News Type: Design Day
BME Design Team’s innovation aims to improve patient outcomes after peripheral nerve damage
The innovation is a set of electrodes designed to work without having to move or lift the nerve during evaluation, promising to reduce patient injury and inaccurate readings.
AdiCleanse: Enhanced harvesting of autologous fat tissue for structural fat grafting
To make fat grafting procedures more successful, undergraduate Design Team AdiCleanse has developed a novel system for standardizing the production of high-quality fat for reinjection.
AI could change the way we measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients
An undergraduate biomedical engineering design project yields a non-invasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure.
Biomedical engineering design teams win big at HopStart 2024
Five undergraduate and two graduate teams from the biomedical engineering department walked away with prizes, including in the competition’s main categories: Medical Technology and Life Sciences I and II. First-place teams received $5,000, second-place teams won $3,000, and third-place teams won $1,000.
Design Day 2024 Roundup
On May 1, The Whiting School of Engineering held its annual Design Day to showcase the innovative design projects conceived, designed, and built by students during the academic year. The Department of Biomedical Engineering was represented by over 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from six design courses, including the undergraduate Design Team program, CBID master’s program, Precision Care Medicine, and Biomedical Data Design.
Pain points: Students design neurological assessment tool for ICU patients
An undergraduate Design Team developed a new tool for neurological assessment that won’t harm Neuro ICU patients.
Beating breast cancer in Africa
Undergrad and CBID BME students tackle breast cancer inequities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hot or not: A new device for treating temperature-related emergencies
Design team’s non-invasive sensor monitors core body temperature en route to hospital.
OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma
Biomedical engineering student team aims to empower patients with a user-friendly, at-home tool
Parkinetics: Improved motion data collection of Parkinson’s patients in everyday life
Biomedical engineering team aims to help clinicians use motion data collection to inform medication adjustment