Senior Design Expo Projects 2020

Rain Protection for SCI Patients Retaining Arm/Hand Function

Many spinal cord injury (SCI) patients are confined to using a wheelchair for mobility. Propelling wheelchairs manually is a difficult task in rainy circumstances due to several factors. A protective, retractable canopy was proposed to attach to manual wheelchairs in order to provide protection.

Molly Sullivan

ISlice is designed to resize clusters for optimal diffusion unlike traditional filters that remove clusters larger than 150μm. ISlice utilizes titanium mesh to reduce the cluster size without damaging the cells or decreasing the cell product volume.

Amanda Beyrer, Nina DiSandro, Sophia Pete

OtoDoc: an Ear Examination Documentation App

In conjunction with the digital otoscope, the OtoDoc software imaged the tympanic membrane of the ear, allowed for autocorrection of the image, and generated a report to include vital information regarding the patient's ear health.

Tyra Collins, Yiran Ma, Vignesh Krishnamoorthy, Disha Patel

Patient Operated Cooling Device for Knee

The goal of this project is to create a device that maintains a cool temperature on the knee and can be operated by the patient without the help of a caretaker.

Carolyn Niosi, Patrice Essien, Milan Dower, Jason Bowman

Using a 3D bioprinter, we developed a cellular construct composed of mouse embryonic spinal progenitor cells with controlled organization. These constructs will be able to be printed with high reproducibility for high-throughput testing of new cell culture strategies.

Kate Anderson, Sydney Boyd, Samuel Glover, Spencer Reid

Larissa Meza, Victoria Popp, Melissa Suarez, Mary Vollmar, Hanna Wollin

Mitigating Difficulties Associated with the Donning of Compression Stockings

Keegan Gibson, Amy Verghese, Maelle Arboite, Hunter Hampton

Rapid Serological Pipette Opener

The aim of this project is to develop a one-hand serological pipette opener device. A concave blade magnet-secured mechanism was employed with 3D printed carbon- nylon components.

Gaurav Gupta, JP Musi, Nimesh Nagururu, Sabah Ostaiza

At-Home Asthma Monitor: Combining Capnometry & Spirometry

We combined capnometry and spirometry clinical measurements into a single system to reduce the number of emergency room visits due to asthma exacerbations that are result from noncompliance to physician-established treatment plans.

Carolina Fernandez, Charlotte Williams, Anthony Deana, and Jeffrey Serville

Resuscitation Mouthpiece: An Improved Design to Improve Patient Recovery

The Resuscitation Mouthpiece is meant to circumvent these issues by utilizing a minimalistic design that uses the internal moisture present within the oral cavity to form an airtight seal in a wider range of patients.

Design and Methodology of a Sampling Device for the In Vivo Collection of Gut Metabolites

We designed an orally consumable device that would allow for the untargeted sampling of the gut microbiome in a non-invasive, qualitative, and semi-quantitative manner. We developed an associated clinical methodology to analyze the binding capacity of our microbeads.

SCI Wrist Splint

Our project looks to utilize 3D printing to create an adjustable wrist splint for SCI patients with tetraplegia.

Sebastian Gallo, Ryan Gordon, Taylor Lindstrom, Hiab Hagos, Amirah Wright

Olfactory Sensory Evoked Potentials

Natalie de Vinck

A'Doriann Bradley, Duncan Duff-Gray, Nicholas Leira, Yusuf Mohamed, Ceon Wong

Coral Gables Sustainability Museum

Sabal Engineering proposes a Coral Gables Sustainability Museum with a botanical garden for the 536 Coral Way development. We expect that the construction of a sustainability museum with displays in sustainable design, construction, and maintenance, will propel the city into an environmentally conscious and “smart- city” future.

Alanna Muldowney, Kayla Watts, Trent D’Alessio, Sarah Alrasheed, Lucas Goldoni, Matteus Carvalho, Ruben Brienco

Dr. Matthew Trussoni, Dr. Esber Andiroglu, Dr. Samir Elmir, Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele

A Modern Day Eden

EDEN Consulting Engineering was tasked with imagining a purpose for an empty lot in downtown Coral Gables, three blocks from city hall, across from a church, and surrounded by a residential neighborhood.

Marie Guyer, Maria Quezada, Xuyuan Li, Alec Basseda, Abdulaziz Al enezi, Jessica Smusz

Dr. Esber Andiroglu, Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Matthew Trussoni

The Green Village

At Nexxus Engineering we strive to create in a way that is sustainable for the future. The Green Village integrates sustainable systems with high end luxurious designs. We have combined methods to conserve energy and water use without compromising comfort in our development of 7 townhomes.

Francisco Alberdi,  Mohamed Alkhalifa,  Cynthia Dorrego, Aaron Janci Julia Levay, Adrielle Lima, Brianna Woolfolk

AQUA at Merrick Park

Our vision for the Merrick Park development is to create a working and community space which diversifies the economic landscape and provides consistent return on investment, is harmonious with existing residential and commercial spaces, and provides a focal point for community life.

