#Working3D: Six Questions for a Manufacturing Engineer

Additive manufacturing has become an important part of the manufacturing industry. With its numerous applications, 3D printing encompasses a wide range of disciplines and therefore also has given rise to a variety of different professions. Indeed, in our Working 3D series, we want to delve into different jobs in 3D printing, how they work and the qualifications. We have already learned about what it takes to be a pre-sales engineer, an R&D engineer and a human resources management specialist. Now we would like to give you an insight into another profession in the 3D printing market through an interview with Eik Brüser, a manufacturing engineer specializing in additive manufacturing at Deutsche Bahn.

3DN: Could you briefly introduce yourself?

Hello, my name is Eik Brüser, I am 32 years old and I work as a manufacturing engineer working in 3D printing at Deutsche Bahn (the German national rail service) in Nuremberg.

3DN: How did you discover additive manufacturing?

Eik Brüser

Parallel to my master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the TU Berlin, I worked as a student trainee at a large German technology company. The head of the R&D department at the time advised me to focus on a broad range of disciplines in the future rather than specializing even further as a calculation engineer. So, in addition to taking a course in rail vehicle technology, I also took a course in additive manufacturing at my university and was immediately hooked on 3D printing. Later, when the pandemic broke out and the lockdown closed the university and its workshops and labs to students, I bought a cheap 3D printer, dug deeper into the subject and built myself a reliable and larger 3D printer to make prototypes for my studies at home.