Description:

Background: Open wounds such as in osseointegrated prosthetics, blast injuries, burns and surgeries require skin grafts and need to repel infections. Skin grafts, regeneration and transplants all take a long time and most often an infection has already grown.

Aim: To develop a soft flexible artificial skin that has an embedded pump to continuously flush liquid (such as saline fluid or antibiotics) to keep an open wound from infection.

Objectives:

1.       Develop and model mechanism for soft flexible low profile pump

2.       Build scale prototype e.g. cast or 3D printed

3.       Evaluate the design through experimental testing

 

This is a new project funded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Need at least one Mechatronics student

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering

Categories

• Dynamics and Control
• Mechatronics

Supervisor

• Andrew McDaid

Team

Allocated (Not available for preferences)

Lab

Lab allocations have not been finalised