Addison Climo, Jeremy Davis, Grant De La Vasselais, Tejan Joshi, David Lipkin, Maria Troncoso, Riccardo Versace

Dr. Matthew Trussoni, Dr. Esber Andiroglu, and Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele

The Visionary

At Canes Engineering Associates, our vision for the Merrick Park site development is to revolutionize the area into a mixed use urban center that embraces the values and precedents set by its surrounding area through innovative design and sustainable engineering practices.

Alex Plumb, Lingjing Shi, Firas Al-bar, Abigail Weaver, Ben Halee, Leonardo Coll, Kevin Hidalgo

Dr. Matthew Trussoni, Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Samir Elmir, Dr. Esber Andiroglu

X-Hab Miami: CERES Project

Dr. Victoria Coverstone, Dr. Michael Swain, Dr. Michael Scordilis

Checkpoint: People Tracker at your Favorite Spots

Checkpoint is a people counter, intended to be used to help people comply with social distancing recommendations in public venues. It will enable business owners, workers, and patrons to be certain that it is safe to enter the venue.

Albarracin, Juliana; Zmieva, Marina; Barreat, Maria

Dr. Michael Scordilis

Wide FOV Fundus Camera for Telemedicine

Our handheld system includes a Raspberry Pi board, a touch screen display, a customized optical lens group, a ring LED light, and a Li-battery. This customized low-cost handheld fundus camera provides better image quality and offer more operational features than traditional portable fundus cameras.

Dunhan Chen, Chang Zhang

Dr. Michael Wang

Humo: Fake Information Detector

This project gives a new solution to fight fake news focusing on the social media as the social media is the epicenter for those kind of information, the project is done using Machine Learning and a bot on Telegram.

Hussain Alkhateeb , Mohammed Baaqail

Dr. Lokesh Ramamoorthi

PassKeep: Encrypted USB Password Keeper

The goal of the project was to create a USB dongle hosting a server that can only be accessed through a physical connection to the device. It will contain a file system with full encryption of stored data. It would also be able to generate random passwords for user registration.

Nisha Chaudhari, Mart Francisco, Sean Seruya

pow-eARth: Augmented-Reality Power Grid Overlay for Real-Time Emergency Response

We aim to help expedite the restoration process of bringing power utilities back online. Our proposed solution is to overlay a grid of electrical facility information leveraging augmented reality (AR) technology.

David Elimelech, Peyton Hazama, Juan Lopez, Matthew Palkimas

Dr. Hammam Alsafrjalani

Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Sensor

This project aims to make use of the technology from another angle: education. Using low-cost, 3D-printed materials and widely available software like LabView and MATLAB, a prototype SPR-based sensor was created

Jordane Bloomfield, Jiawei Wang, Slavi Kolev

Person to Pet: Application Link Human with Pet

An application developed using Dart and Flutter. The purpose of P2P is to connect those who do not own pets with people who do own pets. By connecting these users, P2P hopes enrich both their lives and the pets’ lives through novel experiences.

Shing Ryan Cheng, Haoyu Wang

Dr. Lokesh Saravanan Ramamoorthi

FEAM Billing Process Re-Engineering

The aim of this project is to utilize engineering methodology to develop a practical solution to standardize the billing process of FEAM, an aviation Maintenance and Repair Organization.

Brianne Bujnowski, Olivia Glegg, Lauren Guidarelli

Dr. Jaime Buitrago, Dr. Nina Miville

Machine-Learning Predictive Model

Ryder Inc., is a provider of heavy transportation equipment and sells these vehicles either as a retail or wholesale. Ryder would benefit from a model that will predict future selling prices (proceeds) of the vehicles based on their attributes and historical proceeds.

Tyler Busby, Elikem Tamaklo, Fawaz Almoneef

Dr. Jaime Buitrago

Planogram Excellence Program

The production of service sector industries is very important in such a competitive environment. In this study, we reduce the delays in Planogram Excellence program and increases the productivity of this services.

Namir Hakem

Smart Trouble Ticket

Abdullah Aldakheel, Juel Gerard Johnson, Matthew Dillon Tartt

Dr. Ramin Moghaddass, Dr. Jaime Buitrago

IMC Health Referral

Our project focuses on the staffing levels and referral process at IMC health. Our goal was to reduce cost and time for the company in both the referral department and the queue.

Kate Molinero, Julieta  Surrentini

Dr. Vincent Omachonu

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

One of the main challenges of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute encounters is the high congestion of the system. Due to this complex situation, it
was necessary to analyze Bascom Palmer’s service as a system in order to optimize the process, evaluate and provide alternatives to decrease patient waiting times in the system.

