Esophageal motility disorders adversely impact the everyday lives of many patients, making it painful or nearly impossible to eat or swallow normally. In the United States, 4% (1 in 25) of adults across all ages and 22% of elderly adults (ages 50+) are affected by swallowing problems each year [1,3]. While these side effects impede daily life, a relative minority seek treatment— in part due to the limited diagnostic tools, analysis, and treatments currently available. Esophageal manometry is the most informative procedure to assist clinicians in identifying and developing treatment plans for motility disorders. While the technology associated with esophageal manometry procedures has improved greatly, current state-of-the-art technologies still fall short in (i) accounting for patient comfort and (ii) providing the high-resolution impedance readings required to easily differentiate between similar disorders. Our project aims to redesign the catheters used in esophageal manometry, emphasizing bioimpedance data collection by decreasing the sensor spacing from 2cm to 1cm; this enables both greater resolution and more impedance measurements to be collected. The construction of a fully functioning impedance catheter is unrealistic for our course timeframe and budget; therefore, our goal is to have an abbreviated catheter prototype, consisting of at least 9 impedance electrodes with a complementing software program for data analysis.