Results of the 14th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 14th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2012 took place
February 4, 2012. This year's theme of the contest was to develop and present a concept
using Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical, and/or Electro-Optics to assist a
persons' disability - or to improve a persons' ability to manage tasks that
usually require assistance. The contest focus is on students' individual ideas
and in particular, the contest provides a forum for these future engineers to
share those ideas that focus on technology assisted care. Sponsorship: in part by IEEE CLAS Section
The event took
place at Caltech and was held courtesy of the Department of Electrical
Engineering.
The assistance of Carol Sosnowski is very much appreciated. Volunteer event
support provided by Amanda Chang
and Steven Okai. The finalists and their proposals, as selected by a panel
of judges:
and IEEE Metro LA
Section
1st place
Digital Plethysmography: Respiratory rate, tidal volume detection, and
flow-volume plotting
SylvanoDoddick
2nd place
EMG Controlled Arm Prototype Forearm Flexo-Extension (video)
Daniel Gómez Cardona, Presenter: Daniela Cruz
3rd place
Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Detection in Patients Diagnosed with JP-HHT
Andrew Ninh
4th place
Flexible Intravascular Thermal Sensors to Assess Atherosclerosis-Mediated
Changes in Hemodynamics
Juhyun Lee, Nelson Jen, Fei Yu, Wangde Dai, and Tzung K. Hsiai
5th place
A Neuro-electrophysiological monitoring system to assist in self monitoring and
improving cognitive performance and behavioral management.
Tim Patterson
Special recognitions:
Medical Image Processing Using Averaging Method
Elyar Ghafoori and Aria Ansaari-Ashlaghi
Pill Reminder
Tsuchen Liu
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceded the 59th Annual National Engineers Week.
The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution): Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE; Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; and contest coordinators: Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LA EMB, Dr. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/LA EMB, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, IEEE/LA EMB, and Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Students and sponsors interested in The Annual Bio-Tech Contest please check http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.org.