Acknowledgements:

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following people for their assistance in our endotracheal tube support project:

First and foremost, we would like to thank our project sponsor, Andrew Vahabzadeh-Hagh, MD (avahabzadehhagh@health.ucsd.edu) at the Department of Surgery, UC San Diego, for all the suggestions and laboratory opportunities he had provided for this project.

We would also like to thank our project instructor Nathan Delson, Ph.D (ndelson@ucsd.edu) at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, for his instructions and encouragement on this project. Working underneath Professor Deslon, Ph.D, we thank Instructional Assistant, Sara Tran (smt021@ucsd.edu) for her advice throughout the project, and help making it an enjoyable experience for all involved.

Special thanks to the MAE Department engineering staff at the Design Studio, Mr. Chris Cassidy (ccassidy@eng.ucsd.edu), Matthew Robin Kohanfars (mrkohanf@eng.ucsd.edu), and Joseph Wayne (jdwayne@ucsd.edu), for helping us 3D printing all the prototypes in our design iterations; and Research & Development Engineer, Edward Pogue, M.S. (epogue@eng.ucsd.edu) at the MAE Educational Labs, for offering us help in programming and fabrication.

Special thanks to MAE engineering staff at the Electronics Shop, Steve Roberts (s3roberts@eng.ucsd.edu), Ph.D, for instructions and guidance in building FSR circuits and providing necessary electronics for this project.

Special thanks to Shiv Patel (shp093@ucsd.edu), Medical Simulation Operation Assistant at the Simulation Training Center at UC San Diego, for his assistance during the laboratory testing of the project.

Many companies and their technical specialists provided suggestions to our project. Thanks are due to all of them, some of whom are mentioned in the following:

Charles MacLeod, Ph.D (charles.macleod@pressureprofile.com), Technical Consulting Engineer at the PressureProfile company.

Chris Ward (cward@sensorprod.com), Senior Application Specialist at Sensor Products Inc.

Bridget Ogwezi (Bridget.Ogwezi@ansys.com), Academic Development Manager at ANSYS

Lakshana Mohee (Lakshana.Mohee@ansys.com), Academic Development Manager at ANSYS.

We would also like to acknowledge that the Dassault Systems, Mathworks, and Autodesk provided us the software for design and analysis.