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2017 Capstone Projects

Below are the posters and abstracts for each of the 21 Senior Capstone Design student groups. This year’s primary judges will determine which groups receive 1st and 2nd place overall during the Capstone Design competition taking place May 10th, from 4 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

While we encourage all who are available to attend this year’s competition to do so, we ask those choosing the Best Abstract and Best Poster categories to email your top three picks for your assigned category by C.O.B. Monday, May 9, based on the files provided below. When you email your votes, please note the category and project titles/group numbers, beginning with your top pick.

Additional details about this year's judges and categories can be found at the bottom of this page.


Group 1 Poster
EsophaCool: A Transesophageal Blood Cooling Device to Reduce Ischemic Brain Injuryn
Team Members: Noah Bar-Shain, Leila Ettehadieh, Danielle Rossi, Deena Rubin, and Shannon Schreiner
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Group 2 Poster
PAPRS: Proximity-activated Patient Restraint System to Prevent Patient Dislodgement of Critical Support Devices
Team Members: Adam G. Berger, Hye (Grace) Chun, Ashlyn M. Lee, Casey G. Lim, Justin K. Shin
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Group 3 Poster
Dynamic Neonatal Ventilator Tubing Support Device
Team Members: Billy Beattie, Madison Lawhorn, Steve Madaras, Peter Simone, Shira Winston
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Group 4 Poster
Forced-Air Warming Blanket to Combat Perioperative Hypothermia in Infants and Children
Team Members: Michael Burgan, Megan Dang, Oluwatobi Fagbohun, Angelina Nou, Devayani Srinivasan
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Group 5 Poster
AgNovos Healthcare: Advanced Orthopedic Surgical Instrumentation and Delivery System
Team Members: Shawn Ulmer, Miguel Flores, Van Hoang, Ronelle Bautista, Jovy Batong
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Group 6 Poster
Resuscitation Sensors to Enable the First Breath of Life
Team Members: Kirstie Coombs, Tyler Hao, Jillian Ryan, Matt Schelin, Janna Wisniewski
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Group 7 Poster
The BiliMattress – A Phototherapy Treatment for Jaundice in Premature Infants
Team Members: Andrew Cheng, Marlena Hill, Oren Lagziel, Jonathan Lin, and Michael Tobin
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Group 8 Poster
Autogenic Drainage Spirometric Training System
Team Members: Andres Gonzalez, Woojae Koh, Erin Walter, Morgan Walter, and Jimmy Zhang
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Group 9 Poster
Mathematical Model of Cartilage Tissue Scaffolds for Use in Failure Testing and Tissue Regeneration Applications
Team Members: Tanner MacPhee, Dawei Wu, Lauren Jokl, Michael Amorjay-Ogar, Megan Tobin
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Group 10 Poster
Improvement to Percutaneous Dilation Tracheostomy Device
Team Members: Conor Bloomer, Paige Chan, Peter Chen, Scott Kivitz, Torrance Wang
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Group 11 Poster
Addressing Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony
Team Members: Zachary Bolten, Timothy Holzberg, Ben Kaplan, Catherine Panasenkov, and Reuven Rosen
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Group 12 Poster
Reinventing the Neonatal Phototherapy Eye Shield
Team Members: Deja Duncan, Allison Dunn, Jillian Holt, Nicole Sabatelli, and Brooke Sauter
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Group 13 Poster
Electrochromic Light Shielding Device for Neonatal Incubators
Team Members: Tomer Zohar, Ben Shafer, Dave Hesley, Elijah Biggs, Scott Ensel
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Group 14 Poster
Expandable Cryoablation Device for Pulmonary Tumors
Team Members: Nadia Alam, Danielle Brown, Jason Colasanti, Meghan Miller, and Kevin Reid
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Group 15 Poster
Physical Therapy Modulation Device for Intensive Care Unit Patients
Team Members: Matthew Din, Brian Morris, Courtney Restivo, Daniel Wang, and Olivia Webster
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Group 16 Poster
eValve - Radially Expanding Pulmonary Valve
Team Members: Joshua Kim, Sunghoon Lee, Sunny Lee, Phillip Tran, Jeffrey Yang
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Group 17 Poster
EpiStrips: Epinephrine Delivery via Sublingual Dissolvable Strips
Team Members: Neel Bhardwaj, Joseph Dawson, Darya Goudarzi Taemeh, Yvette Mann, Kevin Xiong
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Group 18 Poster
Implementation of Single Dynamic Zeolite-Bed within Oxygen Concentrator for Low Resource Settings
Team Members: Julie Boylan, Diana Curtis, Pierrot Nsengimana, Lalithasri Ramasubramanian, Paul Wampler
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Group 19 Poster
Development of a Sensored Peripheral Venous Catheter That Verifies its Placement in the Vein
Team Members: Sriramya Ayyagari, Chris Comfort, Gino DeFilippo, Dani Khalilzadeh, Anuj Lagowala
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Group 20 Poster
Computational Modeling of Cell Delivery through a Catheter
Team Members: Andrew Lee, Troy Hagerman, Ki Kim
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Group 21 Poster
Empirical Modeling of CO2 Permeability through Polymer Membranes to Enhance Novel Gas Phase Metabolic Sensing in BD’s Bactec Blood Diagnostic
Team Members: Chad Artman, Sean Barker, Nathanael Bowen, and Jordan Gorsuch
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Judges

This year's primary judges (those choosing 1st and 2nd place overall winners on May 10th) are:

  • Dr. Anant Agrawal, Food and Drug Administration
  • Dr. Kevin Cleary, Children's National Health System
  • Dr. Martha Connolly, Maryland Industrial Partnerships
  • Dr. Gregg Duncan, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
  • Dr. Ryan Sochol, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
  • Dr. Martha Wang, Fischell Department of Bioengineering

This year's special category judges are:

  • Fischell Department of Bioengineering Advisory Board
    Choosing the Award for Translational Design
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore collaborators
    Choosing the MPower Award
  • The Bioengineering Graduate Student Society
    Choosing Best Abstract and Best Poster via online vote.

Your judging is very important and greatly appreciated! We invite all judges—both primary judges and special category award judges—to attend this year’s competition and distribute their award(s) to this year’s winners.

Questions? Please contact Bioengineering Assistant Director of Communications Alyssa Wolice with questions about voting.




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