Face Shield Mold

I worked with two professors from WPI to develop a process for producing face shields at a greater rate at African universities with a limited number of 3D printers. I developed a technique for using a 2 part silicon in a 3D printed mold to produce face shields. I shared this technique with 17 universities across 13 countries and WPI sent sample supplies and 3D printers to these universities to test out the process and begin producing face shields for their local hospitals.

The number of face shields that you can produce with 3D printers is directly related to the number of 3D printers you have available. To maximize the potential output of a 3D printer you need to create tooling for offline production. To accomplish this the team I was working with wanted to investigate using molding to produce a higher number of face Shields. I began to develop molds to produce the hospital approved face shield designs that these countries were already using. After developing the molds I formalized the production process and presented it to the partnered universities. After several versions, WPI purchased and sent the relevant materials to the African universities so they could test out the process for themselves.