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Project Overview:
America’s VetDogs provides enhanced mobility and renewed independence to veterans, active-duty service members, and first responders with disabilities, allowing them to live with pride and self-reliance once again. 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.
Team Members
Justin Scherrman
Design Engineer
Justin Scherrman is an electrical engineering major with a focus on Power Systems. He works in the role of a design engineer, focusing on the communication between microcontrollers.
Ty Decker
Member Role
Ty Decker is a Cyber Security engineering student. He has focused on secure design and communication between microcontrollers.
Aidan Klimczak
Member Role
Aidan is an Electrical Engineering student. He has been focused on design and schematics for record-keeping and eventual PCB design.
Katerina Zubic
Member Role
Katerina Zubic is an electrical engineer major with a specialization in Control Systems. As a design engineer, she focused on Bluetooth communication as well as motor control on the canine wearable.
Neil Prange
Member Role
Neil is a Computer Engineer. Within this project, he has focused on implementing software for interfacing with the veteran and detecting critical biological markers of a PTSD attack.
Justin Jaeckel
Member Role
Justin Jaeckel is a Computer Engineering student. He has been focusing on embedded systems and programming the microcontroller in this project, interfacing the processors with relevant sensors.
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