Affordable Fiber Extrusion Device for Educational Purposes: Design Improvements, Controls Development, and Manufacturing Scale-up

The Fiber Extrusion Device (FrED) is an affordable desktop tool intended for engineering education. It mimics the fiber draw process, allowing students to study topics such as data acquisition, control systems, computer vision, data analytics, and smart manufacturing. As an educational tool, the goa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Yiqian
Other Authors: Anthony, Brian W.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157159