S.N.E.A.K: Designing a Pyruvate Sensor

Welcome to the senior design website for Group 16! This website is meant to provide information on what we are working on. Please follow the links on the top to navigate through the site and read about what our team is developing.

Introduction
As part of the UCSD Senior Design Sequence in 2007-2008, our team aims at creating a Pyruvate Sensor that is both easy to use and provides fast and accurate results [More on this here]. Thus, under our advisor Dr. Dale A. Baker from the UCSD Biotransport and Metabolic Monitoring laboratory, we have undergone a thorough engineering analysis in order to improve pyruvate measuring techniques. Our device will allow doctors and researchers to detect the concentration of pyruvate in blood sera and bioreactor media.

After learning about engineering design fundamentals in BENG 187A, and preparing a design document in BENG 187B, our team has been on its way to completing this project by the end of Winter Quarter 2008 as part of BENG 187C. Our website provides information about the entire design process in our Gantt Chart [please view it here]. Additionally, given our budget, we have also developed a cost analysis table for viewing [it is located here]. In BENG 187D we will be presenting our results and design to industrial partners of UCSD in Spring Quarter 2008.

Additional information about our project including a photo gallery and additional considerations are also presented on this website. [Please view the photo gallery here].


Designed By: Karthik Raman