A current project that I am working on is the Bench to Bedsides competition. I am on a team with 3 others, and we are working to create a device that will be able to be used in the medical field. The competition is used to get introduction for engineering students into the medical field and the business side of things. You have an idea that you must pitch to judges and the winner gets funding towards their company. Currently we are working on creating a device that will be able to track the pulse and SO2 levels of a patient while in surgery called the ET-Pulse-Ox.
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This is a sample of the hook I developed for Dr. Tommaso Lenzi's bionics research lab at the University of Utah. The bionic leg is attached to a hip exoskeleton that uses an actuator that is connected via these hooks and a piston. I developed this on SolidWorks and used tools such as finite element analysis to make sure it would comply with real world applications. The most challenging part was making sure it complied with the other pieces in the actuator while making sure it was structurally sound enough to interact with the piston through assumed years of use.
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"MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge is a contest for high school juniors and seniors. Through participation, students experience what it’s like to work as a team to tackle a real-world problem under time and resource constraints, akin to those faced by professional mathematicians working in industry. Extra credits awards are available for teams who choose to write or employ outstanding code as part of their solution. The Challenge awards $100,000" (m3challeng3.siam.org). The topic for our year of the competition was the impending danger that underage vaping is causing to youths in America. We had to research and write a paper on this in under 10 hours. Our group was made up of five students of different ages, genders, and ethnic groups, as to bring a diverse mindset. We researched effects and causes of vaping and constructed a paper showing all of our findings.
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