Engineering schools around the United States have recently developed a variety of ingenious ways to address the coronavirus pandemic. Two of the most noteworthy ideas were the brainchild of engineers at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Illinois RapidVent emergency ventilator was developed in less than a week by a team at the Grainger College of Engineering. The device is designed to plug into the oxygen source available in most hospital rooms or it could plug into a tank of oxygen.