Before cargo can be mounted to a vehicle that will be air transported, the mounting method must be tested to flight accelerations. This device is capable of applying up to 1,000 pounds of force and detecting one thousandth of an inch deflection and can accommodate vehicles up to 6 feet high.

The Embrana Band is a wearable health monitoring system designed to improve recovery outcomes for patients following Cesarean-section surgery. The project addresses a critical gap in postpartum care, where patients are often discharged with limited guidance and must rely on subjective judgment to identify complications. Embrana integrates a thin, flexible sensor band with a mobile application to continuously track local skin temperature and a perfusion proxy near the incision site—two early indicators of inflammation and infection. By analyzing trends relative to a patient’s baseline, the system provides simple, color-coded feedback (green, amber, red) along with actionable next steps. A companion clinician dashboard enables remote review and timely intervention. This approach aims to reduce unnecessary hospital visits while ensuring early detection of complications. Ultimately, Embrana demonstrates how accessible, at-home monitoring technology can enhance patient confidence, improve clinical outcomes, and modernize postpartum care pathways.

Hundreds of thousands of interventional pulmonary operations are performed after endotracheal intubation in the US annually. These procedures use both a camera to visualize the airway and another tool to operate on it. 1,2 In robot-assisted bronchoscopies (RAB), the current gold-standard for such operations, clinicians cannot use both tools simultaneously. This can delay management of complications, such as airway bleeding, as pulmonologists switch between instruments.3,4,5

Manufacturers have attempted to design multiport adapters that allow for the insertion of multiple surgical instruments simultaneously. However, these solutions either obstruct airway visualization, compromise the airtightness of the ventilation circuit, or allow only a limited range of tools to be used.

This project developed biodegradable Vicryl-PCL hybrid stents designed for use in the Whipple procedure, aiming to replace traditional plastic stents that often require risky surgical retrieval. The stents were fabricated using Kumihimo braiding and dip-coating techniques to create a freestanding porous scaffold. The team then tested degradation performance across multiple simulated biological environments, evaluated mechanical integrity via Young’s Modulus, and used COMSOL Multiphysics computational modeling to predict degradation behavior, all with the goal of producing a stent that dissolves naturally within a clinically safe timeframe.