2016-2017: In collaboration with Medtronic, this student team designed a test system to measure the load versus leak rate of minimally invasive surgery devices to inform device development. The existing method for measuring load versus leak rate required multiple people…
Design of a Veress Needle Indicator for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Design of a Reusable Clip Applier Attachment for the Lapro-Clip Device
2014-2015: In collaboration with Medtronic (formerly Covidien), this student team designed a reusable clip applier attachment for the Lapro-ClipTM clip applier device, which is used in Minimally Invasive Surgery to ligate blood vessels. The goal of the attachment was to…