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As the world grapples with a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, Houston Community College<\/a> has mobilized its legion of 3D printers to meet the need in Houston.<\/p>\n

The project began when local nonprofit TX\/RX Labs<\/a>, a makerspace focused on innovation and education, began producing face shields for the Memorial Hermann Health System when PPE supplies began running low. When HCC officials learned of these efforts, they knew they could offer help through the college’s\u00a0IDEAStudio at the West Houston Institute<\/a> and the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence at HCC\u2019s Stafford Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust between those two locations we have more than 60 3D printers,\u201d said Kurt Ewen, Ph.D., HCC’s vice chancellor of strategy, planning & institutional effectiveness. \u201cThe really exciting part is that this has already expanded, so San Jacinto College<\/a>, HISD<\/a> and Alief ISD<\/a> are now working with us in this project. We\u2019re going to be close to double the capacity that HCC brought to the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Originally, the collaboration hoped to create as many as 30,000 face shields a day. That was a miscalculation, Ewen said, but production still will be significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to be able to supply a tremendous amount of the face shields that are needed,\u201d he said, adding that production requires minimal manpower\u2014a plus when Harris County and the City of Houston are encouraging individuals to stay home. Even more, TX\/RX Labs has shared its\u00a0design specifications<\/a> for the face shields, enabling individuals or organizations with access to a 3D printer to join the effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re inviting the community to consider engaging in this work with us and saying, \u2018If you have a machine at home and you can print five a week, awesome,\u2019\u201d Ewen said.<\/p>\n

“Essential critical infrastructure”<\/h5>\n

On March 26, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo<\/a> approved a waiver that allowed HCC to operate as \u201cessential critical infrastructure\u201d\u2014part of the Stay Home, Work Safe<\/a> order\u2014for the purpose of producing mass quantities of protective face shields to support area medical facilities including Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center<\/a>, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center<\/a> and Baylor College of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Judge Hidalgo said that medical workers were on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and needed protection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are extraordinary times that require all of us to think creatively and offer up our resources, and I commend HCC for seeing this as an opportunity to help our hospital system fill a critical need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

HCC’s 3D printers are capable of producing only part of the face shield\u2014what Ewen described as the “brackets,” or the headbands that hold the protective plastic in place. Globally, there is a growing shortage of the protective plastic, he said, which will likely be the biggest hurdle as they ramp up production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brackets require filament to run through the 3D printers, but the big challenge right now is access to the plastic shield at the front,\u201d Ewen said, adding that he is working with business leaders in Houston to try to develop new partners and material pipelines to keep production at capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shield needs to be able to offer protection but then also offer [visual] clarity, so the preferred material is PETG, which is the kind of material our water bottles are made from,\u201d explained Jordan Carswell, HCC program director for IDEAStudio & IDEAS Academy at the West Houston Institute. \u201cA lot of the suppliers that we have talked to are two to three weeks out, and it went from them saying, \u2018Yes, we\u2019re having a shipment Monday,\u2019 to, \u2018Yes, we\u2019re still having a shipment Monday, but you can\u2019t have it\u2014and neither can you have the next two to three shipments.’ \u2026 That is the material that seems to be the hardest to find right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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3D-printed brackets for protective face shields. (Courtesy photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Out-of-the-box thinking”<\/h5>\n

Currently, the production process begins with HCC printing the brackets on their 3D printers, then delivering them in bulk to TX\/RX Labs. HCC has already printed and delivered more than 1,000 brackets to TX\/RX Labs for assembly, with another 800 on the way. Once there, a team connects the protective plastic to the headbands; when assembly is complete, the face shields are sent out to be cleaned, sanitized and packaged for distribution to the medical facility in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had the plastic ready to go on site, we could do the cutting at our sites at HCC and all of the production could be done at the same location, minimizing the transportation time,\u201d Ewen said. \u201cBut this is the story all across the United States: Everybody is looking for the same product.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the shortage presents a challenge, Carswell noted, it\u2019s also a positive sign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is that I think that is because everybody is making face shields\u2014private industry and public,\u201d Carswell said. \u201cBut people are figuring out ways around that by finding other materials that can be used. I talked to a supplier of 3D filament that said they were using rolls of X-ray film. \u2026 People are being really creative and I think that\u2019s been very interesting, to see all the on-the-spot and out-of-the-box thinking to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

HCC is up for the challenge\u2014and they\u2019re not stopping at face shields.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working with our fashion design teams at our Central Campus and the local sewing community and inviting people at home to sew face masks,\u201d Ewen said, noting new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> that individuals wear cloth face coverings to help stop the spread of COVID-19. \u201cThere are better and worse ways to do this with regular fabric, so we are sharing information with specific specifications to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

HCC will also share drop-off locations for community members who wish to sew masks and donate them to groups in need, he said, including police officers, first responders and community members who may not otherwise have access to masks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make this a collaborative team effort around responding to the crisis,\u201d Ewen said. \u201cThe role of a community college is to bring the community together and part of what we consider our mission is to be responsive to the needs of the community\u2014traditionally through education\u2014but we have resources that we can deploy in a situation like this to help people in other ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, he said, the opportunity to come together through innovation and for the good of the community is all part of education. Perhaps, this will be the most important lesson these students ever learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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