Description: Design Team is the capstone design course for JHU’s BME undergraduate program. Teams of 5-10 students spend one year defining and implementing an impactful project based on real-world clinical problems. Projects are executed with mentorship and resources from CBID, BME, JHMI, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Jhpiego, APL, NATO, the FDA, and industry.
Course goal: To learn and execute the design process by: identifying and understanding an unmet clinical need, and developing an innovative technical solution.
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Design Team 2015-2016
2015-2016 DT Projects
DT01: Tremtex
Portable stimulation device for Parkinson’s Disease
DT02: CricSpike
Handheld cricothyrotomy assist device. An emergency airway technology for the 21st century
DT03: CompliaStent
CompliaStent has designed a catheter-deployed intra-aortic compliant graft that helps reduce aortic pressure amplification in patients suffering from aortic stiffening.
DT04: Plaqate
Plaqate has designed an atherectomy system that employs a novel differential cutting technique in order to increase the compliance of calcified plaque in coronary arteries while also reducing the procedural risks associated with the current standard of care.
DT05: Flapp
Flapp has developed a mobile app for surgeons to design and get feedback on local tissue flap designs in order to learn the technique and better plan procedures.
DT06: SureShunt
SureShunt aims to reduce the number of obstruction-related shunt failures and therefore reduce the cost of hydrocephalus treatment while increasing patient safety.
DT07: GaitAssist
GaitAssist is an novel orthosis designed to mitigate the symptoms of scissor gait. GaitAssist consists of two connected blocks that act as a physical barrier to separate the legs while walking.
DT08: NeoVate
A low cost, modular neonatal vital signs system designed for low resource settings.
DT09: Kubanda
Kubanda's mission is to make breast cancer treatment accessible to women in rural clinics in South Africa by providing locally available and affordable cryotherapy.
DT10: eXoid
eXoid's pill bottle automatically deactivates leftover prescription opioid pills, reducing the number of pills vulnerable to abuse.
DT11: EchoSpine
EchoSpine provides high-resolution ultrasound images at any depth, helping guide physicians to deep targets on the first attempt.
DT12: ExoRise
Patient transfer re-envisioned. Nurses no longer need to compromise their health and safety in order to transfer patients efficiently thanks to exoRise, a portable and easy to use powered transfer device.
DT13: CardiAcc
CardiAcc has developed a noninvasive monitoring system based on scientific insight into a cardiovascular model that combines patient-specific data and multiple biosignals into accurate measurements of cardiac output.
DT14: NeoSED
Neonatal Sepsis Early Detection System. A wearable pulse sensor with in-situ processing capabilities that produce a sepsis risk score.