Development and Design of a Medical Sterilizer for Mission Hospitals

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At Gannon University, eight engineering students embarked on a student-led, service learning, engineering design project funded by the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM Grant. These students are part of the Scholars of Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) program at Gannon, with backgrounds in mechanical, environmental, electrical, and biomedical engineering1. Beginning in fall of 2014, the group partnered with Christian Hospitals Overseas Secure Equipment Needs (CHOSEN), a non-profit organization that provides medical equipment to mission hospitals2. The goal of the project was to retroactively engineer a table-top medical sterilizer to be compatible with unreliable power. This design project will have a global effect by giving people safe medical equipment to use in places where sanitation is not necessarily a given. Doing a student-led design project in college is beneficial to students as well because it helped us gain hands-on experience and learn how to collaborate as a team.

Author(s):

Anna Barr    
Environmental Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Jason Bensur    
Mechanical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Sabrina Rider    
Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Alexis Stahl    
Biomedical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Leilani King    
Mechanical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Nicholas Williams    
Mechnical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Kaitlyn Babiarz    
Electrical Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States

Blake Dantio    
Envionmental Engineering
Gannon University- SEECS
United States