MEDesign – MEDesign-Medical Device Design

Mission

Provide undergraduates the opportunity to learn about, design, and prototype medical devices

Investigate the Medical Needs

Learn about Medical Devices

Innovate Medical Devices

Solve an Engineering Problem

GBMs: Every other Sunday @4:30 in the Foundry

Used to break up scar tissue in knee through movement of the legs

Currently expensive

Treatment is time consuming and inconvenient because the patient must lie down the entire time

Delayed wound closure for lower extreme fasciotomies

Transforming process from discrete weekly tightening of sutures by hand to a slow, continuous mechanical process

Explore potential to detect strokes, diagnose concussions, or predict seizures

Build a circuit to capture Brain signals

Create an algorithm to classify the signal

Daniel Gan (dcg23@duke.edu)

Shaun Wu (xw172@duke.edu)

Suraj Upadhya (su44@duke.edu)

Charles Turpin (cht16@duke.edu)

Alek Mishra (arm129@duke.edu)

Rebecca Edelman (rre6@duke.edu)

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