Welcome

Providing real world, project-based experience focused on medical technology

Partnering with EWH national to help individuals and hospitals in developing countries

Educating engineering students on the growing efforts by UCSD Faculty in both Medicine in Engineering to improve Global Health

What is Engineering World Health at UCSD about?

We are committed to:

Global Health Speaker Series◦ Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 6:30pm, Fung Auditorium◦ Dr. Richard Garfein ◦ Professor of Global Health◦ Extensive overseas experience in infectious

disease Electrosurgery Tester Kit Build Day

◦ Saturday, Feb. 11 in PFBH teaching lab◦ Team-based activity

Summer Program in Tanzania Project Team Meetings

Upcoming Events

Dr. Richard Garfein Mobile technology in

treatment of tuberculosis Wednesday, January 25 at

6:30pm (exactly one week from now)

Fung Auditorium

Slide about next week’s speaker

Hands on soldering and project experience Assemble electrosurgery tester kits from

EWH National Kits used in low resource settings to

diagnose malfunctioning equipment $5 to help cover costs $20 for us to order

Build Day – Feb. 11

EWH Summer Institute Tanzania and Central America One month training, one month work

experience in developing hospitals Learn the language, take technical classes,

get lab experience, work in local hospitals Applications due January 28 http://ewh.org/index.php/programs/institute

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Duke Summer Program

RNA Extraction TeamJessica Van Allen

Process Lyse blood serum Remove components which hinder PCR Remove salts, proteins, and other cellular

impurities

Challenges Take a process with significant user input

and make it almost completely automated No contamination Durable Easy to Use Inexpensive

Fluid metering system replaces pipettes

Fluid flow system replaces centrifuges

Areas of focus for the quarter:◦ Pressure control system◦ Valve configuration◦ Electronic timing◦ Tubing

Design

Design a pressure control method Identify valve dimensions and configuration Identify material and dimensions for tubing Link system to electronic control

Quarter Goals

Thermocycler TeamJustin Wong, Alexander Lin

Obtain Sample from RNA team Heat Sample & Cool Sample according to

protocol Export product to Gel team

Process

Temperature uniformity Ramp rate (Heating/Cooling everything

quickly) Contamination Cost Durability/Repeatability

Challenges

Design

TEC (thermoelectric cooler) chip optimization

Rough working prototype

Quarter Goals

Gel Electrophoresis Team

Kathryn Gent

Gel Electrophoresis Objectives Qualitatively determine the presence of HIV

in the blood Based on open source designs, build a

functioning gel box for electrophoresis

Process Collect samples from Thermocycler team Load samples into agarose gel Run gel using electrophoresis Analyze gel using DNA dye

Challenges Building a gel box that will accurately run

the gel, but less expensively than a pre-made box

Safer alternatives to ethidium bromide Determining ideal power source based on

electricity standards

Faculty co-advisor: Dr. Melissa Micou Faculty co-advisor: Dr. Juan Lasheras

Get to know us!

Meet The Advisors

ewh.ucsd.edu Click “Contact Us” to join the mailing list! Click “Our Projects” to join the project team! Feel free to email us: tchew@ucsd.edu

ploury@ucsd.edu If you’d like to join one of our project teams

or have more questions, stay after and talk with us

Thank You