Additive Manufacturing for Sustainability

This work stimulates on the need to include sustainability topics in the existing I4.0-related curricula via dedicated educational units and evaluate the impact of such themes from the students' and educators' perspectives. A specific focus on the process followed to add a new educational unit on sustainability for the AM course at the University of Pisa is offered. The adopted methodology in accordance with CA theory is detailed. A final survey was submitted to 20 students and 4 educators to validate the implemented topics and the perceived integration between sustainability topics and I4.0.