University/Laboratory R & D Programs

From: Douglas vanPutte (Eastman Kodak  Company)
To: RP-ML
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 1994
Subject: University/Laboratory R & D Programs
My thanks to all of you who responded to my note requesting information on the
rp of die cast parts. I have another request...

I recently wrote a Kodak document which included, among other things, a list of
the university and government labs (U.S.) which were involved in some aspects
of rapid prototyping or rapid tooling technology development. The list includes
those applying the technology as well as inventing or enhancing it. Here is my
list:

There are programs at MIT, University of Dayton, University of Illinois,
Clemson University, University of Texas, Carnegie Mellon, University of
Southern California, Rensselar, the Fraunhofer -Institute (Germany), University
of Nottingham (UK), Leeds University (UK), University of Tokyo (Japan), Osaka
Sanyo University (Japan), the National University of Sinapore, Helsinki
University of Technology (Finland), Danish Technological Institute of
Technology, and the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium).

My list is not complete. Who have I missed? I can tell you a lot about a few,
a little about a few more, and very little about most.

I also know that there is a program at Sandia Labs because of Clint Atwood's
papers, and a program at Los Alamos because of an interest group to which I
belong.

I would like to be able to access a listing of these university and lab
programs and find a paragraph describing each program and a contact to obtain
more information. Is this a worthwhile project? Is rp-ml the place for this
information? It would be a means for the program owners to advertise their
existance and a means for a company person like myself to find out which
programs may be of interest to my company. The listing could be updated as
needed by the owners, so the information would always be current.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Regards,
Doug VanPutte