Lattakia-Sana
A student research team from the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Tishreen University designed two sterilization devices that work without touch that can replace manual devices as part of local efforts to tackle the Corona virus.
Long hours of continuous work inside the university and from homes under curfew conditions resulted in this design for the research team consisting of seven students, “Engineer Ja`far Qureiush, Rami Qasim, Zulfiqar Dayoub, Mahmoud Kamel, Ahmed Asaad, Ali Ghanem and Marah Mariam”.
Dr. Carlo Makdisi of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the team manager said in an interview with SANA correspondent that dealing with the pandemic is divided into three levels, which are preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic. In our view, the preventive level is the most important because prevention prevents infection, so we started working on a set of ideas, including these two devices Noting the energies and creative ideas of the Syrian youth that are no less important than the countries abroad.
On the mechanism of work of the two devices, Ja`far Qureiush, an electrical energy engineer and a master’s student who specializes in power systems, said that the mechanism is very simple and once the hand is placed under the device, a sufficient amount of alcohol, liquid soap, or any sterile material is poured, confirming the ability of the Syrians to manufacture multiple advantages and more advanced devices if they are provided to them The right climate, support, and financing.
In turn, Rami Qassem, "a fifth year engineering student," talked about the advantages of the two devices that they are less expensive compared to similar devices imported and easy to use and can be installed on the wall or placed on the office table and can be used in various institutions, universities, restaurants, kitchens and ambulance rooms in hospitals as an alternative to manual devices that require pressure in A specific place and thus avoid infection with any viral or bacterial infection.
Zulfikar Diop, a student of engineering design and production for a fifth year, explained that the team’s success a while ago by designing three types of contact and contact temperature measuring devices with local expertise and materials formed an incentive for everyone to continue working and searching for other ideas that serve the community, adding that these devices can be used to examine people in Natural conditions and in the current circumstances, for testing individuals suspected of being infected with the Coronavirus.
The two students, Mahmoud Kamel and Ahmed Asaad, talked about the difficulties that the team faced, most notably financing and securing supplies and parts, especially that they had to use several pieces during the design of the prototype and stressed the need to develop the idea of linking the university with society so that it can be transformed into a productive institution to invest in talents and youth energies by finding a cooperation mechanism With the public and private sectors to benefit both parties and contribute to supporting the local industry.
Rasha Raslan