Lowering the cost of advanced manufacturing education

There’s hope that a new effort can make affordable the learning resources for students studying advanced manufacturing.  Clemson University, Claflin University, and Trident Technical Community College are working to lower the cost of learning through the development of licensed textbooks and digital ancillary materials on robotics.  The project is called Collaborative Development of Robotics Education and Advanced Manufacturing Open Educational Resources.  The objective is to allow students of those three institutions to save on the costs of textbooks.  Historically robotics education has lacked low cost books to use in associate, under-graduate and graduate courses.