Research, coursework and commercial cases
Projects
Selected work where the result was measured rather than described — research campaigns, analysis pipelines and one technical business case.
Research
Characterising a steerable fibre under curvature
Six fibres bent past their rated limits, 285 recordings and a 405,000-row dataset. The 200 µm fibre reached the surgical bend and kept 92% of its light there, against 82% for the fibre used today.
View project →Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash
Measurement
Synthetic bone analogues under load
Mechanical testing of synthetic bone samples, with more than 50,000 data points per sample analysed in MATLAB. We carried instrument uncertainty through to every result and found three systematic reasons our values differed from the literature.
View project →Photo by Lauris Rozentals on Unsplash
Systems & data
Safer late-night bus journeys in Outer London
Our How to Change the World project: a request-stop scheme letting passengers get off between stops after 10 pm, adapted from Vigo, Spain. It won the 2026 award, and TfL invited us to present it at its National Engineering Day.
View project →Photo by Angelos Agorastos on Unsplash
Modelling
Where a femur breaks in a fall
A finite-element model of a patient-specific femur under impact, tested at different angles and boundary conditions and checked against fracture patterns seen in clinical practice. Graded 100%.
View project →Photo by Rohit Choudhari on Unsplash
Instrumentation
An ECG built from discrete components
A full biopotential acquisition chain — instrumentation amplifier, multi-stage filtering, 600 Hz sampling — built on breadboard and tested against a clinical database. Graded 92%.
View project →Photo by Joshua Chehov on Unsplash
Assistive technology
An EMG-controlled mouse, built in a week
A five-channel surface-EMG interface letting someone with limited mobility drive a cursor. Specified from signal physics, delivered in one week. Graded 91%.
View project →Photo by Vishnu Mohanan on Unsplash
Bioprocess
A vaccine bioreactor for Uganda
A small-scale yeast bioreactor to de-risk investment in a full-scale TB vaccine plant, integrating three engineering disciplines' workstreams into one design.
View project →Photo by RephiLe water on Unsplash
Research review
Histotripsy versus thermal ablation
A comparative assessment of five tumour-ablation modalities, reasoning from physical mechanism to clinical consequence — plus a dedicated ethics report.
View project →Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash
Financial analysis
What a 70% price cut did to Eli Lilly
Analysing a listed pharmaceutical company's voluntary 70% price cut against its own product-level revenue reports and Refinitiv share-price data around the announcement.
View project →Photo by Tötös Ádám on Unsplash
Mechanical design
A peristaltic pump, taken to manufacturable drawings
A full design-for-manufacture package — gear train, casing, connectors — as a complete technical drawing set with tolerances, fits and written manufacturing instructions.
View project →Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Electronics
An LED keychain in KiCad
Schematic capture and PCB layout for a small LED keychain — a self-directed board design outside any coursework, iterated across five revisions in a day.
View project →Photo by Sahand Babali on Unsplash
Embedded systems
A wearable infant safety monitor
Temperature and pressure sensing with embedded decision logic to detect hazardous positions and overheating — designed to keep false alarms low.
View project →Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Accessible design
A living aid, and instructions anyone can follow
Designing the device was half the work. The other half was documentation written to formal easy-read guidance, for users with cognitive or literacy barriers.
View project →Photo by Sebastian Dumitru on Unsplash
Device analysis
A menstrual cup as a biomedical device
Comparative analysis of cup variants against the underlying physiology, resolved into a decision flowchart a user could actually follow.
View project →Photo by Joachim Schnürle on Unsplash
