Posts by 186325
2016 Monitoring Impending Respiratory Failure in an Outpatient Setting
Justin Choe, Andrew Hild, Dhruv Kothari, Anisha Kumar
A method to predict impending type II respiratory failure in outpatients with COPD to reduce the rate of respiratory related outpatient mortality.
Read More2016 Automobility Transfer Device
Anne Zeng, Katelyn Greene, Giang Ha
A device capable of handling loads the lower extremities typically experience through vehicle ingress and egress provides the user with stability needed for a comfortable and safe vehicle transfer.
2016 Tremor Detection for Parkinson’s Patients
Ashlee Horn, Jeff Hsiao, Katherine Spack, Alex Takahashi
A tool to accurately record patients’ symptoms which delays the determination of a stable drug regimen by a neurologist. This solution simplifies symptom monitoring, enabling neurologists to quickly identify an effective treatment regimen for the patient.
2016 Quantitative Assessment of Degree and Spatial Extent of Pain Nerve Block
Darya Fadavi, Jeffrey Feng, Noreen Wauford
To measure the degree and spatial extent of pain nerve block both quantitatively and precisely in post-operative thoracic and abdominal adult surgical patients who have been given an epidural for their anesthetic administration.
2016 Screening for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction
Maxine Arnush, Priya Bhattacharjee, Joshua Chen, Richard Xu
A method to screen for ANS dysfunction in symptomatic pediatric patients who have been referred to a neurologist in order to reduce cases of misdiagnosis and improve treatment outcomes.
Capstone alumni featured in New York Times
Two startup companies spun out of BioE 192 Senior Capstone Design projects are taking the world of remote health monitoring by storm. Read how the heart and asthma monitoring devices by Eko Devices and Knox Medical Diagnostics are changing the landscape of medicine.
Read MoreMEng team wins Best Presentation Award at capstone showcase
Our Master of Engineering team working on the project “Commercializing Nanocarriers for Neurological Disease” won the Best Capstone Presentation Award at the end-of-year project showcase in May.
Read More2017 Biodesign Immersion Experience wraps up
The Biodesign Immersion Experience, an intensive summer of training in needs finding and the engineering design process, has wrapped up their work with a database of hundreds of unmet needs documented through 8 weeks of clinic and site visits. The BIE is funded by an NIH R25 grant. Read all about the experience at their summer blog.
Read MoreCell mechanics lead to chicken feathers, hair
Professor Sanjay Kumar’s lab collaborated to show how identical embryonic skin cells organize to produce follicles and feathers, based on resistance from the materials underlying the skin. This could lead to more practical use of stem cells to produce skin graft materials. The work was conducted with Amy Shyer, a Miller postdoctoral fellow, and visiting scholar Alan Rodrigues, of Professor Harland’s lab, and BioE PhD student Elena Kassianidou.
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