BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 21 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
In the early 2010s, 3D printers were just coming into their own when Tim Liebe '16 first encountered one in Professor Christopher Williams' DREAMS Lab as a first-year mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech.
"I got to make stuff," Liebe said. "That was my appeal to engineering immediately. I'm always tinkering with things."
Liebe plugged a USB drive into the vending machine-style printer and came back a few hours later to pick up what he'd printed: a stamp for the Slusher Hall Advisory Council that said, "SHAC approved."
Advanced manufacturing and 3D printing have since become a major part of the Virginia Tech land...