer that a student uses now will have very little resemblance to an industrial printer used for metal parts. However, the skill of being able to envision something, create a computer model of it, and ...