 The engineering senior design project is our capstone as seniors. Our specifically is building a bioelectric low-weight low-noise prosthetic hand. The first semester is research and second one development. We're looking to use all those skills we've learned through our classes all the way through from freshman year, applying them to do an actual engineering project. There are 15 groups with a mix of disciplines of engineers. Each one has their own project going on. So my team is me, Kat, Rob and Moses. We have two biological engineers. I'm a software engineer then Moses is an electrical engineer. We're all sharing the responsibility of different parts of the project. I am working mostly on the biocide doing stuff with the biocompatibility of the device so making sure it works with the human user. Moses focuses on the electrical side of it so he works on the circuits which help pick up the EMG signals making the electrical components in the hand function and on the software side. So what I do is basically build the brain of the arm. I've also been taking over more of a mechanical role designing and developing natural physical prosthetic. So we were lucky enough to get two grants. We got the Hardman Grant from here at Fairfield University and we also received the Connecticut Space Grant from NASA and that allows us to do a lot more trial and error different prototypes of our design. Our kids are a much more natural process than we would otherwise be able to do. Fortunately we all get to work closely together and learn about each other's disciplines just a new process one that probably seems more professional and more realistic. When I got into bioengineering in freshman year I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it but after doing this project I'm really sure I want to do prosthetics.