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Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
7-10-2025
Abstract
In July 2020, the SmithVent team of Smith engineering alums, faculty, staff, and friends won the CoVent-19 Challenge, an international competition to design an open-source ventilator to address the global ventilator shortage. This special episode features 13 members of the SmithVent team (Adrienne Horne, Alex Widstrand, Astrid Landeau, Chelsea Hinds-Charles, Dan Lin, Devin Carroll, Eleanor Ory, Eric Jensen, Luca DeGroot, Nick Howe, Nora Paul-Schultz, Sangye Kazi, and Susannah Howe), along with guest facilitator Emily Blatter Boyer, as they share their memories and takeaways five years later.
Details of the SmithVent team's winning ventilator design itself are available at tinyurl.com/smithvent. After the competition, the SmithVent team also wrote a paper describing their journey and proposing a framework for collaborative distributed design and fabrication informed by their experience; the paper is available at bit.ly/SmithVentFrameworkPaper
Length of Episode
42:18
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Howe, Susannah and Blatter Boyer, Emily, "Episode 16: SmithVent Five Years Later" (2025). Podcast, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/designclinicdownload/16
SmithVent Five Years Later Transcript