Kalina Mladenova Portfolio
I am a senior at Yale University double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Visual Art.
I love understanding how things work and finding ways to improve existing devices and create new ones. I want to innovate and create things that are beautiful and can help our everyday lives.
Outside of design and engineering, I illustrate for different Yale publications, write articles, and am the president of the Bulgarian Society.
My favourite animal is the hippo.
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Yale School of Engineering
Yale Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design
New Haven, CT
The Balance Board is a medical device that is meant to provide physicians with a quantitative approach to determine when a patient is ready to go into rehabilitation after a cardiac surgery. Currently a patient's ability to walk and climb stairs after a cardiac surgery is assessed only by observation. This device was built to help the doctors at the Yale New Haven Hospital train their patients’ sense of balance and asses their progress after surgery.
The device is currently undergoing user testing at the Yale New Haven
Hospital.