Merging a love for engineering with a lifelong passion for music led Kevin Kamperman, a graduate student in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, to fulfill a lifelong dream of filing a patent on a fully functioning acoustic violin made completely from 3D printing.

Kamperman is a research engineer in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Division (RASD) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). He and a team of Woodruff School students, including William Davis, Inseo Grace Park, Gihane Rachid, and Lars Worlund, designed and fabricated the violin as a final project in Woodruff Professor Carolyn Seepersad’s additive manufacturing (AM) class last spring.

The research was provisionally filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in December.

Read the full story on the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering website.