CAPSTONE DESIGN
transforming clinical problems into healthcare solutions
Innovation Milestones since 2024
44 Patents Filed
26 Projects Continued from Capstone
4 Start-ups Created
17 Awards from Capstone Expo
Clinical Relations
Students receive badges for Clinical Access to Emory University Hospital and Grady Hospital.
Student Capstone Teams are paired with an Emory Medical Student to further foster interprofessional collaboration.
Student Deliverables
100+ Concepts Generated
20+ Stakeholder Interviews
Market Research
Prior Art Review
Functional Prototype
Design History File
Design Pillars
Voice of the Customer
This portion of the process determines what the true unmet clinical need is through interviews, research, and observation.
User Needs and Design Inputs
Here we define design inputs from voice of the customer into quantifiable metrics and design constraints.
Market Assessment
This quantifies the market opportunity and potential impact of the design.
Ideation
Great solutions typically are not obvious. Here we ideate 80+ solutions that fulfill the design inputs, utilizing divergent thinking to create original solutions then convergent thinking to identify a concept that meets the unmet clinical needs.
Verification and Validation
After choosing one solution from ideation, we prototype this idea and ensure it fulfills our design inputs and user needs through testing.
Intellectual Property
Prior art analysis and evaluate the patentability and freedom to operate of our design.
About Us
The Georgia Tech BME Capstone Program connects engineering students with real-world healthcare challenged. Through partnerships with hospitals, physicians, and medical device development companies, students work in teams to identify unmet user needs rooted in stakeholder interviews and market research, generate and refine designs, and conduct proof of concept testing that addresses clinical needs. Teams combine technical expertise, clinical insight and entrepreneurial thinking to foster solutions to advance the future of biomedical innovation.
Our Collaborations
Clinicians
The majority of our projects are clinician sponsored, allowing engineering students to address medical problems with medical insight.
Industry
Industry sponsors have enabled our students to create medical devices and consumer products, such as medical gowns with enhanced safety features.
Emerging Technology
Student designs are on the forefront of technology, incorporating machine learning, and cutting edge design elements.
Medical Devices
Students have created medical devices that span biological systems from respiratory to perinatal care.
“Capstone helped me apply evethying I have learned in the BME program to a real-world clinical need, making an impact on healthcare.”