UCI Engineering Faculty Design, Deliver 5,000 Face Shields to Local Medical Center
IRVINE, Calif. — Like their colleagues across the country during the current coronavirus crisis, the health care professionals at UCI Medical Center were facing rapidly shifting needs and demands for face shields, which are critical pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE). Unlike their colleagues, the staff had access to the researchers and resources of UCI.
Working with UCI Beall Applied Innovation, faculty members from The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts – with input from the School of Medicine and the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing – designed a face shield and assembled and tested prototypes within six days.