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2024 Design
Day projects

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

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

Skin Tone Calibration of Pulse Oximeter Oxygen Saturation Data

Our project aims to enhance the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings across all skin tones to address the critical issue of hidden hypoxemia, particularly prevalent among individuals with darker skin. Our innovative approach uses machine learning to estimate oxygen saturation estimation (SaO2) from standard SpO2 readings by integrating additional patient health data and a race-dependent quantification of skin tone. We hope to detect hypoxemia more accurately, reduce racial disparities in healthcare, and improve overall patient outcomes. This initiative is backed by studies showing that existing SpO2 readings often fail to reveal low oxygen levels in darker-skinned patients, leading to potentially severe undiagnosed conditions. Our approach is to ensure that pulse oximetry—a vital tool in medical diagnostics—is reliable and equitable for all patients.

Systematic Tuning Mechanisms with Aperiodic and Disordered Plasmonic Nanostructures

This work focuses on systematically adjusting properties of aperiodic, disordered, or random lattices to tune the spectral responses of 2D plasmonic arrays. We investigate a broad variety of structures that we group into ordered, uncorrelated, repulsive, and attractive classes. We demonstrate that uncorrelated structures can result in smoother optical spectra as a structure becomes more disordered. However, this smoothness is limited, and can be further tuned by an order of magnitude via attractive point processes.

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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