Anabella Martinelli, Carolina Pereira, Khaled Alabduljalil

Norwegian Cruise Line: Predictive Modeling

In this study we have developed a new method for NCL’s Casinos at Sea team to approach compensating customers on their future trips. By eliminating steps and tools from their old process and congregating everything into one simple and easy to use tool.

Rafael Norman Extrakt, Francisco Marcos, Narciso Munoz Legarre

Dr. John Yao, Dr. Nina Miville, Dr. Jaime Buitrago

Business Intelligence at FEAM

Our team designed a solution so that FEAM can continue to capture the data from the ten reports that can then be used later for a dashboard. We designed the frontend forms and application users will interact with to enter data, along with the design and layout of the dashboard.

Mizelle Hornilla, Maxwell Levin, and Robert Gadon

Investigation on Makerspaces

The University of Miami has a plethora of advanced digital fabrication labs colloquially known as Makerspaces. These labs feature specialized machines such as 3D Printers, CNC Machines, Laser Cutters and Programable Robots. Unfortunately, the majority of makerspaces in UM’s ecosystem operate in isolation from one another, with varying degrees of transparency, accessibility, and restrictions.

Christopher Wiese, Zeshan Aziz

Dr. Nina Miville, Troy Thompson

MSMC – Sterile Processing Department Staffing

A national benchmarking study assessed that Mount Sinai’s Sterile Processing Department falls above the 75th percentile of the nation’s hospitals in terms of worked hours per unit, as measured by the number of trays processed.

Khaled AlSabeeh, Abdulaziz AlMansour, Jasem AlRoumi

NCL Process Improvement: Air Department

For the project, the team analyzed all teams involved in the booking of the promotion in order to deliver solutions that promote automation, organization and an improved simplified process.

Isabel C. Figueredo, Daniela A. Gonzalez, Paula S. Carvajales

Dr. Nina Miville, Dr. Jaime Buitrago

Diagnostic Imaging Staff Optimization

The team was assigned to evaluate, prioritize and request workflow improvements and repairs on issues that exist in the department. This evaluation may serve as a useful reference to Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSMC) and other hospitals.

Maryam Aljasem, Al Mahdi Bokhait, Faisal Binsaeed

Compressed Air Supercharging Unit

This project develops a compressed air supercharging system for use in an automobile engine.

Callahan O’Neal, Benjamin Amsterdam, Andrew Schwee, Gabriel Dopazo, Quinton Victor

X-Hab Miami: CERES Project

Proper management of the volume of critically grown food and their related resources will be paramount for future mission success in long-term human exploration. A volume optimized system was designed, utilizing robotic elements for resource management.

German Acosta Quiros, Sarah Franceski, Julie Llano, Ryan Noell, Nathaniel Furman

Dr. Victoria Coverstone, Dr. Michael Swain, Dr. Michael Scordilis

Diver Launch & Retrieval Apparatus

The goal of this project is to design an apparatus that would ensure the safety of adaptive divers during the most dangerous aspects of a dive trip – transfers – to create access to diving in suboptimal conditions.

Hussein Sharqawi, Jeff Eberhardt, Meghan Hayden, Joseph Christensen

Dr. Ines Basalo

Eccentric Exercise Modification Apparatus

Our apparatus is designed to modify a standard cable weight machine into one that can put focus onto the eccentric portion of the exercise.

Mansoor Alhamzah, Blake Bannister, Alec Falk, Michael Pressman

Dr. Matthew Swain

High Endurance Rotating-Wing Mars Exploration Spacecraft

This project describes the conceptual design of a High Endurance, Rotating-wing, Mars Exploration Spacecraft (HERMES).

Cameron Byrd, Marco Emmanuel, Diego Ortiz, Dakota Stone, Lei Wang

Dr. GeCheng Zha

Lightweight Wheel for HERC

The two main objectives of this project were to design a lightweight wheel made of carbon fiber and to build 4 of these wheels for the HERC competition.

Allana Persaud, Brandon Martin, Nicole Lindblom, Juan Aponte Gonzalez

Dr. Ryan Karkkainen, Dr. Emrah Celik

Design and Testing of Hybrid Rocket

This project aims to design and test hybrid rocket composite fuel ports with complex geometries.

Yousef Alduaij, Alejandro Hernandez, Martin Herrera, Colin Kasuska

Dr. Victoria Coverstone

Solar Powered Glider

This project aims to provide a more enjoyable experience for the users of the University of Miami’s gliders.

Carly Davey, Elleanna Patterson, Connor Murphy, Alexander Gerscovich, Kaitlyn Deliser

Dr. Matthew Swain

The Multisport Cleat

The goal of this project was to design a children’s cleat that can be effectively used in soccer, baseball/softball, and football. To achieve this, two different cleats were designed. 

Sergio Ambrogi, Jordan Chabot, Esther Clode, Garrett Coss

Dr. Ines Basalo