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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe visors cover the\nface with a transparent shield, protecting the wearer from potentially\ninfectious droplets being absorbed through the face and allowing them to continue\ncrucial face-to-face work, such as healthcare and essential services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 9,000 visors have been requested\nacross Kent, and originally only eight volunteers were actively producing the\nvisors at an average production rate of seven and half per day. Through the\nUniversity\u2019s STEM Hub, the Engineering team has called out to all the STEM\ncontacts across the South East with small and large 3D printers to assist the\ncollective effort in producing the visors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This resulted in 199 volunteers registered across Kent, including Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School who are now producing over 10,000 per week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school designed, with medics, a mass manufacture solution using PET sheets made from recycled bottles. They have setup a GoFundMe page<\/a> to support the school’s production of PET sheets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Anne Nortcliffe, Head of the School of Engineering, Technology and Design, is supporting the co-ordination of visors produced by volunteers across East Kent for the local community in Kent and further afield across the UK. She is also informing local and national community producers on good health and safe practices of manufacturing the visors for medical use during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you or your business needs facial visors, if you have a 3D printer, or if wish to financially support this national effort, then please visit the 3DCrowd UK<\/a> website to support \u2019The Big Print\u2019 campaign.<\/p>
\u201cAlternatively, if you have manufacturing capabilities using laser cutting machines or have injection moulding capabilities, please get in touch with me<\/a> (anne.nortcliffe@canterbury.ac.uk)<\/a>, as we have been contributing to the mass visor manufacturing engineering solutions developed with colleagues at the University of Swansea and the University of Sheffield and local teaching hospitals.\u201d<\/p> Dr Nortcliffe <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Canterbury Christ\nChurch University\u2019s EDGE Hub follows the CDIO model for engineering education,\nwhich was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and takes an\ninnovative approach to problem-solving, preparing the next generation of engineers\nto create solutions to critical, real-world issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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