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OMG! OUTRAGEOUS MATERIALS GOODNESS

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Because Zola only described the train engine as having two wheels, the CEID team left the back wheels off of their model as well.

Top view of the monument via the total station surveying tool, captured by placing a smartphone camera near the eyepiece. Courtesy of NOAA. literature and science. For more infor- mation: Morgane Cadieu, 203.436.2596, morgane.cadieu@yale.edu, www.yale. edu. WASHINGTON MONUMENT RECEIVES NEW HEIGHT VALUE Using new international measure- ment standards and technology not available in the past, the National Oce- anic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has cal- culated the official architectural height of the Washington Monument to be 554 ft, 7.344 in.—a highly precise mea- surement that makes it eligible for in- clusion in official registers of the world’s tallest structures. The measurement was made using certification stan- dards of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats and was finalized in December 2014. Although the newly established architectural height dif- fers from the historical height of 555 ft, 5.125 in., neither the starting point nor the so-called “standard deviation” used for the original 1884 measurement is known, making comparison of the two measurements difficult. The new value provides a baseline to determine if the height of the monument is changing in any way. noaa.gov.

ALL ABOARD THE LITERARY TRAIN

SCI’s Advancing Mortuary Science Educa- tion grant program illustrates how 3D tech- nology can be used inmortuary science education tomeet community needs.

Yale University, NewHaven, Conn., assistant French professor Morgane Cadieu and her students created a 3D-printed train based on descriptions from Emile Zola’s 1890 novel “La Bête Humaine” (“The Beast Within”). To ac- complish her project, Cadieu turned to Yale’s Center for Engineering Inno- vation & Design (CEID). She found that creating a literary train would require both tools and translation. A blueprint of the model could be efficiently drawn up using the CEID’s computer-aided design software, at which point it could be rapidly produced on the CEID’s 3D printers. The final product turned out more realistic than Cadieu anticipated. “What we didn’t expect is that if you look closely at trains from the end of the 19th century, they really look sim- ilar—the chimneys are this high,” she says. “And yet Zola’s intense focus on small parts of the train—the fog, the sound, the light—could easily be inter- preted another way, producing a lot of different trains. For that reason, we decided to connect this 3D train body only through the 2D ‘fog’ of literary descriptions in between the cars and also above it.” In that sense, the model train took on one more symbolic mean- ing—as the connecting force between

RESTORING CORPSES WITH 3D PRINTING

Are you working with or have you discovered a material or its properties that exhibit OMG - Outrageous Materials Goodness? Send your submissions to Julie Lucko at julie.lucko@asminternational.org. The Mortuary Science Program at Wayne State University, Detroit, re- ceived a $10,000 grant to support its 3D technology project from Service Corp. International (SCI). Titled “3D Printing in Restorative Art,” the initiative seeks to develop an interactive learning mod- ule for mortuary science students. The goal is to create anatomical models for laboratory learning and prosthet- ics for body and feature restoration on deceased individuals. The project illus- trates how 3D technology can be used in mortuary science education to meet community needs. Specific objectives include developing a set of core com- petencies students need to successful- ly reconstruct body parts, providing a model for other schools. For more in- formation: 313.577.1202, evely@wayne. edu, www.wayne.edu.