A medical device that four graduates of Waterloo Engineering helped develop made the spotlight when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that hundreds of units were on order to help in the fight against COVID-19.
“That was certainly a proud moment,” said Michael Vermeer, a member of the first mechatronics engineering class to graduate in 2008. “It was great to know all the hard work that went into that device was getting its time to shine helping Canadians.”
Among those who also had a hand in designing and developing the compact unit while working at a Toronto company called Thornhill Medical were alumni Drew Miller (computer engineering, ’96), Martin Rozee (systems design engineering, ’02) and Zhan Huan Zhou (computer engineering, ’01).
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