Just Keep Swimming

Our Biomedical Engineering students from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering have been perfecting their design projects all year. Check out what we've been working on.



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N20-Eaters

N2O-Eaters

Team 1: N2O-Eaters

Smarter Soil. Cleaner Air. Empowering microbes to fight climate change.

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JnJectors

J&Jectors

Team 2: J&Jectors

Compact injection molding solutions for the efficient engineer.

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JOMEQ

JOMEQ

Team 3: JOMEQ

JOMEQ's DreamLatch is a hands-free breast pump designed to let women rest, recline, and recover while enhancing comfort, usability, and peace of mind.

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AdheraMed

AdheraMed

Team 4: AdheraMed

Application made simple — fast and consistent StO₂ sensor adhesion every time for every patient.



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STACKS

STACKS

Team 5: STACKS

Safety, stability, and securement. That’s the stack we stand on to make a venous catheter anchoring system.

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REACH

REACH

Team 6: REACH

REACH leverages machine learning and electromyography to provide individualized stimulation support for stroke survivors with upper limb impairments.

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BioTMT

Bio TMT (Tricuspid Medical Technologies)

Team 7: Bio TMT (Tricuspid Medical Technologies)

Guiding precision, delivering care.

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NasoCoustics

NasoCoustics

Team 8: NasoCoustics

Redesigning post-operative speech diagnostics by creating a portable, accessible, and child-friendly approach to nasometry.

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SeniorSenseSolutions

Senior Sense Solutions

Team 9: Senior Sense Solutions

Elderly health monitoring made easy. Senior Sense Solutions is a low-cost elderly health wearable that provides peace of mind.

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SoundlySleeping

Soundly Sleeping

Team 10: Soundly Sleeping

Making patients sleep soundly.

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GlycateInnovate

Glycate Innovate

Team 11: Glycate Innovate

Glycate Innovate is collaborating with Epinex Diagnostics to develop a simple at-home diabetes management device that targets glycated albumin for medium-term diabetes monitoring.

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Alcount

Alcount

Team 12: Alcount

Automated titanium debris evaluation for quality control in cataract surgical device manufacturing.

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J&JSimuMed

SimuMed

Team 13: SimuMed

Where simulation meets the heart of innovation: cost-effective, ethically sourced, and anatomically relevant cardiac catheterization models designed to enhance R&D testing and improve failure prevention of cardiac catheters.

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DermaVision

DermaVision Technologies

Team 14: DermaVision Technologies

Supporting abuse victims with DermaSpect, a novel multispectral imaging technology enabling quantitative and equitable bruise age determination.

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VeinGuard

VeinGuard

Team 15: VeinGuard

Re-creating the emergency cervical collar for confident use: stabilizing the neck without risking jugular vein compression or further life-threatening injuries.

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UltraFAST

UltraFAST

Team 16: UltraFAST

Bringing precision to point-of-care ultrasound through real-time haptic guidance.

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AlyGators

AlyGators

Team 17: AlyGators

Bringing hyperspectral imaging out of the lab and into the clinic with a novel, low-cost system spanning 400–1700 nm. By integrating DMD-based scanning and custom optics, our compact design delivers high-resolution spectral data making advanced skin diagnostics accessible, scalable, and ready for real-world healthcare applications.

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Upcoming Events









The Bioengine Biomedical Device Design Symposium

We will be celebrating the culmination of the Biomedical Device Design capstone course at UC Irvine. Join us over food and drinks as the senior design teams showcase their prototypes and compete for a chance to win BioENGINE Fellowships and Capstone Design Awards.

*Note: BioENGINE Fellowship candidates are also eligible for Capstone Design Awards



Date: June 5th, 2025, 4-7pm

Location

UCI Applied Innovation (The Cove)

5141 California Ave, Suite 200

Please direct event questions to:

The Bioengine Team





Past Events



Bioengine Reverse Pitch Night

We will be hosting our kick-off event, our project matching reverse pitch night. This will be a team and project matching event where all students will match to their project of interest.

Date: October 8th, 2024

Location: Virtual

Via Zoom by Invitation Only





The Bioengine Industry Networking Night

We will be hosting our winter industry networking night. This will be a networking event that will consist of 2 minute reverse pitches from companies and networking booths to be able to meet and recruit our students after graduation.

Date: February 27th, 2025

Location: UCI Division of Continuing Education

Address: 510 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA 92697




Learn More about Becoming a Mentor for the BioENGINE Program

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We need your support!

We are seeking old medical equipment to assist our students with design and innovation.



Please direct mentorship and equipment donation questions to:

Dr. Christine King







About the instructors

Dr. Tibor Juhasz

Dr. Tibor Juhasz is a Professor of Opthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering UC Irvine. He is also the founder of ViaLase Inc., which is redefining the treatment of glaucoma. Dr. Juhasz received his PhD in Physics from the University of Szeged, Hungray, in 1985. He performed collaborative work with Prof Gerard Mourou on the development of femtosecond lasers for opthalmic surgery during his 2018 Nobel Lecture. He developed the first commercial ophthalmic laser in collaboration with Prof. Gerard Mourou, which is exhibited in the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Christine King

Dr. Christine King is an Associate Teaching Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. She received her BS and MS from Manhattan College in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, where she developed brain-computer interface systems for neurorehabilitation. She was a post-doctorate in the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research manager in the Center for SMART Health, where she focused on wireless health monitoring for stroke and pediatric asthma. Her current research is on engineering education.