Mysore/Mysuru: Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, has taken an initiative to help the treatment of COVID-19 patients by promoting low-cost equipment. As part of this initiative, VTU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr. Karisiddappa had appealed the students and faculty members of affiliated Engineering Colleges in Karnataka to come up with innovative ideas and research projects and also assured financial assistance for the selected projects.
Final year students from Mechanical Engineering Department of ATME College of Engineering (ATMECE), Mysuru — Mohammed Shuaib Khan, Mohammed Faraaz ur Rahman, Mohammed Yousuf Khan and Shahbaz Pasha — helped by Prof. M. Karthik Kumar (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Branch), came up with an innovative product ‘IoT Based Low Cost Smart Ambu-Bag Compressing Machine for Low Cost Ventilators.’
