2011 Improve Breastfeeding Latching Assessment

2011 breastfeeding

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.

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2011 Portable Assessment of Hemoglobin Levels

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.

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2011 Transforming Patient Handling

2011 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.

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2011 Embryo Delivery Device

2011 in vitro

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.

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2011 SqueakPeak: Mouse Pup Birth Detector

2011 mouse

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.

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2012 Reduce malaria transmission

2012 malaria

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.

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2012 Portable newborn health screening devices

2012 newborn health

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.

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