Additive manufacturing technologies are among the most rapidly developing fields of modern mechanical engineering and digital manufacturing. They enable the production of components with complex geometries directly from digital models, reducing design time, material consumption, and the cost of manufacturing prototypes.

Combined with reverse engineering technologies, additive manufacturing provides a complete digital product development cycle, from acquiring the geometry of an existing object using 3D scanning to creating a CAD model, optimizing it, and manufacturing the product through 3D printing.

Today, additive manufacturing technologies are widely applied in mechanical engineering, power engineering, instrumentation, metallurgy, the automotive industry, the production of manufacturing tooling, as well as in the fabrication of customized medical devices and prototypes. The development of these technologies is one of the key priorities within the concept of industrial digital transformation.

The Minor program enables students to acquire practical skills in digital product design, preparing digital models for additive manufacturing, selecting appropriate 3D printing technologies, assessing the quality of manufactured products, and applying reverse engineering methods for the modernization of existing designs.

Objective
To develop students' modern competencies in the fields of additive manufacturing, digital design, and reverse engineering for solving engineering problems related to the design, modernization, and manufacturing of mechanical engineering products.

Competency Map of the Specialist

Key Competencies to Be Developed

Learning Outcomes

Proficiency in modern additive manufacturing technologies;
Ability to apply reverse engineering methods in product design;
Proficiency in 3D modeling tools and the preparation of digital models for manufacturing;
Ability to select appropriate additive manufacturing technologies and materials based on the intended application of the product; Proficiency in quality control methods and analysis of products manufactured using additive manufacturing technologies.

Develop digital 3D models of parts and assemblies;
Perform reverse engineering of products using 3D scanning technologies.

Prepare digital models for additive manufacturing and select optimal printing parameters.

Use modern polymer and metal materials for additive manufacturing.

Conduct quality analysis of manufactured products and evaluate the impact of process parameters on their properties;
Apply additive manufacturing technologies in the development of new products, the production of prototypes, and manufacturing tooling.

Teachers

Kuat Kurganovich Kombaev , Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the International school of engineering
Date of last changes:
29.06.2026