12 July 11

ANU student helps Indian workers breathe easy

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Make it so reports on how Benton Maxted, a final-year environmental engineering student at ANU, is applying his technical expertise to improve health outcomes in rural India.

This humanitarian engineering project involves designing a dust mask for quarry and mine workers, in partnership with on-site EWB volunteer Kristen Wood.

The project aims to determine the most effective materials available for dust masks in order to protect quarry workers from respiratory diseases.

 

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