Digital Dietary Recorder System
Objectives:
- Capturing volume of a small object
(food item for this application)
- Increasing the accuracy of measuring
dietary intake compared to the
traditional hand measuring method.
Current Status:
- Pilot study with Fred Hutch Cancer
Center
- Optimizing the algorithm and
calculated volume
- Building an automatic calibrator
Skillsets we need: image processing,
hardware design, business development,
Android programming
Accomplishments:
- Built and tested prototype V2.0
- Designed a pilot study with Fred Hutch
Cancer Center
Digital Ostomy Analysis Tool
Objectives:
- A digital add-on tool to an existing
ostomy solution
- Increasing the accuracy of measuring
dietary intake compared to the
traditional hand measuring method.
- Launch on MedStartr platform
Current Status:
- 3D reconstructing of a stoma
- Outputting the exact dimensions
- Creating a user-friendly interface
- Writing a provisional patent
Skillsets we need: image processing,
business development, hardware design
Accomplishments:
- Completed an early prototype for
prove of concept
- Started collaboration with leading
surgeons
- Initial interest for NIH
Personal Exposure Monitor
Objectives:
- Design a pre-concentrator for a wide
variety of chemical analysis systems,
such as Microfluidics, RAMAN, TIRF,
LIBS, dielectrometry
- Create a universal low-cost sampling
platform
Current Status:
- Conceptual design finished
- Research team being formed
Skillsets we need: COMSOL, SolidWorks,
fluid mechanics analysis, embedded
electronics design
Accomplishments:
- Conducted a successful preliminary
demonstration with the Department of
Homeland Security
Sensor Design
Objectives:
- Design wearable sensors for detection
of material properties
Current Status:
- Assembling a new team this fall
Accomplishments:
- Designed large scale versions, need to
move towards miniature versions
Bluetooth Enabled Digital Scale
for Toothpaste Usage Monitoring
Objectives:
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To accurately read gram measurements of
toothpaste containers on the digital scale with an
attached microcontroller and wirelessly transmit
the data to smartphones using a Bluetooth
antenna
To develop smartphone applications on iOS and
Android operating systems to communicate with
the digital scale and manage the stored
measurements
To minimize total cost of the system while also
making it compact and portable
Current Status:
Accomplishments:
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Developing mobile applications for iOS and
Android operating systems
- Reducing the overall size of the added
components attached to the digital scale
- Increasing the output range of the Bluetooth
module to detect lower scale measurements for
the case of nearly empty toothpaste containers
Skillsets we need: PCB design, programming of
RFDuino, Androi, iOS, mechanical design
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Connected a microcontroller and Bluetooth
antenna to a digital scale that estimates
measurements
Connected the Bluetooth digital scale to iOS and
Android smartphones
Reduced the size of external components to a
small box attached to the digital scale
Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs)
Objectives:
- Removing fine particles from the air stream
- Lowering the chance of the particle
reentrainment by trapping particles in
secured spaces (foam-covered or guidanceplate-covered) where have fewer
disturbances than bare collecting electrode
FC-ESP
GPC-ESP
Current Status:
- Reassembling the second prototype with
delicate electrodes
- Estimating the collection efficiency by using
Deutsch-Anderson equation
- Building a new prototype for the field
testing at R217 in POB
Skillsets we need: mechanical design,
experiments, data analysis
Accomplishments:
- Measured the collection efficiencies under
various corona voltages, repelling voltages,
and airflow velocities
- Estimated the energy efficiency
- Simulated the flow field, electric field, and
particle trajectory
- Third-party test
High Reliability Micro-Pump
Pump 1L/min
Liquid Bearing Force
Current Status:
Surface shapes for COMSOL simulation defined
Next steps:
• Design of Experiments using COMSOL to
confirm options for 1L/min and fluid
bearing performance is practical
• Built/test a 3D printed plastic prototype
Skillsets we need: COMSOL modeling, fluid
Objectives:
• >6 years life, ~ $10.00 cost to build
• 100 times the MTBF of current industry
alternatives
• Match computer industry requirements for
liquid cooling
• Provide high value in the adjacent $57B
pump markets where extreme reliability, all
plastic fluid path and low cost are important
Accomplishments:
- Market requirements and size estimate
completed
- Research phases defined
- Business Plan transition defined
- Patent draft completed
- Design options for exploration defined
- Plastic experts and HPC experts providing
advice
STREAM Tools: Technical Writing for Teams
Definition
Stage
Preparation
Stage
Writing
Stage
Completion
Stage
Select your team
members
Evaluate historical
documents
Enter content
Copyedit
Hold a kick off
meeting
Populate your file
depository
Request that team
members submit
their drafts
Send out for a
final review of
content and clarity
Formulate
purpose
Create a
comprehensive
outline of the
document
Verify that each
section is going in
the right direction
Proofread
Analyze audience
Populate all
sections with
“yellow text”
Construct the
whole document
Submit the
document
Select the
optimum
combination of
STREAM Tools
Distribute content
creation tasks
among team
members
Revise for
content, distribute
additional writing
tasks
Conduct the final
process
improvement
review session
Objectives:
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To produce high-quality documentation with
multiple internal and external collaborators,
within short periods of time
To develop high quality technical documents that
are visually consistent, and meet stringent
formatting requirements
To streamline the writing process, to minimize
costs and burdens associated with training new
collaborators into the STREAM Tools system
To adapt and optimize new software and
technologies into the SREAM Tools system
Current Status:
Accomplishments:
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Developing short courses for industry and
academia
- Developing innovative templates for technical
societies and publishers
- Integrating with project management software
- Designing software add-ons
Skillsets we need: technical writing, programming in
XML, Visual Basic.
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EE393: Advanced Technical Writing (2013-present)
taught by Profs Alexander Mamishev, Denise
Wilson, and Payman Arabshahi
Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using
Microsoft Word (2013) by Alexander Mamishev
and Murray Sargent
Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools
Handbook (2010) by Alexander Mamishev and
Sean Williams