EWH Cal Poly chapter builds kits and refurbishes medical equipment

The EWH chapter at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has been featured in their school’s online newspaper, the Mustang Daily. Led by senior engineering students Jen Van Donk and Tim O'Neill, the chapter has built over 20 EWH Kits, low-cost defibrillator testers that allow hospital technicians in developing countries to effectively maintain and repair medical equipment. The EWH Kits offer an affordable solution to these technicians, as a used defibrillator tester from a hospital in the US typically costs around $2,000, which is beyond the budget of the hospitals in most developing countries. The EWH Cal Poly chapter is also beginning a program with Direct Relief International in Santa Barbara, California to refurbish medical equipment donations bound for resource poor hospitals around the world.

EWH-Northwestern chapter repairs locally, thinks globally

The video below shows the EWH chapter at Northwestern working to repair medical equipment donations that will be put into use in developing world hospitals by Mission Outreach. The video was produced by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern. You can read the full McCormick News Article at their website.

NC State chapter of EWH works to improve treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in infants

This bililight was developed by PhotoGenesis Medical, an EWH collaborator. It is a phototherapy device that shines blue light onto the infant's skin to break up excess bilirubin and prevent jaundice.

The EWH student chapter at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is providing noteworthy hands-on projects for their members. They are applying their technical skills to through work on EWH bilimeter and bililight projects. The chapter affords its students insight into global health issues by exposing them to a variety of social, political and cultural issues.

Alpha Source, Inc. sponsors Engineering World Health project

At Marquette, Freshman Emily Jaskolski solders a component to the defibrillator testing circuit.

In January 2009, twenty students from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) chapter of Engineers Without Borders and sixty from the Marquette University Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) joined forces in making a great contribution to the improvement of health care in the developing world. They teamed with Alpha Source, Inc., a global distributor of new and replacement medical devices and accessories and manufacturer of defibrillator batteries, to build 60 Engineering World Health defibrillator test kits that had been purchased by the company. The built kits will be tested by EWH before being taken to Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Tanzania by the students in the Summer Institute where they will be used to test the electrical charge levels of defibrillators in EWH’s partner hospitals.

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