VIDEO: Bioengineering Students Confront Opioid Crisis

Bioengineering team’s innovative adjunctive device that empowers bystanders and non-EMTs to properly and safely provide overdose victims with rescue breaths.

Published on A. James Clark School of Engineering LinkedIn | August 23, 2024

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Award-Winning Team Reveals Details on Ventilation Coach Device

Through support from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower), undergraduates from the University of Maryland, College Park partner with faculty physicians at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to experience firsthand the robust link between engineering and human health. Capitalized through a Senior Capstone Design Course, students are exposed to the medical field and clinical settings through this collaboration and see the direct application of medical devices in a hospital setting, and then imagine and create their own engineering designs from concept to product.

From a field of 98 projects, one team was awarded the expo’s top prize: the Dean’s Award from A. James Clark School of Engineering.

Read more about the Dean’s Award winner: Accessible Ventilation Coach for Opioid Overdose Bystandershere.