Throughout their four years at Bucknell University,  biomedical engineering seniors try to create devices that solve medical problems. This year, the senior projects included a gurney that supports and maneuvers morbidly obese patients during cardiac catheterizations procedures, and handheld device that enabled doctors to secure broken bones while they're being prepared, and an adjustable retractor to suspend the liver during kidney surgery. During the capstone course, students talk to surgeons and other medical professionals at Geisinger Medical Center and the Weis Center for Research (Danville, PA) to learn about the challenges in their field. The course also incorporates information from various disciplines. During the fall semester, students and their faculty mentors form contracts with the hospital to provide intellectual rights to Geisinger in exchange for providing experience in developing a real medical devices. During the spring, the students spend their time building prototypes and testing their designs.