Over the past six years, students involved in the “Non-Traditional & Additive Manufacturing”
course at Utah State University have been assigned an in-depth literature review as one their
course projects. This literature review, done in groups of 2 or 3 students, involves becoming an
expert on a topic of interest to the students and then presenting this material to the class as an indepth, oral presentation in addition to writing a journal-like review article on the topic. This
project has proved to be a consistently effective method for enhancing learning of SFF
technologies and their applications, and has been consistently noted by students in their course
evaluations as a highly effective teaching tool. The methodology used for assigning and
assessing these projects will be explored, in addition to a discussion of the benefits of this project
toward meeting ABET criteria for accreditation of engineering programs.Mechanical Engineerin
