Hello everyone,
Now into the third semester, the 3D Lab is a flurry of activity even before the engineering students begin their model rocket projects! We are thankful to the Dean to have five student assistants working in the lab as they are all busy with projects and balancing homework.
Morgan is creating Table of Elements window decals for the Chemistry Lab, designing a 3D printed “lab jack”, and creating promotional posters for the 3D Lab. Ifrah is also helping us with designing posters that highlight our best accomplishments last semester.
Dusty and Nathan are working on projects for the police department, including a bracket to mount bodycams to sunglasses. They are also designing a replacement gear for a paper shredder for a teacher. Stay tuned as we reveal the results of these endeavors.
Last Friday, Sarah Jane, Morgan, Anthony, and I went to Fairless Middle School to talk about 3D printing and careers in engineering for its annual Career Day. We presented to six classes sessions of students which made for a long but exciting day. Our sessions were so popular that teachers normally on break spent the time in our classroom instead!
Many thanks to the Romich Foundation for our portable 3D printer which has been shown to many schools, organizations, and businesses. It printed like a champ all day! Thanks, Morgan, Anthony, and Sarah Jane for assisting with the presentation. We had many excited kids, many of whom asked countless questions. This was aided by Sarah Jane passing our candy to those who answering our questions, too. 🙂
If you know of any organizations, schools, or business who would like to experience 3D printing and how Wayne College can help them, please let me know. We are always willing to make road trips if there is interest and the food is good.
We also deeply thank Debbie Muniak who worked with Akron campus to create a portable banner to promote our lab and 3D printing initiative as well as a matching table cloth. These will be used for our offsite presentations. They are beautiful!
Before Christmas break, the Romich Foundation generously donated a professional metal shearing machine. This will be used to shape metal and wood plates used in the laser engraver. The model R/C airplane club will also use the shear to form foam airplane wings and other parts. Lastly, the shear will be used to bend metal, such as making metal project enclosures. We are very thankful for this gift.
See how Derby the Dog gets to run for the first time with 3D printed prosthetics (thanks for the link, Andrew!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRmoowIN8aY
Printing with plastic isn’t the only method of 3D printing. See how a company is using paper to create multi-color 3D objects. It’s amazing!
http://mcortechnologies.com/3d-printers/iris
More news coming soon!
Tom