12 MOMENTUM • VIRGINIA TECH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Virginia Tech commun
meet need for COVID-1
by Suzanne Irby, College of Engineering
Reporting contributions by Whitney Slightham and Eleanor Nelsen
Genevieve Gural
inspects a mask
design.
The adapter had to be small and
measuring 22 millimeters in diame
either end with a 4-millimeter hole
through it.
Mechanical engineering master’s
Genevieve Gural sketched out a ro
sign of the device with pen and pap
the rest of the team at the Design, R
and Education for Additive Manuf
ing Systems (DREAMS) Laborator
mechanical engineering professor
Williams, batted around ideas for m
it. They could 3D print it using fila
extrusion, squeezing layers of hot p
out to form the shape; or selective