Ambulance App Project Brings Together Students from Three Nations

14 July 2023

Watson College students collaborate with peers at Vishwakarma University in India and the School of Integrated Innovation (ScII) at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand

When Americans have a medical emergency, they grab the phone to dial 911, and an ambulance is on the way in minutes. In other countries, though, folks are not so fortunate — and when help takes hours to arrive, the delay can be deadly.

What if there was an Uber-like app for ambulances that could summon assistance when needed? That was the idea behind a first-ever collaboration among students from the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Vishwakarma University in India and the School of Integrated Innovation (ScII) at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

The Trinational Innovation and Entrepreneurship Immersion Program, which started in the fall 2022 semester, is an extension of the Design Thinking and Innovation Center of Excellence, a collaboration in Pune, India, between Vishwakarma and Binghamton University. It also aims to introduce students to the business possibilities available in Thailand’s neighbor, Singapore, which is a global leader in entrepreneurship.