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Jacob Holstein
Sharon, MA
Young Scholar 2010- Flame Propagation
Fourth year Junior
Major in Mechanical Engineering
Minors in Business and Mathematics
President and Co-Founder of Enabling Engineering
About Me
Our Mission
• Enabling Engineering is a student group that applies
technology to build low-cost devices that improve the
lives of the elderly and disabled
• Empower affected individuals by giving them greater
independence, reducing medical errors, and
increasing social connectedness, at minimal cost
• We are all people with a passion for helping others
and empowering individuals with disabilities and
difficulties
Who We Are
• Various majors and varying technical skill level
• We have non engineering majors participating in
development of our projects
• Non engineers sometime give better insight into
providing engineering solutions
• Project based group
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Primarily use meeting time to work on projects
Guest speakers
Work in tandem with Enabling Engineering course
Pizza
How It All Began
• Common goals as Lifestream
• Capstone group collaborated with them to create
iCraft—an eye tracking robotic arm used to feed
quadriplegics
• Their engineering work permanently improved the
life of one person, why not do more!
• Enabling Engineering was the solution
• 60-100 students involved in club meetings
• 21 students volunteering as part of Civic Engagement
Program program
• 20 students in Enabling Engineering Class
• 6 partner organizations
• 11 professional mentors
• 6 student officers
• 1 academic advisor
By The Numbers
Seminar Series
• Sept 12
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Miriam Zisook
Ph.D. student in medical
informatics
Needs assessment
• Sept 17
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Nikki Therrien and Sarah Bailey
Little Brothers Friends of the
Elderly
• Sept 26
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Brian MacDonald
National Braille Press
• Oct 3
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Bonnie Mello
Lifestream, Inc.
• Oct 15
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Steve McGonagle
Gordon Leadership Program
• Nov 12
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Rupal Patel
Speech Language Pathology
• Nov 21
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Paul Sabin
Product design
Fikst Product Development
Hospital Sleep Tracker
• Patients are often awoken several times per
night to be given medication, or flipped in bed
to prevent bed sores
• If you can predict time periods where patients
will be less disrupted, their quality of care
could be improved significantly
• Using an arduino and an accelerometer, we
have been able to track sleep motion and have
started to identify stages of sleep
Touchscreen Guard
• South Shore Educational Collaborative provides many
services to its special needs students including using
tablets for educational purposes
• Tablets are often used as communication/educational
devices
• Students often press wrong buttons
and exit important screens
• Project is working on designing
customized iPad case with
interchangeable covers to use with
various on screen apps
Large Lite Brite
• The Carter School in Boston works with middle and
high school students who cannot communicate
effectively
• Teachers want to encourage creativity
and environmental stimulation
• Ideal product is large Lite Brite set
with glass bulbs that light up when
put into place
User-operated Hoyer Lift
• Medical device to transfer patient
from one place to another
• End user wants to use device alone
without help
• Power will be provided by cordless
drill
• Was a capstone proposal in past
• Carter School
• Jim Papadopoulos
Get Up Seat
Stimulus Project
User Vocal Noise
Color expanding stimulus
Microphone (optional) &
iPad
Custom Audio Stimulus
Wheelchair Umbrella
• Paraplegics and Quadriplegics
cannot hold an umbrella and control
their wheelchair at the same time
• Products exist to hold umbrellas on
wheelchairs but do not provide a
user friendly design or cover enough
area
• Build a custom umbrella to mount to
any wheelchair that can extend with
the press of a button
Various Project Ideas
Water Feature Improvement
Audio Feedback
Mobility Improvement
Large Lite Bright
User Operated Hoyer Lift
Swing Shading
Improve Database
Connect Elders to Volunteers
Graphics for the Blind
Phone Support for the elderly
Word Editor for the Blind
Instrumented Toys for Autism
Assessment
• Project for Assistive Canine
Technology
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• Virtual Reality for the Disabled
• Mobile Communication for
Disabled Kids
• Glove to Transmit Touch Over
the Internet
• Multiple Sclerosis Walking
Assistant
• Detecting Brain Waves
• Shower Safety
• Reducing Bed Sores
• Oxygen Tank Holder
• Google Glass
• Remote Patient Communication
Questions??
Thank You