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S U M M E R U O F L M A G A Z I N E | 3 9 A C R O S S C A M P U S Crushing some crustaceans Hundreds attended the 30th Annual Student Activities Board and Red Barn Alumni Association Crawfi sh Boil held Friday, April 17, at the Red Barn. The event raised money for Red Barn scholarships. J.B. SPEED SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Speed School institute adds train- ing center, student micro-factory The J.B. Speed School of Engineering's Institute for Product Realization (IPR) continues to grow with plans for an additive manufacturing training center and the addition of a "learning micro- factory" for student use. Plans call for the training center — a partnership with UL, the Northbrook, Illinois- based global science safety company — to open this fall on the University of Louisville's Belknap Campus. The UL Additive Manufacturing Compe- tency Center (UL AMCC) will train engineers and other professionals from around the world on sophisticated 3-D printing and advanced manufac- turing machinery. The UL AMCC will offer hands-on training in additive manufactur- ing, focusing on metals. Curriculum will cover design set-up and corrections, machine assembly, parts produc- tion, inspection, testing and validation. The center will be located on Arthur Street in the IPR complex. Its neighbors will be the FirstBuild micro-factory, a partnership among UofL, General Electric and Arizona-based Local Motors, and another new venture — the Engineer- ing Education Garage, EEG, which houses space for student projects. The 15,000-square- foot EEG has off ces, two classrooms and four "cages" where student groups, such as UofL's stu- dent rocket launch team, work on their projects. The student micro- factory functions as a learning laboratory where university faculty and students, as well as young- er children in kindergar- ten through high school, can work on assignments and further their studies of engineering and manufacturing. The EEG also has state- of-the-art equipment and amenities that FirstBuild doesn't have, such as welding and paint shops. And it has 3-D printing machines to complement those the university has at the Speed School's Rapid Prototyping Center. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Big gift = big impact Many K-12 school systems struggle to give teachers specialized training to help students with learning disabilities. A recent gift to the College of Education and Human Development provides $1.2 million in federal funding to encourage more CEHD graduates to become certif ed to teach students with disabilities. The grant will pay two years of tuition for students who earn dual certif cation in elementary education and moderate/severe intellectual disabilities. Up to 30 students per year can take part in the program, which is expected to greatly boost the pipeline of teachers trained to teach at-risk students. Recent gifts to the CEHD will help Louisville-area schools, such as J. B. Atkinson Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, one of the university's Signature Partnership schools. President James Ramsey, shown here with students from Atkinson, typically visits the school several times each year. President James Ramsey (right) congratulated Keith Williams, CEO of UL (formally Underwriters Laboratories), after the two signed an agreement creating the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center. The announcement of the center, which will train workers on 3-D printers and other machinery, was attended by state and local government leaders and other offi cials.