Building the future
Shown are biomedical solutions created by biomedical engineering undergraduate students in Fall 2020. Despite limited resources and COVID-19 related challenges to the design process students created biomedical devices to address medical problems ranging from traumatic brain injury to adequate medical surgical training.
Please click any prototype to learn more.
Industry Sponsored
Project Halo
Development of a blast attenuator device to mitigate blast exposure in mortarmen.
Set the Lace
Team Set the Lace designed an assistive device allowing users with upper limb impairments to tie shoes with their most functional hand.
Bun in the Oven
Low-cost, versatile device for combatting neonatal hypothermia in Ethiopia’s Black Lion Hospital.
Baby S.H.I.E.L.D
PPE for Infants Under the Age of Two.
ClearWay
Non-invasive Device to Maintain Airway During Monitored Anesthesia Care Using Jaw Thrust .
Brainy Bunch
The Brainy Bunch implemented electrical stimulation functionality in a 3D anatomical model of the brain for neurosurgical training.
Nova Spire
Addressing barriers to reusability of shortaged N95 respirators.
Embrace
Designing a Process to Correct for Breast Asymmetry Resulting from Post-Surgical Defects and Congenital Deformities.
NeoFlex
Novel Device for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Pediatric Esophageal Atresia.
404 The Counter Culture
Preventing Hospital Acquired Pneumonia with an Innovative Oral Care Solution.
Actin Action
Objective Muscle Strength Quantification Device for Pediatric Telemedicine.
Phantom Friends
3D Printing and Medical Devices: Printing Physiologically Accurate Vascular Phantoms.
EPICS
A screening tool measuring pulse wave velocity for early detection of preeclampsia.
Healthcare Sponsored
Incisionizers
Retractor 360: A self-retaining surgical retractor to assist in exposure during small-incisional surgery.
Illumi
Enhancing visualization of the peritonsillar region while collecting COVID-19 oropharyngeal swab samples
Finding Pneumo
A wearable lung monitoring harness for patients at risk for respiratory diseases
IV Tronic
Expandable IV delivers larger flow rates by implementation of a mesh stent.
Tournifit
Smart Tourniquet That Applies a Personalized Pressure to Improve Venipuncture Success Rates.
LaparoTech
Laparoscopic instrument with an expandable tip to atraumatically push organs during surgery.
Easy Peesy
Urine Charge Urine Hat: Accurately Measures and Tracks Urine Output.
Plasma Boys
Cost-Effective and Fast Plasma Viscometer for COVID-19 Patients.
Catching Wire
Providing Interventional Radiologists a better storage and organizational device for medical guidewires.
The Incredibles
Intrapericardial Cardiac Compression Device
iProtect
A Sterilizable Smartphone Case That Enables a Surgeon to Take
Better Fit
Team Better Fit developed an inexpensive and quantitative respirator fit testing device to improve clinical access.
Joint Effort
Elbow Replacement Alternative to Reduce Loosening and Treat Severe Distal Humerus Fractures
We thank Our Empowering Capstone Leaders
Through advocacy, endorsement, and capital, these leaders have extended the capabilities of capstone and enabled students to develop unique clinical insight.
Susan Margulies
Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Vikas Sukhatme
Dean of Emory School of Medicine
thank you to all of this years Sponsors
