About me
My name is Jemima, and I’m an Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Co-op student at the
University of Alberta. I am currently in my third year of studies and am set to graduate in 2024.
Over the past summer (2021) I worked at the Neuromuscular Control & Biomechanics Lab
under the supervision of Dr. Hossein Rouhani, and my focus was on developing wearable
technology for daily health monitoring, as well as a motion control platform for biomechanical
applications. I will continue working on the projects during the fall term of 2021 under a Dean’s
Research Award (DRA).
Supervisor:
Dr. Hossein Rouhani
Research interests:
Control and sensory feedback for bionic limbs
Wearable sensors for human health monitoring
Surgical robotics
Projects
I am working on two projects, the first being the development a low-cost Bluetooth based inertial measurement unit (IMU) system for sitting pressure monitoring. The objective of this project is to provide sitting pressure feedback to people who suffer from brain or spinal cord injuries. My contribution was to program an Arduino to broadcast the IMU sensor data via Bluetooth using C++, and to write Python code that allows a Raspberry Pi to read and analyze the data. In addition, I created a Graphical User Interface that displays the data to the user using Python.
For the second project, a mechanical testing device was designed for measuring the physical properties of a 3D-printed wrist model. It consists of a motion control system as well as a force measurement system.
Awards
Dean’s list and First-Class Standing
Southwire Academic Achievement Award (2021)
Randy Duane Rawson Memorial Scholarship in Electrical Engineering (2020)
University of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship (2020 & 2021)
Jason Lang Scholarship (2020)