IE Assoc. Prof. Vincent Duffy mentored senior industrial engineering students on the projects. IE grad students Shefali Rana, Apoorva Sulakhe, Vivia Wen-yu Chao, and Le Zhang, and visiting Scholar Qing-Xing Qu assisted in the course and oversaw the students’ work.

One project, “Smart Health Monitoring System: A Human-Centered Design”, developed a health monitoring device prototype. The six-student team came up with the project to improve hospitalized patients’ full recovery by improving communication between the patient-doctor-healthcare team. The students invented a wristwatch-type device that measures certain health parameters. With this device, the doctor can monitor the patient’s health condition via a computer app, and the patient can track his own health conditions via a smartphone app. 

An eight-person team of senior IE students worked on the other project, “The Smart Airport App, Transit.IO: The Travel Optimizer”. Transit.IO is a smart service application used to enhance the airport travel experience by providing real-time date, information, and analytics to the traveler. Using real-time data from various sensors and data points, machine-learning and eye-tracking technologies, its goal is to alert travelers when they should leave their current locations to catch their flights, and may prevent bottlenecks at airports