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2024 Design
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Save the Date! Design Day 2025 is on April 29.

Save the Date! Design Day 2025 is on April 29.

The Baltimore Streetcar Museum: Revitalizing the Site and Reusing the Bollman Truss Bridge

The Baltimore Streetcar Museum located on Falls Road offers a walk down Baltimore’s triumphant past of public transportation. There are many current issues regarding accessibility to the museum, stormwater management, and current structures with no use within its property lines. This project looks into the entire site plan of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. This includes a structural analysis of the Bollman truss that previously served streetcars and cars as the Lombard Street bridge from 1877 to the 1970s, and to reuse it as a car entry to the Maryland & Pennsylvania Roundhouse. A proposed plan of a pedestrian bridge that spans over Jones Falls was completed to connect a nearby light rail stop to the museum area, to bolster foot traffic into the area. Lastly, there are plans for revitalization and restoration of existing structures within the property lines to improve safety for visitors while tracking the floodplain.

AR Virtual Fitting Mirror

Fitura is an AR-powered virtual fitting mirror changing how people buy clothes online. By combining real-time 3D garment visualization with AI-powered sizing recommendations, Fitura enables users to virtually try on clothes on their phone, at home, or in a retail store before making a purchase. This helps to reduce returns, increase shopper confidence, and create a more personalized and sustainable shopping experience. Fitura is available to B2B customers such as fashion retailers and e-commerce platforms through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and smart mirroring integrations, as well as to B2C users through a free mobile app. Backed by user research and expert validation, our solutions stand out with dynamic 360° fitting, cross-brand size consistency, and multi-platform compatibility. Fitura is redefining the future of fashion with “try before you buy”.

VRx: TBI Neuromonitoring

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) accounts for about 10% of all sports-related injuries each year, posing serious health risks if athletes return to play too soon. Although return-to-play protocols exist, current diagnostic tools like SCAT, ImPACT, and SWAY lack objective biomarkers to accurately guide recovery decisions. Eye movements and pupillary responses have shown promise as potential biomarkers for neurological recovery. Wearable immersive technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), offer standardized, quantifiable assessments of neurocognitive function. Our team developed a VR-based neuromonitoring system using the Meta Quest Pro 3 to track real-time eye metrics during interactive cognitive and vestibulo-ocular tasks. The system adapts task difficulty while collecting continuous ocular data. Built in Unity, the platform demonstrated reproducible metrics and strong tolerability in healthy subjects. This proof-of-concept highlights the potential of VR to objectively assess oculomotor function, providing a more objective and engaging approach to tracking concussion recovery and enhancing patient safety.

Taliyah

Biomedical Engineering

It is wonderful to watch students from different departments work together to support better engineering design opportunities at Hopkins.

To identify what can satisfy students from every engineering perspective has been both challenging and rewarding, as I’ve learned leading the multidisciplinary student advisory board for the Design Center.

Kareem

Computer Engineering

The First Year Seminar Design CornerStone helped me get exposed to a wide range of engineering disciplines and introduced me to all the makerspace and departments opportunities at Hopkins!

I am excited to take advantage of all the resources available to strengthen my engineering skills.

Alexander

Materials Science and Engineering

Being granted the opportunity to lead a design team has offered me the skillset necessary to apply both engineering and leadership skills in a collaborative environment. I look forward to utilizing these experiences in the medical device space!

 
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