Wireless Birthing Force Transmitter
A team of four BME undergraduates in the department's annual design competition invented a wireless transmitter that measures the amount of force used while delivering a baby. This unobtrusive device could be used to help identify safer delivery methods for a complicated birth by minimizing the potential for injury.
The students, who worked with Dr. Edith Gurewitsch from the School of Medicine's Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, were named finalists in the prestigious National Collegiate Inventors Competition for this invention. Two of the students and Dr. Robert Allen from Biomedical Engineering have filed for a patent for their device.
Sponsor
- Edith Gurewitsch, MD, Gynecology and Obstetrics, JHU School of Medicine
Undergraduate Student Design Team Members
- William Tam
- Yen Shi (Gillian) Hoe
- Stanley Huang
- I-Jean Khoo
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