Leave it to a mechanical engineer to design a coffee-making hydraulic press.
While caffeine addicts are likely familiar with a French press or AeroPress, soon they may be buzzing about Pascal Press, an innovative all-in-one pressure coffee brewer and travel mug designed by Western student, Alan Kalbfleisch.
The current thermofluids master's student recently won Propel's annual start-up pitch competition, and now he's teaming up with the campus business incubator to launch a Kickstarter campaign for his design later this month.