This MEng capstone team of bioengineering and mechanical engineering students has designed the I-OPener Tube Shunt, a low-cost patient-specific device which accurately regulates intraocular pressure (IOP) using two degradable blockers encased within a microfluidic chamber to improve the failure rate of tube shunt surgery for glaucoma patients.
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Feature: Khowa Agbojo, MEng ’21
BioE MEng student Khowa Agbojo talks about her career transition into bioengineering and desire to create opportunities for people in the developing world.
Project Profile: Precision Freezing 3D Bioprinter for Large Scale Tissue Engineering
An MEng capstone team of bioengineers and mechanical engineers designed a level-controlled cooling bath to precisely freeze biomaterials as they are printed, providing the bioink with the structural integrity needed to support larger structures and ensuring living cellular material is preserved.
Project Profile: Smart eye-drop bottle to monitor medication habits of glaucoma patients
An MEng capstone team of BioE, ME and IEOR students developed a smart device to track patients’ eye drop medication adherence.
Project Profile: Personalizing Neurological Patient’s Gait Therapy Using Machine-Learning-Based Electrical Stimulation
This project by a team of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering MEng students uses machine learning techniques to allow the EvoWalk to analyze patients’ gait patterns and provide a personalized stimulation algorithm that most efficiently improves their walking outcome.
Project Profile: Wearable Motion Tracking for Clinical Gait Analysis
Master of Engineering students in BioE and Mechanical Engineering have developed GaitTrac, providing wireless, real-time gait analysis for clinical gait diagnosis through seven custom motion sensors.
Project Profile: Information Extraction from Unstructured Clinical Notes Using Natural Language Processing
Bioengineering Master of Engineering students discovering inaccurate extracted information from unstructured Clinical notes using Natural Language Processing.
Q&A with MEng team “Smart eye-drop bottle to monitor medication habits of glaucoma patients”
The 2020 Fung Institute Technical Leadership Capstone Award for 2020 went to the “Smart eye-drop bottle to monitor medication habits of glaucoma patients” capstone team, including BioE student Fang-Jhen Su.
Q&A with Most Innovative Project: Precision Freezing 3D Bioprinter for Large Scale Tissue Engineering
The “Precision Freezing 3D Bioprinter for Large Scale Tissue Engineering” Master of Engineering capstone team won this year’s Most Innovative Project Award from the Fung Institute. The team designed a level-controlled cooling bath to precisely freeze biomaterials as they are printed. This new approach allows for larger printed structures than previously possible.