Senior Design Project

Senior Design Projects are chosen by the students. They range from building a race car suspension system to designing and diamond tip cutting tool mount. My project was generated by my partner, Philip Brown, from his summer internship at the Carolinas Medical Center. We were to design a measurement device that would be used to determine levels of spasticity in the lower leg of a patient. We spent two semesters designing and calculating the specified device and came up with a final design that was submitted to the CMC.

By measuring patient's muscle strength, spasticity, and tone, through a series of signals controlled by a computer using LabVIEW, our device produced a quantitative feedback loop for hospitals.

This data will help improve the diagnosis and treatment of spasticity related symptoms, and improve sugical outcomes.

A picture of the device can be seen below.