4th Year Studio Gallery
4th year students collaborated with the Texas Children’s Hospital to reconceive the century-old IV pole. This was a team-based product development project with multiple stakeholders involved including: nurses, patients, service personnel, and parents. In the Spring semester, seniors engaged with their individual, self-defined thesis projects, ranging from traditional product-based development to UX/UI apps and websites.
Please click to view individual thesis pages for more information on each project!
Minnie is an app & smart device pairing, designed to help first-time birth control pill users find the right type of pill for them, consistently take the pill, and catch adverse reactions quickly. The Minnie App provides personalized suggestions & customizable tools, and the Minnie Clip is a smart reminder tool for medication adherence.
Skinsta is a mobile app that identify skin type, recommend products and acne care routines, and educate users about treating their adult acne, by connecting users to credible information.
Ngan Thi Le
Skinsta
Alpha is an application that assists with making the communication between dog trainers and dog owners easier. Owners have the ability to watch personal videos of their dog being trained, have access to a community of dog owners for tips and tricks, and a place to store and contain all their pups medical documents and information.
Ether is jewelry that goes with you and grows with you. Inspired by modularity and the expandability principles of bistable auxetic materials, Ether is jewelry that can change in all kinds of ways. You can change the colors in a set, expand a piece from an earring to a necklace, an adjust your jewelry to your daily mood. With Ether, jewelry is no longer stagnant. Ether changes as you do. Ether, let jewelry grow with you.
Tuner Lift is a vehicle jack system designed to handle the problems car enthusiast are having while lifting their cars. By using actuators mounted on the vehicle, Tuner Lift provides numerous combinations for lifting at a moment’s notice. It works with a touch of a button, requires no tools, and lifts the car in place. Simply put Tuner lift will revolutionize the way the automotive industry approaches the process of lifting a car.
My main goal was to bridge the gap between the custom automotive scene and factory comfort and style. The project revolved around staying loyal to 4 major characteristics while designing the custom replica center console enclosure: Vehicle sustainability, strict OEM design language, plug-and-play convenience, and modularity for easy upgrades. My creation consists of a 100% fiberglass enclosure that offers factory styling, integration to existing components, and most importantly houses up to one 10” subwoofer for a luxurious, yet powerful audio upgrade to a stock 2014-2018 GMC Sierra or Chevy Silverado.
Pace is a wearable necklace that holds health related sensors to monitor the user when wearing device. The sensors are to use collected data to analyze and develop perspective on individual triggers related to anxiety. Pace has a focus to help give women the right resources to overcome mental health and help to evolve our ever-growing society with well-practiced mental health.
The furniture industry is heavily dependent on consumer housing trends and has brought many new furniture companies to market, causing a mass influx in Furniture Waste, with an increase in landfilling and the processing of raw material. This research investigated sustainable, cost-effective ways of making new furniture, reducing the amount of material to the landfill.