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  <title><![CDATA[Woodruff School Student Files Provisional Patent on 3D Printed Violin]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>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.</p><p>Kamperman is a research engineer in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Division (RASD) at the <a href="https://www.gtri.gatech.edu/"><strong>Georgia Tech Research Institute</strong></a> (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 <a href="https://www.me.gatech.edu/user/1078"><strong>Carolyn Seepersad</strong></a>’s additive manufacturing (AM) class last spring.</p><p>The research was provisionally filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in December.</p><p><a href="https://www.me.gatech.edu/news/woodruff-school-student-files-provisional-patent-3d-printed-violin">Read the full story on the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering website</a>.</p>]]></body>
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