Congratulations to our Senior Design Team for winning the Dean’s Choice Award at the Engineering Winter Design Review that took place last Friday, March 12, 2021.
You can see the team and their Automated Colorimetric Bioassay Platform that detects malaria in the patient’s sample by observing the color change of the solution here https://axacosta.wixsite.com/automatedbioassay2. The system is controlled by the Arduino platform and is based on the use of cheap ubiquitous disposable syringes and non-disposable hardware consisting of inexpensive parts such as servomotors and 3D printed fixtures. This design is the enhancement of the original system that was constructed by our group several years ago (see post of Sept 18, 2018).