GREENVILLE, S.C. – A four-student advanced manufacturing team from Minnesota State College Southeast won the national Project MFG competition and $100,000. With lathes and mills the Winona team created a stainless steel hip replacement implant within 20 hours over three days and within budget restraints. The team:
> Austyn Warren, as programmer.
> Ivey Wadmen Vehrenkap, CNC machinist.
> Brad Bishop. manual machinist
.> Ellery Kiesel, welding.
The team trained on a three-axis machine on campus and a Haas five-axis machine at Rushford Manufacturing.
Next generation machinists. From the 26-course machine tool curriculum at Southeast.