Low-Resource Water Purification System
As a leader of Vanderbilt’s Engineering World Health design team, I contributed to designing and fabricating a low-resource water purification system. Our invention targets use in autoclaves, an essential sanitization tool that risks rapid decay without purified water. Learning heavily on my recent thermodynamics coursework, I realized that a low-pressure chamber can expedite the timeless technology of solar distillation. Combined with wick-based system, our electricity-free design improves on conventional purification technologies.
Engineering World Health is a global non-profit dedicated to providing refurbished medical equipment to developing nations that otherwise would have no access to many life-saving technologies. Their annual design competition challenges college students to invent a technology to improve healthcare in low-resource settings. That’s exactly what we did.
I recap many of my projects on TikTok because the world needs more engineers to solve the most pressing problems.
