University of Johannesburg s multi-partner Mahlale Innovation Consortium opens ventilator design competition for SA students
Concerns about world-wide ventilator shortages, medical device development and sufficient maintenance skills, as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, have led to multiple projects at major academic institutions that seek to find alternative means for emergency ventilation. Therefore, student designers and engineers are challenged to go beyond the classroom or laboratory and showcase their technical and commercial abilities by demonstrating new and creative ways digital manufacturing can add value.
The Mahlale Innovation Consortium (MIC), an alliance of five Higher Education Institutions (HEI), was formed in response to a request from merSETA to promote local manufacturing of ventilators to contribute to the National Ventilator Project. The consortium announced an eight-week hackathon hosted on MIC to design a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventil
MIC lanches a ventilator design competition for SA students
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The University of Johannesburg has formed a multi partnership with the Mahlale Innovation Consortium to launch a ventilator design competition for South African students.
The Mahlale Innovation Consortium (MIC), an alliance of five higher education institutions, was formed in response to a request from merSETA to promote local manufacturing of ventilators to contribute to the National Ventilator Project.
This follows concerns about worldwide ventilator shortages, medical device development and sufficient maintenance skills, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, have led to multiple projects at major academic institutions that seek to find alternative means for emergency ventilation.
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