With assistance from University of Texas at Dallas engineering students, one of the University’s spinoff companies is developing a flexible and more accurate 3D-printed nasopharyngeal swab for infectious disease testing. “UT Dallas student research was an important component of this project,” Voit said. Trent Sakakini BS’21, now a UT Dallas mechanical engineering graduate student, led the team that developed the award-winning automated sorting and packaging system. “That added an extra motivating factor in terms of us wanting to get it done.”“UT Dallas student research was an important component of this project. Sakakini’s teammates included Josiah Go BS’21; Tobias Hynes BS’21; Petro John BS’21, mechanical engineering graduate student; Thien Nguyen BS’21; and Jayaram Rajagopalan BS’21.