MPTC Manufacturing Program Working to Fill COVID-19 needs
Moraine Park, as well as other Wisconsin Technical College’s, are working to find a solution to the shortage of face masks at our local healthcare systems.
Kim Olson, a mechanical design technology instructor at Moraine Park, has been working virtually with colleagues to design and print masks on a 3D printer.
He has successfully designed and printed some samples, but is working on efficiency and waiting to see if they can get approval for these to be used in a medical facility.
“The masks need to be approved for efficacy by the medical profession, and we need to become a certified manufacturer before a healthcare facility could accept them,” Kim said. ” We aren’t sure if the state will have the ability to certify each technical college, but if they can, we will be ready!”
Kim’s hard work is just one of the ways that Moraine Park is working to provide solutions during the COVID-19 outbreak. The College also made a significant donation of PPE to local healthcare facilities in our district and the College’s culinary program donated their perishable foods to local food banks.
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This is so awesome! I hope the certification process goes smoothly and quickly.
Everything within these flyer or brochure? It was truly a pleasure to read all the content and to see MPTC Be involved with a piece of the solution needed to protect all of our front line healthcare professionals is an awesome endeavor worthy of all of our thanks, our pride and our support.