Now in its sixth year, Design World’s LEAP Awards continue to showcase the best engineering innovations across several design categories. It’s a large undertaking that wouldn’t be possible without the commitment and support of the engineering community. WTWH Media is not involved with selecting the winners. Each year, the editorial team assembles OEM design engineers…

Every year, we award innovators in technology through our Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP Awards). This year’s winners were selected by an independent judging panel of 14 professionals. In the additive manufacturing category, the winners developed innovative solutions to challenging problems. While much of the news in the additive industry is focused on partnerships, […]

Designers in the sports world have been one of the quickest groups to adopt additive manufacturing technology. They’ve developed a few insights and perspectives that might be useful for engineers in other fields. David Woodlock, Application Development and Design Manager at HP, discusses a few of these insights. Designers of sports equipment need to show […]

One of the many criticisms launched at 3D printing / additive manufacturing is that there are not enough designers who know how to design for this technology.  The critics have a point.  More designers are trained on developing designs for traditional forms of manufacturing than for additive manufacturing.  This is one of the reasons a […]