Leveraging an Open-Access Digital Design Notebook for Graduate Biomedical Engineering Education in Nigeria.

Amidst the dual challenges of an eight-month university closure from nationwide public university strikes in Nigeria and the lingering impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, we needed to innovate the delivery of BME graduate curriculum to ensure graduate students continued to progress in their studies. To ensure BME graduate students were engaging in team-based, clinician-identified engineering design challenges, we developed a digital design notebook (DDN) using Google Sites as an open-access, collaborative tool for scaffolding and documenting the engineering design process. Student design teams remotely uploaded digital content documenting their project work onto scaffolded DDNs created by program instructors.

Suitability of Hood Geometry for Design of a PCM Neonate Incubator for Resource-Limited Clinical Applications.

To reduce dependence on electric-powered incubators, a number of alternate heat sources have been proposed. Phase change materials (PCM) are one of such because of their availability and cost effectiveness in rural areas. This study intends to explore the use of phase change material (PCM) such as paraffin wax as an alternative heat source over a variety of incubator hood geometries.