D2.2: Student Design Competition

Year 4: Reports

Web Reports for the 2006-2007 Competition:

Twenty-five teams from sixteen universities submitted entries into the Year 4 2006-2007 competition in three areas: Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System, Accessible Infusion Pump Interface, and Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller. Details of the competition are listed at http://www.rerc-ami.org/ami/projects/d/2/2/year4/. 

The reports for this year's competion, as provided by web pages for each team, are provided for the three categories: Accessible home Vital Signs Monitoring System, Accessible Infusion Pump Interface , and Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Angle Controller.

This summary of the reports is also available as a pdf file.

Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System

Columbia University
Project Title: Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System
Web Address: www.columbia.edu/~af2123
Team Members: Brett Chung, Ashraf Fawzy, Maggie Jan, Jordan Muraskin
Faculty Advisor: Elisa Konofagou & Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

LeTourneau University
Project Title:  AMI
Web Address: http://www.letu.edu/opencms/opencms/_Academics/Engineering/engineering/student-projects/ami/
Team Members: Michael Cross, Minu Valayil, and Lee Shaver
Faculty Advisor: Roger Gonzalez and Paul Leiffer

Marquette University
Project Title -  B26: Accessible Home Vitals Monitoring System
Web Address: www.eng.mu.edu/rehab/b26/
However, it takes a while to load pages on that server if accessing off campus. The site is mirrored at:
www.stevebushman.com/b26/
Team Members: Steve Bushman, Andrew Okabe, Daniel Lomo-Tetty
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jack Winters

Temple University
Project Title: Accessible Home Vital Signs System
Web Address: http://astro.temple.edu/~tua12764/index.htm
Team Members: Dion Eckenrode, Schilan Costa, David Guisao, and Mulualem Ghebreselassie
Faculty Advisor:  Saroj K. Biswas, Electrical and Computer Engineering

St. Louis University
Project Title: Team ADD: The innovative design of a portable, home, multi-parameter vital sign monitor.
Web Address: http://165.134.24.22/~monitor/
Team Members: Adam Braden, Dana Hage & David Shirley
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Barnett, D.Sc.

St. Louis University
Project Title: Team Catfish: Accessible Home Telemonitoring Device
Web Address: http://pk01ms.slu.edu/~activitals/
Team Members: Jeff Blevins, Steve Foy, Chris Kieslich & Ed Pienkowski
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Barnett, D.Sc.

Texas A&M
Project Completed, No website

Trinity University
Project Title: Trinity University Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System
Web Address: http://www.trinity.edu/student_org/thetatau/
Team Members: Michael Giese, Katherine Avakian, Matt Bardwell, Kevin Wallof
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Farzan Aminian

Vanderbilt University
Project Title: At Home Vital Monitoring System
Web Address: Our website can be found two ways
http://www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/srdesign/2006/group22/
orhttp://www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/King/student_projects_2006.htm and click on project 22.
Team Members: Sunil Narayan, Stacey Tarver, Stephen Kepper, Adam Goodale, and Kristyn Eilertsen
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul King

University of Connecticut
Project Title: Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System
Web Address: http://www.bme.uconn.edu/bme/sendes/Spring07/Team3/index.htm
Team Members: Robert Croce, Jenna Sullivan
Faculty Advisor: John Enderle

University of Akron
Project Title: Accessible Home Vital Signs Monitoring System
Web Address: http://j3medical.googlepages.com
Team Members: Jessica Alley, John Konicek, Jay Sigler
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary C. Verstraete

Accessible Infusion Pump Interface

Columbia University
Project Title: InfuZe Technologies Continuous Infusion Pump Interface for the Visually and Dexterity Impaired
Web Address: http://www.columbia.edu/~pd2117/
Team Members: Pojen Deng, Ari Gontownik, Gilad Landan, Matthew Wong, Benjamin Yaghoubian
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Clark T. Hung

St. Louis University
Project Title: Pump-U-Up: SmartFusion Accessible Infusion Pump Interface
Web Address: http://165.134.24.22/~pump/
Team Members: Ryan Gerstner, Tony Huth & Corey Menius
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Barnett, D.Sc.

SUNY Binghamton
Project Title:  Infusion Pump Interface
Web Address:  http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~jhuang5
Team Members:  Ruslan Boyko, Mario Fantini, Alex Huang, Jianzhuang Huang, Libo Zhu
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Vladimir Nikulin

Texas A&M
Project Completed, No website

University of Connecticut
Project Title: Accessible Infusion Pump User-Interface
Web Address: http://www.bme.uconn.edu/sendes/Spring07/Team2/index.htm
Team Members: Hassam Sultan, Kevin Golebieski, Michael Cahill
Faculty Advisor: John Enderle

University of Rochester
Project Title: Inf-U-Tech: Accessible Home Infusion Pump
Web Address: http://mail.rochester.edu/~mau/RERC/Index.html 
Team Members: Mitchele Au, Brian Duffy, Justin Goldstein, Joseph Lust
Faculty Advisor: Professor Scott Seidma

Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller

Columbia University
Project Title: Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller
Web Address: http://www.columbia.edu/~ra2125
Team Members: Runjhun Agarwal, Susan Basile, Erin George, Lisa Tong, Mayu Yonebayashi
Faculty Advisor: Kevin D. Costa, PhD

IUPUI (Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis)
Project Title: Variable Speed Bed Back Angle Controller
Web Address: http://www.engr.iupui.edu/me/courses/designbed/index/index.html
Team Members: Andrew Burian, Kelly McGowan, Jeff Jones, Yoshiko Ishibashi, and Andy Cash
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jie Chen

Milwaukee School of Engineering
Project Title: Hospital Bed Controller (Standing Assist and Back-raise Device)
Web Address: http://myweb.msoe.edu/~kumpaty/RERConAMI/indexX.html
Team Members: Ron Covert, Scott Gillis, Brian Remick, Andrew Barry
Faculty Advisor: Subha K. Kumpaty

San Diego State University
 Project Title: Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller
 Web Address: http://sdsu-me490.tripod.com
 Team Members: Lermo Bognot, Christian Hernandez, Nam Hoang
 Faculty Advisor: Dr. Karen May-Newman, A.J. de Ruyter

St. Louis University
Project Title: Power-Assist Bed Back Angle Controller (Team Name: Bed, Back & Beyond)
Web Address: http://pages.slu.edu/org/macartrx/  (still under construction)
Team Members: Angela Baltz, Chris Heintzelman, Robert MacArthur, Magdalen Obiefule
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Barnett, D.Sc.

Texas A&M
Project Title: Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller
Web Address: http://lubox.net/teamaggie/
Team Members: Luan Nguyen, Stephen A. Long, Juan Abendao, and Sanjay Nair
Faculty Advisor: Zixiang Xiong

University of Connecticut
Project Title: Adjustable Back Angle Controller
Web Address: http://www.bme.uconn.edu/sendes/Spring07/Team8/index.htm
Team Members: Alaena DeStefano, Steven Frisk, Raymond Pennoyer
Faculty Advisor: John Enderle

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project Title: Accessible Power-Assist Hospital Bed Back Angle Controller
Web Address: http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~bcnelson/
Team Members: Brenton Nelson, Ibrahim Khansa, Katy Reed, Shikha
Faculty Advisor: Professor Willis J. Tompkins