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  • Two years ago, I was working in a human performance lab that was gathering data on neuromuscular activity from patients after chemo treatments. The focus of the research was to see how chemotherapy from breast cancer survivors has affected neuromuscular activity. While working in this lab I realized the 3D printing trend which was occurring also within NJITs biomedical engineering labs. I mainly worked on designing and building force sensor cases for ankle and wrist flexion testing. Instead of sending the designs to a vendor to print, I would 3D-print the models using the creo parametric software and MakerBot printer. Not only would I 3D print for the human performance lab, but also within Dr. Foulds lab at NJIT. I worked on creating a 7 degree of freedom controller for the iARM within Dr. Fould’s lab. Initially, the plan was to give our designs to the machinist at NJIT to build the controller but instead I was able to print all the components using the 3D printers in the BME department. 3D printing components within research laborites has been on the rise because it saves a tremendous amount of time and money.