Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Week 1: Introduction to Artificial Heart Valve Design

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Our Freshman Design Project topic is to create an Artifical Heart Valve. This is a very complex project but we are sure to do all the research to be successful in our task. To begin our group is comprised of 4 people:

1.) Mario Borjas
2.) Mark Kundrotas
3.) Megan Chatham
4.) Tram Hoang

When choosing a topic the design of an artificial heart valve really stuck out to us. By the end of the 1st class the group was excited to tackle this difficult project topic we had chosen. Our goal is designing a new heart valve that would result to be efficient and improve problems older designs have. The main problem we face as first year engineering students is that we do not currently have all the information that is required. People working on these artificial heart valves have accumulated several years of knowledge and research. This means a lot of research has to be done in order to design our own artificial heart valve. But we would sure make it to be successful!

Source 1
Source 2
1) http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/heart/disorders/valve/bicuspid_aortic_valve_disease
2) http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/HeartValveProblemsandDisease/Types-of-Replacement-Heart-Valves_UCM_451175_Article.jsp

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