Specifically, during the first year, the faculty participants of the Center will work on many projects including:

• Detecting risk of falls in elderly (a collaboration between MME and Scripps)
• (Re) Design of a cane for walking (an undergraduate research project)
• Design of a controller for surgical tools (a collaboration with industry)
• Augmented reality tools for people with color blindness (a computing and engineering project)
• Energy harvesting for cardiac pacemakers (a collaboration with Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
• Advanced material design for bio-implants (a collaboration with industry)
• Tissue engineering for wounded soldiers (a biomedical engineering application)