Rensselaer students help give local landmark a high-tech facelift.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 May 2006-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer students help give local landmark a high-tech facelift(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05052006 Troy, N.Y. - A symbol of the Capital Region's 19th-century industrial heritage is getting a facelift, courtesy of a decidedly 21st-century technology.

Using a state-of-the-art "rapid prototyping" system, undergraduate engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are partnering with local industry and preservationists to restore the long-lost letters to the faade of the Burden Iron Works Museum in South Troy, once home to an industrial complex that could produce 51 million horseshoes per year. As part of a class project, two mechanical engineering seniors are using a high-tech rapid...