This report looks at how and how often American college students use
additive manufacturing equipment, popularly known as 3D printing.  The
study gives detailed data on the percentage and kind of students who use 3D
printers in the academic library, in overall university facilities, in
their own homes, and in other domeciles – with detailed data sets for use
in each of these and other places.



The report pinpoints the extent of use, reporting minutes of use per month,
broken down by type of student, by gender, age, sexual orientation, race
and ethnicity, religión, academic major, income level, school size, tuition
level and public/private status and many other variables.



In open ended questions, students discuss how they use 3D printing on
campus and their hopes for the development and availability of the
technology at their college or university.  The study presents data on the
type of input materials preferred by students, and their overall
satisfaction level with the provision and quality of additive manufacturing
technology at their colleges and universities.



*Just a few of this 125-page report’s many findings are that:*



·         44% of students younger than age 20 have ever used a 3D printer



·         Students of Asian or Hispanic origins were far more likely than
those of other backgrounds to have used a 3D printer at their academic
library



·         11.3% of male students had ever used a 3D printer in their own
homes.



·         Students raised abroad were also much more likely than those
raised in the USA to highly value access to 3D printers – more than 27%
believed it to be very important or important.





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