This project is to introduce campus to innovative forms of 3d Printing that use sustainable materials. A part of this plan is to 3D print clay, while another part of the plan is to create an extruder system capable of incorporating the use of sawdust into the filament. This team has a considerable amount of sawdust produced in this department's fabrication lab (about 40 pounds per semester for each fab-lab), and right now the saw-dust is useless, and it has been considered as a waste. So a significant amount of the wood timbers and lumbers and plywood sheetings which are being used in the fab-lab, is just turning into waste and no one uses them anymore. In this team's research, they have found alternative routes that have used wood flour for their experiments with 3D printer and this encouraged this team to check the viability of our sawdust. 

Using sawdust as a material in 3D printers is seen as a way that will helps earn money out of them. This team can hire people during the process and add to the jobs on-campus, and also a significant amount of waste is being terminated which helps us improve the campus's sustainability. This project can also have a substantial impact on the students, providing them cheaper 3Dprinting facility which allows them to print their creative and innovative ideas just at the moment. Being a cutting-edge technology, using sawdust as a material in 3D printers will gain UIUC more reputation and honor through the US and the world as well