Interviewers: James Galbraith, Zach Fiske, and Alex Barlow Interviewee: John Grant, MD, PhD, FRCSC (Clinical Associate Professor and Orthopedic Surgeon, University of Michigan) We interviewed Dr. Grant a second time after completion of our alpha prototype phase, which saw the realization of stand-alone guide only drilling the ALLR tunnel (Oasis) Read more…
Alpha Prototypes Both Dune and Oasis were manufactured using only the Leopard Works 3D printers. This resulted in a budget of $0 for their manufacturing. Testing setup required the purchase seen below.All other materials were borrowed from the machine shop. Beta Prototype The majority of items purchased were allocated Read more…
*It is to note that all references from here on out regarding LET will be referred to as ALL. This change was made as LET does not reflect the work we have completed. ALL is a more broad term that encompasses our work Concept Generation Concept selection and refinement Prototype Read more…
Timeline for the semester is shown below. The first semester (September to December) focused on selecting the problem and formalizing all stakeholder functional requirements as well as beginning to plan for the second semester (January to May). During this time, the team was focused on the fabrication of the prototypes Read more…
Since the start of our team in August 2022, we have worked hard to be where we are today. Starting with nothing, we now have a problem statement and are ready to move towards the solution space. Our group of 9 engineers have conducted research and interviews and narrowed down Read more…
Market Selection Process We began the market selection process by individually brainstorming markets of interest and then collectively using ranked-choice voting to narrow our field down to four top contenders: athletes, physical therapists, EMTs, and surgeons. Over the following two weeks we conducted interviews with experts in the aforementioned market Read more…
Broader Impacts Health: As a surgical tool, our main priority is to benefit the health of those who use the tool and who the tool will be used on. For us, this includes surgeons, nurses, and patients. As it has been noted, our problem causes surgeries to fail and overall Read more…
Motivation As a combination of Mechanical Engineers and Integrative Engineering: Bioengineers, we are a group that has a desire to mix engineering with the physiological components of the human body. After filtering through different ideas and topics that we could do for this project, we landed on improving ACL reconstruction Read more…
Objectives Our goal in researching and designing a new surgical tool is to publish a patent or a research paper with our findings. In this scenario, other people can potentially use our research and development to bring our tool to the market, as this outcome is likely out of our Read more…