[DesktopLabs] Desktop Laboratories: Web Share and Additive Manufacture of Engineering Educational Models

Physical models are desirable in engineering education as they enhance visual literacy, provide insight into critical design failure modes and design attributes, and can be implemented in a classroom scenario in concert with multimedia displays and lecture slides. Despite the advantage, such physical models are often: not commercially available; are excessively costly; are not tailored to the intended learning outcomes; or are difficult to share across multiple geographic locations.