Computer science student Paul Thompson led visitors in a lesson on how to use the hologram table for building construction, and other structural engineering uses. The table was damaged during storm flooding last year, but Thompson, got it back into working order.
Around 300 visitors of all ages came to check out some of our student-facing projects at the annual Doors Open, a citywide event that gives the public free, behind-the-scenes access to remarkable buildings and hidden spaces in Milwaukee. The event is put on by Historic Milwaukee and UWM was a main sponsor this year.
At the college, students gave visitors something to see, including a hologram table, (acquired in 2019 with support from the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee Education & Research Foundation, as well as GRAEF and the Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer Foundation.)
Guests also got a sneak peak at a biomedical 3D printer in development, the student org’s Baja car set for regional races later this month, a glimpse of the UWM foundry and our own MakerSpace.
Hannah Vincent, left, shows visitors what goes into designing a biomedical 3D printer – one that uses a gel-like material instead of plastic to produce objects that simulate human tissue.Visitors were able to view some of the items cast from metal composites at the UWM Foundry. Postdoctoral researcher Kaustubh K. Rane,right, led the tour. A visitor gets behind the wheel of the Baja car built by the members of the student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers.Undergraduate Jacob Johnson showed people around the MakerSpace. Here, he demonstrated how the 3D printers can make toys, including homemade building blocks that fit together. You know the kind I’m talking about! Guests at the Open Doors event find out that metal composites are much lighter than their traditional counterparts.A dad raises up his daughter so she can see a 3D printer in action.
