{"id":122765,"date":"2021-05-21T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/3d-printed-engine-bringing-3d-printing-inside-the-worlds-largest-jet-engine"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:26","slug":"3d-printed-engine-bringing-3d-printing-inside-the-worlds-largest-jet-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/3d-printed-engine-bringing-3d-printing-inside-the-worlds-largest-jet-engine","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Engine: Bringing 3D Printing Inside The World\u2019s Largest Jet Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-engine-bringing-3d-printing-inside-the-worlds-largest-jet-engine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Learn how a young team of additive manufacturing engineers helped bring 3D printed parts to the design of the GE9X, the world\u2019s largest jet engine.<\/p>\n<p>Stefka Petkova enjoys building things. It\u2019s a passion she\u2019s had since she was a small child when her dad, an electrician who liked to work on cars, kept the door to his workshop open. \u201cI was exposed to that as a very young child and just got a lot of encouragement,\u201d says Petkova, who she spent many afternoons watching him weld and wire automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>Her childhood tinkering led her to study mechanical engineering at the University of North Florida, near America\u2019s Space Coast, where she joined the school\u2019s space club. She traveled with the club to Cocoa Beach to watch the liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2011, NASA\u2019s final flight in its Space Shuttle Program. \u201cAt the Atlantis launch, we were able to go in the overhaul facility, touch the space tiles protecting the shuttles and talk to the engineers,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 Learn how a young team of additive manufacturing engineers helped bring 3D printed parts to the design of the GE9X, the world\u2019s largest jet engine. Stefka Petkova enjoys building things. It\u2019s a passion she\u2019s had since she was a small child when her dad, an electrician who liked to work on cars, kept [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,32,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-education","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}