Results of the 15th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 15th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2013 will take place
February 9, 2013. This year's theme of the contest is 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. Sponsored by: in part by IEEE CLAS Section
The event took
place at UCI and was held with the Orange County Chapter and Orange
County Student Chapter of the IEEE EMB Society courtesy of Dr.
William C. Tang.
Volunteer event support
provided by
Jolie McLane, Monica Kim, Christine King, and Arlene Doria.
The finalists and their projects as selected by a panel of judges:
Biomedical Engineering Track
1st place
Design of Vibrotactile Device for Rehabilitative Training of
Persons with Recent Lower-limb Amputation
Khang Nguyen , Neha Bharti
2nd place
Wireless Bluetooth Braille Display for Android Phones
Robert
Chapman
BIOTECH Track
1st place
Cancer Screening Using Multi-Modal Principal Orthogonal
Decomposition & Machine Learning Algorithms
Carlyn-Ann Lee
2nd place
Analyzing EEG Data of Alcoholic Patients using Time Series
Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques
Regie Felix
3rd place
The Opensource Human Rhinovirus Database
Andrew Ninh
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceded the 60th 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. William C. Tang, UCI; Dr. Mario Cepeda, and contest coordinators: Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LA EMB, Dr. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/LA EMB. Sponsors interested in The 16th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contest 2014 please email to druz[AT]ieee.org.