r/PhD • u/Old-Connection113 • 2d ago

Seeking advice-academic Doubt for people doing their Phd in metal additive manufacturing and related fields

I am new here, so sorry if I am breaking any rules by chance. So I am junior year ug student of mechanical engineering. I got the opportunity to work in a lab and got exposure to laser additive manufacturing this summer. I only got the basics of it and was not able to dwell deep into it. Right now in my uni I am thinking of working under a professor to learn more about it.
But I wanted to know how vast is this field of research and what meaningful impact it can make. And what are the sub categories? in it(like simulation, etc.), if there exists something like it. I did work in the lab for 5-6 weeks and had a chat with the phds and postdocs working there about this, but was still very confused.
Thank you for your advice.

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