| Abstract |
This project’s sponsor is WOUNDCHEK™ Laboratories, a company that develops novel diagnostic products to improve outcomes in wound care. This team was tasked with developing a new clinical device that will diagnose chronic wounds, along with a complementary laboratory device that will test how effectively the clinical device works. The development of these devices was aided by the faculty team advisor, Don Foster, insight from the sponsor, and another senior design team from the biology department. The clinical device acts as a phone case for a Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone, and has its own circuitry, including batteries, UV LED lights, and two targeting lasers. This device functions by purging the oxygen out of polymer diagnostic tabs using UV light. The correct distance the clinical device needs to be to the polymer diagnostic tabs is determined by the intersection of the two targeting lasers. The complementing laboratory device was only partially developed as per the vision of the sponsor, and does not function at this point in time. In the future, the clinical device will be marketed and sold to hospitals, along with the diagnostic tabs the device uses, while the sponsor will further develop the laboratory device for their own testing. |
