Rapid Prototyping Center at MSOE recreates history
| Published: 04/26/2012 |
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MSOE’s Rapid Prototyping Center helped the Chipstone Foundation create an artifact to display at the Milwaukee Art Museum (watch video of creation). The exhibit, “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina,” features face jug vessels that were created by slaves in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. Vince Anewenter, RPC manager of operations, used 3D laser scanning to create an exact digital copy of an original face jug. Using the digital file, Anewenter and biomedical engineering student Nora Huang worked with Brian Gillis, the commissioned artist, to convert the model into a time capsule. Huang used a variety of specialized CAD softwares to manipulate the original scan file into a functional time capsule design. Using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology the RPC additively manufactured the actual time capsule. The nylon SLS model was then coated with .005 nickel by Repliform Inc. which will be on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum April 26-Aug. 5.
MSOE is an independent university with about 2,500 students. MSOE offers 18 bachelor’s degrees and nine master’s degrees in the engineering, engineering technology, building and infrastructure engineering, health-related engineering, computer, business and nursing fields. The university has a national academic reputation; longstanding ties to business and industry; dedicated professors with real-world experience; and extremely high placement rates and the highest starting salaries of any