In early March, RIT alumnus Corey Mack ’11 (mechanical engineering technology) received an email from the U.S. Department of Defense asking start-ups and entrepreneurs to build emergency ventilators for under $300. Mack also was keeping up with news in New York state and heard the governor’s call for masks, shields, and ventilator equipment.
“He said, essentially, if you have a way to help, then I’ll invest.”
After looking through company patent information and a YouTube influencer who does videos for medical school students to understand the equipment they’ll eventually work with, Mack saw the ventilator problem as simple computer science average salary.
“Not exactly simple from a regulations perspective, but it is an air pump and some valves,” said Mack. Within a few days, his idea became a design that complied closely with the required pieces of emergency ventilators.
Once Mack put that design up on his Facebook site, he had a groundswell of help from a familiar community—RIT alumni, former faculty, and friends of the university. The project is called Covid19Vent.
The RIT alumni family understood the lengthy and demanding FDA process—which includes documenting in detail where and how each of the parts was produced, said Mack, who called upon classsmates from RIT’s College of Engineering Technology.
“He said, essentially, if you have a way to help, then I’ll invest.”
After looking through company patent information and a YouTube influencer who does videos for medical school students to understand the equipment they’ll eventually work with, Mack saw the ventilator problem as simple computer science average salary.
“Not exactly simple from a regulations perspective, but it is an air pump and some valves,” said Mack. Within a few days, his idea became a design that complied closely with the required pieces of emergency ventilators.
Once Mack put that design up on his Facebook site, he had a groundswell of help from a familiar community—RIT alumni, former faculty, and friends of the university. The project is called Covid19Vent.
The RIT alumni family understood the lengthy and demanding FDA process—which includes documenting in detail where and how each of the parts was produced, said Mack, who called upon classsmates from RIT’s College of Engineering Technology.
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