Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Four graduating students at Waterloo Engineering had no way of knowing how timely their Capstone Design project would eventually become when they started brainstorming last fall.
Little more than six months later, they hope the portable, low-cost ventilator they designed and built could be pressed into emergency service in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
“It’s a total fluke, but our project couldn’t be any more relevant than it is today,” said Connor Simmons, one of four Automated Inhalation Resuscitator (AIR) team members from the mechatronics and mechanical engineering programs.
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