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H

adi Moradi [left], an associate
professor at the University of
Tehran's School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, has developed an
open-source ventilator for patients who
have COVID-19. The IEEE senior member and his team designed a low-cost,
easy-to-build ventilator and have made
its specifications available to manufacturing companies in Iran.
Moradi and fellow engineering professors S.K. Setarehdan of the University of Tehran and Morteza Behzadnasab
of the Iran Polymer and Petrochemical
Institute, also in Tehran, will share their
design with IEEE members as well so
they can build ventilators for their own
communities.
Helping the teachers are M.R. Farahnak and M. Derafshian, engineers
from the startup Nojan Robotics.
Moradi is the chair of the IEEE Iran
Section.
This interview, conducted in early April,
has been edited and condensed for clarity.
What problem are
you trying to solve?

Hospitals around the world are experiencing a shortage of ventilators, which
are commonly used to treat COVID-19
patients with severe respiratory distress. Because of the sophisticated
structure and high production cost of
the machines, it is not possible to rapidly manufacture them in large quantities. Therefore, we are trying to come
up with simple-to-build automatic

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