An ECE student group including Jack Flaherty, Md Jahangir Khondkar, and Sigmond Kukla, supervised by Prof. Masudul Imtiaz and his Center for Advanced PCB Design and Manufacture (CAPDM) at Clarkson University, participated in Sierra Circuits’ inaugural PCB Design for Innovation competition, Sierrathon. The final round was held at the University of San Jose, California.
The team successfully designed a wearable bandage sensor, made it to the finalist stage, and ultimately won 5th place overall in the competition, earning them $1000 worth of training material and seminar access to help further improve their PCB design skills. This bandage sensor is based on the EFR32MG24 BLE microcontroller and contains an ADXL345 accelerometer, dual LMP91000 potentiostats, a MAX30102 oximeter and heart rate sensor, and an ICS-43434 microphone.
This team will continue the development of the sensor to production, where it will be used for measuring biometric data on maternal health during pregnancy and as a platform for ML applications built on this data.
The team also thanks the lab members of the AI Vision, Health, Biometrics, and Applied Computing (AVHBAC) lab, in addition to all ECE faculty, for exposing advanced circuits and providing hands-on classroom training to Clarkson students.