engineering design day 2012 - College of Engineering @ The ...
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FABRICATIoN DEVICE FoR A poRouS, poLYmERIC VASCuLAR GRAFT<br />
Interdisciplinary <strong>Engineering</strong> Design Program<br />
CLASS<br />
ENGR 498A/B<br />
SpoNSoR<br />
S<strong>of</strong>t Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory<br />
SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR<br />
Dr. Jonathan Vande Geest<br />
pRoJECT mENToR<br />
Dr. Jonathan Vande Geest<br />
TEAm mEmBERS<br />
Alex Florez (ME)<br />
Amanda Fron (ME)<br />
Kevin Glaser (ME)<br />
Eric Hebeisen (ME)<br />
ME = Mechanical <strong>Engineering</strong><br />
TEAm 4947: pRoJECT SummARY<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>design</strong> team, working alongside<br />
Dr. Vande Geest and his graduate<br />
student Greg Johnson, built a<br />
device capable <strong>of</strong> producing<br />
vascular grafts to be used for<br />
abdominal aortic aneurysms<br />
(AAA’s). <strong>The</strong> project started from<br />
initial ideas <strong>of</strong> how to make the<br />
device and developed all the way to<br />
assembly and fabrication <strong>of</strong> grafts.<br />
Through the use <strong>of</strong> LabView s<strong>of</strong>tware, changes can be made in the fabrication<br />
process to allow for variation in the porosity <strong>of</strong> the graft. While the device was<br />
tested with a spray and nozzle setup, it was built with the purpose for future use<br />
with an electrospinning unit.
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