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Fairfield's Sacred Heart Procures 3D Printer For Business School

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Sacred Heart University’s in Fairfield recently purchased a 3D printer for professors and students in its John F. Welch College of Business to use as a tool of innovation in classrooms and for academic projects.

Sacred Heart University students check out the 3D printer at the school.

Sacred Heart University students check out the 3D printer at the school.

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The printer is a U.S.-made MakerBot Replicator 2 that features an 11-by-6-by-6-inch build volume and 100-micron layer resolution. It was purchased over the summer and is housed in the Ryan Matura Library to keep it easily accessible to all departments.

“Being able to bring this kind of cutting-edge technology into Sacred Heart is exactly what our educational mission encompasses—the idea that we can give our students access to and experience with the tools and skills that this generation of young adults will use in their careers,” John Chalykoff, dean of the College of Business said in a statement.

The idea for buying the printer came from Enda McGovern, associate professor of marketing and sport management, who is implementing the technology into his marketing principles course this fall. His students will use the printer to make prototype, demo and proof-of-concept models of products they are creating as a part of a semester-long project.

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