Weber State Harnesses 3D-Printing Technology for Aerospace Support, Research

January 28, 2023

The solution for military aircraft and other equipment that needs replacement parts that aren’t in production anymore may come from an unlikely source: 3D printing.

Weber State University is using 3D-printing technology to advance its research on composite materials that support northern Utah’s aerospace and defense ecosystem. It’s all because the university’s Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center upgraded, installing the Impossible Objects Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing system, or CBAM-2.