DIY Engineering and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephen McEvoy, founder of Furness 3D Printing, discusses how he adopted a new hobby and started a new business in response to COVID-19. He’ll be discussing the benefits of additive manufacturing, the technical aspects of manufacturing safety visors, the ethics of producing safety equipment with minimal testing, and future opportunities for engineers to help in a national crisis. Speaker Bio: Stephen McEvoy is a Systems Engineer at Sellafield Ltd. who, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, adopted a new hobby and began to put it to use in the production of safety visors for frontline workers.

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