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Trevor Elliott makes adjustments to a 3D printer being used to make parts for heath-care workers’ face shields.<\/p><\/div>\n

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UTC is manufacturing the red piece across the top of the face shield.<\/p><\/div>\n

UTC Professor Trevor Elliott is doing a lot to combat Coronavirus in a challenging setting.<\/p>\n

In the background of a phone conversation, Elliott\u2019s three-month-old daughter is screaming like a three-month-old screams. At the same time, his three-year-old daughter is bugging him for attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, I\u2019ll pick you up,\u201d he says to the youngest one. \u201cOK, give me just a minute,\u201d he tells the older one.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about noon and his wife is at her job at TVA so with coronavirus closing the daycare center, Elliott is a stay-at-home dad taking care of the kids. At the same time, he\u2019s trying to work in his job as UC Foundation assistant professor for mechanical engineering at UTC.<\/p>\n

Right now, he\u2019s leading the University\u2019s effort on a massively important project \u2014 using 3D printers to help make face shields for local health care workers to protect them from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m usually working from about 10 at night until 3,\u201d reports Elliott, who\u2019s leading the University\u2019s effort in the project.<\/p>\n

Health care officials nationwide say there is a severe lack of medical equipment to protect doctors, nurses and others working to control the virus. Face shields are being used along with N95 respirators and\u00a0surgical masks.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, the effort to use 3D printing to make face shields stretches statewide. Along with UTC it includes the Hamilton County system STEM School at Chattanooga State Community College; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the University of Memphis, Austin Peay State University in Clarksville and<\/p>\n

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A closer look at the part that UTC is making on 3D printers.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville. Volkswagen\u2019s 16 Volkswagen eLabs also are major participants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very glad to be a part of solving and fighting the coronavirus with the expertise that we have collectively with the partners in the state; we are putting our full force contribution and supporting this effort,\u201d said Daniel Pack, dean of UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science at UTC.<\/p>\n

The job of UTC is to print a part for the face shields\u2014the piece that holds the clear, plastic facemask to the elastic band that wraps around the wearer\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

In Elliott\u2019s driveway, five 3D printers sit inside a utility trailer. With each going full speed, they can produce about 10 parts from each, or about 50 per day, he said.<\/p>\n

But along with the printing, more than 30 UTC seniors in mechanical engineering are working on creative ways to make respirators and ventilators using off-the-shelf products, Elliott said. They also are figuring out how to design a version of filtration devices like the N95 mask to fit smaller faces, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re designing them from scratch.”<\/p>\n

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