Channel 7 Covers UMaine Pill-Crushing Competition
Channel 7 (WVII) on Wednesday covered the pill-crushing device competition among six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology students in Barrows Hall. After being rated by professional nurses and engineers for efficiency, ease of use, noise and safety, students in professor Herb Crosby’s class who designed and constructed the devices ground up vitamins and other pills to see which did the best job. Pill crushers can be helpful for hospitals and nursing homes, where staff grind up medications to mix with food for patients adverse to swallowing pills whole. The station’s website also carried a text version of the story.
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