STEM STATION

Engineering Connection with Respiratory system.

Some engineers work with doctors to find engineering solutions to problems affecting the human body and the respiratory system. Engineers use their knowledge of respiration, air flow, fluid flow and membranes to devise systems to provide functions of the respiratory system to patients when their respiratory system, or parts of it, fail. Examples include medicines and inhalers, pulmonary function testing and screening equipment (spirometers), and heart-lung bypass devices (artificial lungs).