Using input and feedback from the clinic staff at Bayanihan Clinic about what common conditions patients have in their vision clinic, students developed an eye model to better help explain conditions, effects, and treatment to patients. The device is sturdy, self contained, intuitive to use, easily understood, and can be quickly assembled and disassembled.

Background: Parrots are intelligent, active birds and many of them are endangered in the wild. As a result, many zoos and similar facilities care for these birds to educate people about them and protect them from extinction. Because of their intelligence and curious behavior, it can be difficult to keep parrots engaged while humans care for them.

Needs Statement: Parrots can become easily bored in captivity, which negatively affects their well-being. Parrots need more engaging activities than their current toys/food options. Slow release food toys are inadequate. There is a need for a solution that would encourage more interaction, movement, and exploration of the environment.

Client Preferences: Instead of small interactive games, the client would prefer an interactive structure that keeps parrots entertained and engages them to move around it to explore in a more natural manner (much as a wild parrot might search in trees for insects or other food).

Design Considerations: Parrots are capable of manipulating moveable elements with their beaks or feet. Any cavities must be small enough that birds cannot go inside of them. Treat rewards should be random, to further encourage searching and movement throughout the day. The device must be easy to clean and service for a single person. It should provide at least ten opportunities per day.

Students are creating a discrete way to alert physicians and interns how long they have been with a patient to hopefully help with the flow of people in the clinic without disturbing the patients.

The project team is working with the Sacramento Zoo to create a portable animal shower for the large animals at the zoo. The shower is engineered to be timer controlled and motion sensor activated for the enrichment of the animals.

When a patient is admitted to the hospital and needs their urine output to be monitored it should be checked every hour by a highly skilled nurse. This kind of check takes time out of the nurse's day where they could be doing something else and is less likely to happen the more busy the nurses are. The goal of this project is to develop a prototype of an Autonomous Urine Output Measurement System that will decrease nurse workload at UC Davis Medical Center, improve accuracy due to human error, and detect urine output abnormalities. This will help detect acute kidney injuries earlier on to reduce mortality, patient readmission rates, and hospital length of stay.

An extension to aid in the process of finding pharmacies where patients can pick up their prescriptions for the best price and most convivence. It lets the clinic staff input the kind of medication the patient is looking for and designate an acceptable price and geographical range.

In March 2019, when the COVID-19 pandemic had just started, B Hours held a COVID-19 design challenge. Multiple teams designed a product that would potentially stop the spread of COVID-19. The team that won this competition went on to develop their product and 3D print it as well. The 'Mindex' works as a door-opener/portable handle so there is less need to touch doors and other public surfaces. The final product was manufactured through the TEAM lab on campus.

Working with Dr. Jung and Kathy Hu from the UCD Pain Clinic students are developing a device which allows patients to lie prone while wearing a VR headset during pain procedures.

Won startup competition and $2000

Doing Clinical Trials at UC Davis Medical Center