Saba Khalilmaji, Brian McRae, Chengwin Saephanh, Libing Wang
The Capstone team created an electronic sensing device for direct and continuous assessment of breastfeeding mechanisms as a means to aid physicians in correcting nonproductive behaviors.
Archives for September 2017
2011 A Home Monitoring: Early Detection of Asthma Flares
Charvi Shetty, Vinidhra Mani, Jay Kumar
The team introduced an in-home, portable asthma monitoring device with components for airflow and chemical measurement.
2011 Portable Assessment of Hemoglobin Levels in Resource Poor Settings
Philippe Decorwin-Martin, Austin Kwong, Xin Xin Lin, Nawal Siddiqui
The Capstone team worked with Jacaranda Health to create portable means to accurately assess human hemoglobin levels in a resource-limited setting using commonly available mobile telephone technology and WHO anemia standards.
2011 Transforming Patient Handling
Bryant Chu, Hoaming Huang, Eric Johnson, Jessie Tung
To address rising injury rates with an aging population, this Capstone team developed a safer, more efficient system to move hospital patients to and from beds/tables to minimize risk of injury to both the patient and caregiver.
2011 Embryo Delivery Device for Greater In Vitro Fertilization Success
Wanging Du, Vincent Liu, Pamela Tiet, Hanson Zhao
To address the IVF success rate variability, the Capstone team developed a hand-held device to enable high accuracy and precision delivery of an embryo to specific locations in the uterus, as is needed in IVF.
2012 SqueakPeak: Mouse Pup Birth Detector for Research Laboratories
Alexsandra Denisin, Davis Li, Pauline Luong, Chris Alabastro
The Capstone team developed a pup delivery detector to accurately determine birth time of pups such that researchers can age-match mice. Unlike manual inspection, this research sensor identifies the birth hour and day for age-matching individuals.
2012 Reduce malaria transmission by killing mosquitos without insecticides
Kellen Chen, Helen Wan, Richard Hwang
Our team designed an insecticide-free, durable, low-cost method to divert mosquitoes away from humans that could be used in Ugandan households to reduce the prevalence of malaria.
2012 Portable newborn health screening devices
Olga Miakicheva, Michael Nasr, Devi Khoday. Hosna Akhlaghpour
We developed a hand-held device with a pictorial interface where midwives enter data measurements (e.g. skin color, level of movement), and the device outputs an overall health assessment.
2012 An emergency medical transport solution for developing countries
Inbal Epstein, Tak Yau, Susanna Ly, Arthur King
Our team worked to develop an adaptable patient transportation system which is low cost, durable and can traverse a variety of terrains for use in Haiti and Nepal.