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Last fall, seniors in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering (BE) took on the most relevant of all possible design challenges the Covid-19 pandemic. The capstone design class in the Course 20 major, class 20.380 (Biological Engineering Design) has a different theme every semester, and in September there was little doubt about this fall’s topic Addressing the Pandemic with BE. “We weren t sure how students would respond. Would they be exhausted by Covid? Instead, students leapt at the chance to apply their skills to such an immediate problem,” says Professor Angela Koehler, a member of the teaching team.