Description
There are a wide range of different interactions between ‘science and the public’. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in the technique of therapeutic cloning, to attending a protest meeting about plans to build a waste disposal unit near to a residential area. Some such interactions are largely one-way; being a member of the audience for a ‘go-hear’ lecture, visiting a museum or‘‘listening-in’ on the workings of a policy-making committee. However revealing an experience, such events very often the public as a largely passive recipient of information. This course looks at more active forms of involvement by the public; how is the public voice heard and understood? What is public involvement of this type for and is the outcome in some way ‘better’ than traditional methods of policy making?
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of manufacturing techniques that rely on the addition of material to form a new component or addition of some material to an existing component. It is a rapidly developing field of processing. Attention-grabbing innovations appear regularly in the media and there is a great deal of excitement about the possibilities that additive manufacturing opens up for new ways of making products.
In this free course, Additive manufacturing, you will see how product designs are captured digitally in ways that allow the product to be created by depositing material incrementally. You will be introduced to the principles that underpin additive manufacturing so that you are equipped to make sense of future developments in this field and to decide when or if AM is a viable manufacturing approach for a given product.
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