Projects

BreatheRight

September 2023 - Present

BreatheRight is a novel Biomedical Diagnostic Device that tracks inhaler medication usage, the user's pulmonary function, and also provides autonomous warnings for any incoming respiratory attacks. Our mission was to find a convenient way to monitor pulmonary function in people suffering from asthma to help them manage their respiratory illness better. We wanted to develop a device that was impactful in the long-run, specifically for disenfranchised communities to help reduce the financial burden created by numerous emergency department visits and hospitalizations due to uncontrolled asthma. BreatheRight is what solidified my passion for product development as I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process of developing the device, researching the market, and getting to meet and connect with such diverse sets of people. We followed the Design Thinking Process to develop this device, and using this method we were able to develop a refined prototype that has impressed the judges and audience of two engineering competitions and MedTech industry partners enough to have received $3500 in awards. We have now entered our project to the prestigious 'NIH DEBUT competition' as well as the Medtronic 'BMES student Design competition.' My role in this project included coming up with the idea, putting the team together, reaching out to stakeholders (investors, doctors, and patients) as well as professors and classmates to receive continuous feedback throughout development process, ordering parts, device code, designing intuitive features based on feedback, creating initial CAD models, 3D printing the prototype, doing market research and analysis, creating Business presentations, and entering team into networking events and competitions.


Skills I have gained and developed from this project:

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Awards:

Inhaler CAD

FPGA Tennis Game

March 2023 - May 2023

My Friend and I developed a ping pong game on an FPGA using Verilog as part of a course (EC311- Introduction to Logic Design).


Two-Player Game rules:

  1. Any player can double click their button and the game will start
  2. The score increments each time the opponent misses the 'Ball' and the game continues until one of the players score total of three.
  3. The speed of the ball increases as it is 'hit' from one side to another and if a player misses, the speed resets to its original speed

Single-Player (squash mode) Game rules:

  1. Player can click their button and the game will start
  2. The score increments each time 'Ball' is 'hit'
  3. The speed of the ball increases as it is 'hit' from one side to another and if a player misses, the score resets to zero

This was a very rewarding project which I enjoyed doing a lot because we were required to create a game on an FPGA with very little introduction to verilog, we had to configure the seven segment LED display with no working knowledge of it, and we had a major time constraint. This method of instruction is usually very beneficial for me because it allowed me to get as creative as possible and I was able to learn a new programming language in a much quicker way.

PingPong Pic

Automated Wheelchair Lights

September 2022 - December 2022

A team of three other students and I developed user-friendly, detachable, rechargeable, and voice-controlled wheelchair lights that automatically respond to the brightness of the environment and provide front/rear illumination for people with mobility-related disabilities as part of a course (EK210- Introduction to Engineering Design). We were able to create a working prototype which used 3 housing components, one for the 12V battery and the circuit, and the other two for front and rear illumination. The most difficult part was configuring the voice module but we managed to make it work and create a fully functional device. The entire process was incredibly challenging but that is what made it so fun as it was my first time using tinkering techniques, developing a circuit to actually create a functioning device, learning arduino code, and coming up with creative ways to overcome unexpected obstacles/bugs.


Skills I have gained and developed from this project:

Wheelchair Pic

Truss Project

November 2022 - December 2022

My friend and I developed a Truss within strict cost, time, member length, and load constraints as part of a course project (Engineering mechanics I). Our Truss held up to 90 ounces before it began to buckle which is the highest load anyone's truss was able to hold (out of the entire engineering batch of 2025). we optimised our truss dimensions based on load, and tried to distribute the load across all of the compression joints as equally as possible. As part of the planning process, and as per the course requirements, I developed an analyzation tool to determine member forces, failure points, maximum load capacity, and cost ratio, using MATLAB for more efficiency. The biggest constraint in regards to building the Truss was the minimum member length of 7 inches. Luckily, we ended up with a good load-to-cost ratio of $2.44 per ounce, and 0.409 oz per dollar. An important decision we made while designing the truss was to create an arch as we learned that this would allow the truss to contain more members while also maintaining the required geometry. Download MATLAB code

Truss Drawing Truss Pic

Coding Projects

September 2021 - Present

Programming Languages and tools learned from projects and coursework mentioned above and below:


Personal Portfolio

July 2024 - Present

I wanted a place to document all my projects, work experiences, and course work. I also wanted to learn how to build a website from scratch, design it, and make it interactive. So I built this website over the course of 1 and a half weeks by teaching myself HTML, CSS, and javaScript. This portfolio is definitely still a work in process in terms of the framework and design. I wanted to put all of my content on this website before I began getting into the details of design and layout to make that process easier. Overall, it is a really fun process because I enjoy programming and learning new programming languages and design tools. I'm thinking of learning to use figma to create a better design for this portfolio.

Skills: HTML, CSS, JS.

C/C++ Invoice Generator

June 28th 2024
I wanted to brush up on my C/C++ skills before I began building my portfolio because I thought that the transition from having a good working knowledge of C/C++ to learning javaScript would feel easier for me and so I created an invoice generator for billing purposes without using any extra help from youtube or AI. Since the last time I used C/C++ was 3 years ago, it took a week for me to brush up on all the topics (from basic syntax to Linked Lists).

The invoice generator has 3 functions:

  1. Generate an Invoice
  2. View all Invoices
  3. Search an Invoice
Link to code

Measurements and analysis using MATLAB and Python

January 2024 - May 2024
Biomedical measurements (BE 493) was a laboratory based class which used various types of Biomedical instruments for taking measuremnts. One of the highlights of this course was using MATLAB and/or Python to analyze all of our data from these measurements.
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