AME - Design of Balance Measurement Device for Health Assessment

This project will have two parts:

  1. Research on existing devices for measuring human balance ability with specific use in the health care industry
  2. Design of a new human balance measurement and assessment device, for either in-home use or clinical use, to evaluate human balance ability to facilitate health care decisions, specifically in the geriatric context. 
Name of research group, project, or lab
Goodwine and Sen
Website
https://controls.ame.nd.edu/~bill
Logistics Information:
Project categories
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Student ranks applicable
Junior
Senior
Student qualifications

A successful student must have taken statics and dynamics in AME, or equivalent and have a strong interest in mechanics and the application of mechanics. 

Hours per week
3 credits / 12+ hours
Compensation
Research for Credit
Number of openings
1
Techniques learned

Analysis and design of balance measuring system. 

Project start
Jan 13, 2024 will be the date of the first meeting
Contact Information:
Mentor
John Goodwine
jgoodwin@nd.edu
Professor
Name of project director or principal investigator
Prof Bill Goodwine
Email address of project director or principal investigator
jgoodwin@nd.edu
1 sp. | 0 appl.
Hours per week
3 credits / 12+ hours
Project categories
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering