KYAN SADEGHILARI
Kyan's Senior Design Portfolio
PERSONAL DESIGN INTERESTS
PAST PROJECTS
The design projects I enjoy working on the most are those that are able to improve people's lives relating to medical field. As shown, the projects I have working on emphasis this. Using my mechanical engineering knowledge, I hope to leverage that an apply it to the human body in order to improve the quality of life. Subjects that interest me include biomechanics, controls, and bio-fluid mechanics. I hope that by going to graduate school I will be able to learn more about these subjects.
WALKER REDESIGN
The aim of the project which I worked on in MAE 364, was to redesign the standard medical walker to be able to ease patients in sitting and standing up, as opposed to, standard walkers which do not supply much support for this action. The task for the design was divided into manageable gates as requested from the instructor. Breaking the project in different stages, similar to a Gantt chart, provided an easy way to keep on track.
PRE-PROSTHETIC DEVELOPMENT
During this engineering intramural project, a team and I were tasked with rapidly developing a pre-prosthetic for two patients at ECMC whom were missing more than half their arms. Many of the design concepts stemmed from multiple brainstorming sessions were group members wrote as many ideas on post-its as possible in 10 minutes.
ANTI-SHAKING HANDLE
One project I previously worked on was the development of a way to aid in early and late onset Parkinson’s patients with tremors’ ability to use cups without spilling the content with minimal inconvenience for the patient.
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The project started by defining a need statement and a need criteria then after preliminary designs were conceptualized, the needs assessments was made to verify if the design met the requirements.
CURRENT PROJECT
Not only do I enjoy working on my senior deign project, but there are other projects I am currently working on.
One project I’ve been working on this past year is for research with Dr. Hui Meng of the of MAE Department, at Toshiba Strokes Research Center in downtown Buffalo. This research deals with trying to manifest artificial and synthetic clots, and trying to test their mechanical properties. By gathering information on their mechanical properties, I try to have them match as close as possible to that of a real human blood clot. This is an iterative process, in the sense that when creating blood clots, I try to see how concentrations and ratios will yield the most accurate results to try to match the mechanical properties of a real human blood clot. This research is something that really excites me because I get to have hands on lab experience as well as being able to improve the already known formula for synthetic blood clots and try to tinker it as best I can to try to obtain certain results. Typically, engineers deal with designing consumer products or systems, but currently I am dealing with a different application of design. That being designing an experiment to yield the results needed. Designing an experiment has the same procedure as when designing a product just applied in a different way.
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The link below, demonstrates past work of the type of experimental design work I am currently conducting.
ARDUINO TINKERING
Something that has always helped me in my engineering practices is Arduino tinkering. UB has a great facility in Jarvis, where you can learn how to utilize the Arduino, by learning the basic of its hardware and software development. This has proved applicable to a variety of engineering projects, even my senior project because we do plan on using an Arduino to drive all the motors and sensors. To me, Arduino tinkering is the perfect way to how software relates to a physical model. You code the Arduino the commands you want it to perform, then you can actually see it actuate those commands you coded. The tinkering thought process is similar to that of what an engineering project would have. First, you plan on what you want the Arduino to perform. Then you conduct the physical model with wires, etc. After, you code it and then you’re done. The Arduino is the ideal tool for displaying prototypes of projects.
