BU engineering student makes ventilator prototype in his dorm room
“I wanna help people and use my education to help people as well,” said Goodman. Jacob Goodman is a Binghamton University Junior studying mechanical engineering. He says while his professors were studying how to make masks and ventilators, he took up the challenge to make his own. VESTAL (WBNG) — During this pandemic, mechanical engineering student, Jacob Goodman, made a prototype ventilator in his dorm room with simple supplies from the store. He says he is working on getting more advanced material to make a whole new prototype. Goodman says while it is just a prototype right now, he says he is looking forward to upgrading it and eventually becoming a mechanical engineer when he graduates to work and help people in a crisis like this. Goodman went to Walmart and picked up some simple supplies such as a lunch box container and a camping collapsible water bottle. “The way it works is a chamber and inside that chamber is a bladder,” said Goodman. “That bladder is a collapsible water bottle that was from the camping section. The chamber itself is just a lunch box. The tubing is also used from another camping water bottle. One that’s designed to go on your back and it’s a tube that goes up to your mouth.”