SEAS in the News

Engineering 360 covered the UB project led by Ruogang Zhao and Chi Zhou, who are turning artificial manual breathing units, also called Ambu bags, into automated resuscitators to fill COVID-19-related supply chain ventilator shortages.

An article on TechBriefs reports that M. Amin Karami, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is developing technology to make implantable pacemakers battery-free.

The Plymouth Herald in England reports that UB-affiliated startup Buffalo Automation will test unmanned robot water taxis in British seaside town after coronavirus restrictions lift.

Nexus Media News quotes Jun Zhuang, professor of industrial and systems engineering, in a story on how authorities need to be wary of disinformation and malicious claims in times of crisis.

 

Abilash Haridass, a 2006 electrical engineering graduate, is quoted in the Edex Live feature story on WEGot Utility Solutions, a real-time water management company designing household meters to help to address the water crisis in Haridass’ hometown of Chennai, India.