B-Hours
B Hours is a program that connects UCD undergraduate students with professional clients on campus and in the community. We form student-led teams and provide them an opportunity to develop clinical prototypes for their clients. It is our mission to provide hands-on design experience to undergraduate engineering students from all backgrounds and experience levels. Furthermore, we network and connect our students with knowledgeable industry mentors as well as professors to help further develop their technical expertise.
In the past couple years, we have expanded to have over one hundred student members working on projects including an designing a raptor flight, 3D model projects, and a portable uroflowmetry device. B-Hours often collaborates with personnel at the UCD Medical Center, faculty and staff at UCD and members of the surrounding community to source real engineering projects for students to work on. We are always working on expanding our network and therefore the opportunities available to our members.
B-Hours also holds workshops for students throughout the year to help students become more familiar with things like CAD, coding, and Arduino. We hope that students leave our program with more confidence in themselves and their skills as an engineer.
In the past couple years, we have expanded to have over one hundred student members working on projects including an designing a raptor flight, 3D model projects, and a portable uroflowmetry device. B-Hours often collaborates with personnel at the UCD Medical Center, faculty and staff at UCD and members of the surrounding community to source real engineering projects for students to work on. We are always working on expanding our network and therefore the opportunities available to our members.
B-Hours also holds workshops for students throughout the year to help students become more familiar with things like CAD, coding, and Arduino. We hope that students leave our program with more confidence in themselves and their skills as an engineer.
Ongoing Projects
Prosthetic Augmented Reality
This project began last year and consists of a team of BME and CSE members. The goal is to create an app to help patients who have recently undergone or will soon undergo an amputation begin to visualize what a prosthetic will look like on their body. The app will allow patients to project a 3D image of the prosthetic onto their body and let the user customize the prosthetic's appearance.
UROFLOWMETRY DEVICE
In collaboration with Dr. Kurzrock from the Medical Center's Urology department and a CSE senior design team who recently graduated, a team of B-Hours students is creating a portable uroflowmetry device. Uroflowmetry is a simple test for adult males that is done regularly, causing a portable version to increase convenience and efficiency. This project began in November of 2020 and consists of both an app and a physical device that work together to measure flow rate of urine.
PAIN ClINIC
Working with Dr. Jung and Kathy Hu from the UCD Pain Clinic students are developing a device which allows patients to lie prone while wearing a VR headset during pain procedures.
Animal shower
A project for the San Francisco Zoo where students are working to create an interactive, timed shower for large animals to provide them with enrichment and a cool shower. Using a 50 gallon barrel, electric pump, motion sensor, and Arduino students are making it so that the animals can activate the shower by walking up to it and interacting at different intervals during the day.
B-Hours x Bayanihan Clinic Project (BCP) Phase I
Students worked worked in teams interviewing interns, medical students, and volunteer doctors at the Bayanihan Clinic to identify pain points within their different services. The teams then brainstormed and pitched different solutions to the problems that the clinic members faced to the Bayanihan and B-Hours Executive boards. Some of the conceived projects will go on to be developed by different B-Hours teams in the coming years.
educational 3d eye model (BCP)
Using input and feedback from the clinic staff about what common conditions patients have in their vision clinic students are developing an eye model to better help explain conditions, effects, and treatment to patients. The device needs to be sturdy, able to be self contained, intuitive to use, easily understood, quickly assembled and disassembled.
3d diabetes educational aid (BCP)
Students designed a 3D model to help clinic staff explain dietary changes that can help patients manage the symptoms of type II diabetes. The model is tailored specifically to the majority filipino community that the clinic serves and is meant to help patients understand simple and easy alternatives that can drastically improve their condition.
Clinic Cart (BCP)
This project is meant to help the clinic staff improve the efficiency of their set up. The cart will be custom made to hold all of the clinics tools and materials securely and safely.
Stethescope Attachment (BCP)
Often times in the clinic interns and practitioners will be listening for blood pressure or breath sounds with a stethoscope in loud environments within the clinic. This attachment will help cancel out the white noise and make it easier for the practitioners to listen the stethoscope sounds and provide more accurate assessments.
Time Management System (BCP)
Students are creating a discrete way to alert physicians and interns to how long they have been with a patient to hopefully help with the flow of people in the clinic without disturbing the patients.
Raptor Flight
A project with the UCD Raptor center where students are designing a 60ft round raptor flight that fits the foundations that have already been laid. Once the students have a design confirmed with advisors and the raptor center staff they will begin constructing and assembling the flight.
Parrot Enrichment
Students are working with the San Francisco Zoo to build an interactive parrot feeding structure which provides enrichment for the parrots and simulates what parrot feeding would look like in the wild.
Automated Rhino Observation
One of the rhinos at the San Francisco Zoo is exhibiting odd behavior and to try to identify the causation they have requested that students come up with a computer system that can recognize when the rhino is acting odd and log the environmental factors leading up to and following it.