{"id":1527,"date":"2017-05-09T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2017-05-09T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:13:59","slug":"congrats-to-senior-project-design-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/2017\/05\/09\/congrats-to-senior-project-design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Senior Project Design Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped-636x416.jpg\" alt=\"BME ME team 2017 - device - cropped\" width=\"636\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped-636x416.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to our Senior Project Design Team, consisting of Biomedical engineering students Kate Girouard and Victoria Frick and Mechanical engineering student Evi Shiakolas, on completing their project! In collaboration with the Stepp Lab and Dr. Susan Fager at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madonna.org\/\">Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital<\/a>, the\u00a0team designed an open-source switch to enable communication\u00a0for\u00a0<span>severely paralyzed users who currently have no way to access an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device!\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They presented their project to both the Mechanical engineering department and the Biomedical engineering departments this week. Well done!<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container bme-team-2017 autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-1538\" data-slideshow-name=\"bme-team-2017\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-1538\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-1538_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/ME-talk-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">MechE presentation<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-1538_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/After-ME-talk-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">After MechE talk<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Team members Victoria Frick, Kate Girouard, and Evi Shiakolas with co-mentor Gabe Cler<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-1538_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-cropped-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">After BME talk<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Co-mentor Gabe Cler, team members Evi Shiakolas, Kate Girouard, and Victoria Frick, with mentor Dr. Stepp<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-1538_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/BME-ME-team-2017-device-cropped-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Team with new sEMG switch<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-1538_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2017\/05\/Celebration-selfie-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Celebration!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-1538\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our Senior Project Design Team, consisting of Biomedical engineering students Kate Girouard and Victoria Frick and Mechanical engineering student Evi Shiakolas, on completing their project! In collaboration with the Stepp Lab and Dr. Susan Fager at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, the\u00a0team designed an open-source switch to enable communication\u00a0for\u00a0severely paralyzed users who currently have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}