As Baltimore continues to urbanize, monitoring and preserving its biodiversity is critical. This project proposes a scalable, automated system for bird population monitoring using passive acoustic sensing. Compact, low-power devices will be deployed to continuously capture bird chirps. Each unit features a microphone, microcontroller for real-time audio processing, GPS for location tagging, and wireless communication for data transmission. Onboard algorithms will classify bird species by their vocalizations and log activity patterns over time. Aggregated data will reveal trends in species distribution, vocalization frequency, and long-term population changes.

Glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, disproportionately affects patients in low- and middle-income countries. Several factors contribute to vision loss, including lack of access to care, late-stage diagnosis, nonadherence to treatment, and inconsistent follow-up. Glaucoma is a chronic disease that requires constant monitoring and long-term management. Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement is a primary means of monitoring glaucoma since IOP reduction is the only modifiable risk factor. Patients are currently reliant on periodic ophthalmologist visits to measure IOP, which prevents patients from properly monitoring their disease state and prevents ophthalmologists from making timely, fully-informed treatment decisions. OcuSound is an accurate, noninvasive tonometer that uses sound waves and the acoustic properties of the eye for self-monitoring of IOP. Designed for convenient, at-home patient use, this low-cost, intuitive device enables glaucoma patients to track a key metric in glaucoma care, increasing disease awareness and timely follow-up care to prevent glaucomatous vision loss.

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), for males assigned at birth, is characterized as involuntary urine leakage due to physical exertion that can severely impact the physical, mental, and social well-being of those affected, causing around 80% of patients to refuse to seek treatment. This condition can arise after a patient has undergone a prostatectomy, with nearly 71% of cases resulting in SUI. Existing treatments, such as adult diapers, can cause skin irritation and infection as well as incur a heavy financial burden. Others, like clamps, can be painful and may cause urethral diverticulum and tissue necrosis. Moreover, the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) is prone to mechanical failure as well as cuff erosion, requiring surgery to repair and/or replace. As such, due to these inefficacies, our team seeks to create a novel and comfortable solution which patients may use to return themselves to a feeling of normalcy in their daily lives.

This project aims to transform the structure of carbon with the addition of Si into Ni-C alloys. Melt-spinning is a process that has cooling rates of up to 10,000 K/s, which creates a supersaturated solid solution of carbon in a nickel matrix in a thin metal ribbon. Heat treatment allows the carbon phase to precipitate out, which with the stresses from melt-spinning and addition of silicon transforms it from a hexagonal graphitic structure to diamond cubic at room pressure. Diamond carbon nanoparticles (50-500nm) have a wide variety of uses, including as an abrasive or catalysis. This system can also be leveraged in additive manufacturing, where structural carbon or diamond structures could be directly printed with no fillers or additives.