Our students took place in the literature with the respiratory test device they made from paper

BİLGİ Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering students Beril Aygül, Sena Ulgaz and Berkay Yılmaz, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Yiğit Dağhan Gökdel, developed the ‘Disposable Paper-Based Piezoresistive MEMS Airflow Sensor’ project that enables the diagnosis of respiratory diseases. The project, in which a portable and affordable spirometer device was developed from paper material, offers the opportunity to diagnose chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD with fast, low-cost methods that minimize the risk of infection.

The sensor developed within the scope of the project supported by TÜBİTAK 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program aims to eliminate the disadvantages of existing spirometer devices such as high cost and risk of infection. This device, which can be produced in only 30 minutes, also stands out with its advantages such as being easily portable and not producing environmental waste.

The article written by the students about the project was published in the ‘Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems’, one of the prestigious journals in the field.