Number of innovative program(s) during Covid-19 pandemic
Number of innovative program(s) during Covid-19 pandemic
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(Please describe innovative program(s) on your campus. The following is an example of the description. You can describe more related items if needed.)
Since COVID – 19 pandemic has been emerged, the university has ultimately proceeded volunteer activities and built the field hospital and hospitec, for instance, for not only the students and staffs in the university, but also the people in the university’s community or the province to relieve the COVID – 19 cases, which has increased over a year. Thus, the innovative programs help the staffs’ work more convenient and safety. The first innovation program which the university applied to clean the field hospital is the UVC robot. UVC is ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths between 200 and 290 nanometers. It can apply to eliminate the biological pollutants which makes diseases among the people who are living in the field hospital. The robot roams inside the hospital and stops for a short period to sterilize the area, especially beds. The robot attaches LIDARs, a sensor to detect the obstacles and create a map for the robot to optimize its operating path.
In addition, the university used drones cleaning around the field hospital and hospitec which help the staffs sterilizing the infectious area in the university. The drones contain the chemical, silver nano that produced by the Faculty of Science, cleaning all around the field hospital and hospitec. They are set and controlled by the volunteers who are the professionals approved by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand.
Furthermore, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arunee Kongdee Aldred from the Faculty of Science invented the Teflon nano- coated fabric masks. Teflon nano has the capacity to protect persons wearing masks from dust and pathogens coming in from the outside. Furthermore, becauseTeflon nano can protect water which deteriorates the mask, it can extend the mask’s lifetime. The masks arealso recyclable and washable because they are made of natural fabric, which is a significant feature of green products.
Youtube Link for the news of Teflon nano coated fabric masks from ThaiPBS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhh-OFBxSA