GSD-led team is fabricating PPE for Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital

As design communities around the country come together to help fabricate new stockpiles of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), a team at Harvard University is undertaking its own PPE manufacturing operation. 

Representatives from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have pooled resources, production capabilities, and labor to produce over 1,000 face shields and 750 visors so far. 

A team led by Stephen Ervin, GSD Assistant Dean for Information Technology, and Chris Hansen, the GSD's 3-D Fabrication Specialist, is guiding efforts at the GSD, where the school's 3-D printers and laser-cutting equipment is being put to work fabricating PPE.

According to information provided ...