#UHartInspires: CETA Faculty Print 3D Face Shields for Health-Care Workers

In response to a shortage of PPE (personal protection equipment) for health-care workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nine College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) team members joined forces to 3D print, assemble, and pack for delivery 100 highly coveted face covers for local health professionals.

The group reached out to CETA Dean Hisham Alnajjar asking to use CETA’s 3D printers to make face covers for health care workers who do not have an adequate supply. Alnajjar readily agreed. That set into motion a team project that was complicated by the need to comply with social distancing guidelines, but completed in a two-week time span.

CETA faculty participants were Mary (Cater) Arico, assistant professor of biomedical engineering; Takafumi Asaki, assistant professor of biomedical engineering; Claudio Campana, applied assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Julie Chen, adjunct professor of architecture and woodshop and digital fabrication lab manager; Edward Diehl, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Enrico Obst, visiting assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Stephen Smith, adjunct professor of architecture; and Kiwon Sohn, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Allison Poulin, office coordinator for the dean’s office, provided materials support.

Read the entire production story and see video and photos here.

Thank you CETA faculty and staff for your commitment to finding a way to help and putting in the time and effort to provide PPE for local health professionals as the fights to help COVID-19 patients.

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