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Project Overview

Project Proposal Abstract:

America’s VetDogs provides enhanced mobility and renewed independence to veterans, active-duty service members, and first responders with disabilities, allowing them to once again live with pride and self-reliance. While the service dogs are trained to support their owners when they exhibit PTSD symptoms visibly or audibly, the ideal situation is to stop the episode before it happens. America’s VetDogs in partnership with BAE Systems is seeking to develop a device that monitors a spike in an individual’s heart rate and blood pressure before a PTSD episode begins. The device should alert the service dog so it can in-turn provide the veteran with comfort.

This project is part of BAE Systems’ Tech Power: Innovating for Impact program. BAE Systems employees will serve as mentors on these projects. The mentors will play an important role in evaluating students work and making recommendations related to BAE Systems’ end of year showcase and recognition awards.

Requirements:

The device is only able to be heard/felt by the dog, as opposed to everyone in the vicinity.
The technology should be able to be turned off.
The canine device should be detachable and hang off the collar.

Problem Statement:

How might we build a wearable device that detects vitals which are used to give early warning for PTSD episodes, and alerts a service animal via detachable collar device?

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Senior Design Team Members

Caden Backen

Software Engineering

Hometown: Altoona, IA

Hobbies: Volleyball, Dogs, Poker

Bio:
Caden is a software engineering student with internship experience working in embedded systems on industrial forestry equipment. He enjoys hands on work and is open to learning any new skills needed to bring the best work forward.

Andres Ceballos

Electrical Engineering

Hometown: Joliet, Illinois

Hobbies: Watching/playing sports, traveling, and trying new foods

Bio:
Andres has two previous internship positions, one at Tokyo Electron Manufacturing and Engineering where he worked in the design electrical team assisting on project development. The other being with Constellation Energy where he worked in the operations department assisting in the implementation of the Constellation Dynamic Procedures process and understanding the system processes of the boiling water reactor nuclear generating plant where he was stationed. On campus, Andres is involved with both the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Engineers Without Borders.

Ben Gardner

Electrical Engineering

Hometown: Iowa City, IA

Hobbies: Video Games, Magic: the Gathering, Reading

Bio:
Ben is an electrical engineer at ISU. He has done internships in manufacturing with Timken and Firmware/Hardware design at Daktronics. He is also currently working as an undergraduate research assistent with ISU's ARA Wireless Living Lab.

Casey Halbmaier

Software Engineering

Hometown: Cedar Falls, IA

Hobbies: Video Games, Coding, Being with Friends

Bio:
Casey is a software engineer at Iowa State University. With not many internships, Casey is excited to learn more about working as a software engineer from this project.

Coby Konkol

Software Engineering

Hometown: Des Moines, IA

Hobbies: Soccer, Guitar, Skateboarding

Bio:
Coby is a software engineer at ISU with a broad range of work, internship, and research experience. He is excited to gain more experience with the complete process of designing, building, and testing embedded systems.

Nihaal Zaheer

Computer Engineering

Hometown: Bangalore, India

Hobbies: Gym, Soccer, Reading, Anime

Bio:
Nihaal is a Computer Engineer at ISU with multiple research and work experiences. In the past he has interned at Safran and Salin247. Currently he is also an Undergraduate Research Assistant for the Autonomous Systems Department at ISU that researches Human-Robot interaction for Self-Driving EVs.