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SCC Professor appointed to AM Coalition Advisory Board

The Additive Manufacturing (AM) Coalition appointed Somerset Community College Professor Eric Wooldridge to the National Additive Manufacturing Coalition Advisory Board.

Preparing Technicians Podcast featuring Mobile AMP Principal Investigator

Host Mike Lesiecki interviews Eric Wooldridge and learns how Eric's education and broad industry experience in engineering, architecture, and farming help him develop curricula in additive manufacturing/3D printing.

Educators examine the first test prints from the 3D printers they built during Mobile AMP's workshop that concludes the otherwise virtual professional event.

2022-23 ATE Impacts

Mobile AMP project published in the 2022-23 ATE Impacts book.

Amplifying ATE

In March 2020, the trailer that Eric Wooldridge expected would be the headliner of his MOBILE AMP Advanced Technological Education grant from the National ScienceFoundation had been delivered to SCC in Kentucky. He was ordering 3D printers to outfit the trailer as a traveling additive manufacturing lab for summer workshops at high schools and colleges when Covid-19 lockdowns occurred.

Mobile Additive Manufacturing Platform Team (Left to Right): Elaine Kohrman, Director of Grants, SCC; Dr. Ismail Fidan, Professor of the Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Technology and College of Engineering- Faculty Fellow in Innovation and Techno-Entrepreneurship at Tennessee Technological University; Eric Wooldridge, SCC professor and director of AMCOE.

NSF Grant

SCC receives second NSF Grant for Mobile Additive Manufacturing Platform

3D Mass Production

With over 7,000 face shield assemblies 3D printed, 1,000 ear savers (that make it possible to get a mask strap off the back of your ears), and 272,000 grams of filament used, SCC Additive Manufacturing Center (AMC) stepped up in a major way to 3D print personal protective equipment (PPE) for Kentucky’s first responders in this COVID-pandemic time of need.

Mobile Additive Manufacturing Platform Team (Left to Right): Elaine Kohrman, Ismail Fidan, and Eric Wooldridge

2nd NSF Grant Awarded

The National Science Foundation has just announced a new grant award to Somerset Community College(SCC), led by Professor Wooldridge, to establish a Mobile Additive Manufacturing Platform to enhance theinnovation and entrepreneurship infrastructure in both Tennessee and Kentucky.