Medical Device Development

BACKGROUND​

EGR 555: Mechatronic Device Innovation, is a culmination experience project-based graduate course on the design of mechatronic devices to address needs identified by hospital-based clinicians. This is a group project (7 members) where we worked in collaboration with Barrow Neurological Institute to design a novel glove to help people afflicted with deprivation of sense of temperature. The result was InSense- a Compensatory hand-based device to provide temperature feedback.

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PROCESS

The design process includes: needs finding; problem identification; prior art searches; strategy and concept generation; estimation; sketching; machine elements, ergonomics and prototyping. Delivered a professional-looking, functioning design that solves the unmet clinical need identified by the physicians that we were working with.

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OUTCOME

Achieved a solid understanding of development of healthcare prototyping from scratch including: ideation, prototyping, IP generation and publication procedures. Gained valuable experience in collaboration with clinicians and working in a tight schedule to execute on deliverables.

Presented our final design to a large group consisting of our classmates, stakeholders and evaluators.