Results of the 12th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition

The 12th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contest 2010 took place February 6, 2010. 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 USC courtesy of the USC Department of Biomedical Engineering - Dr. Michael Khoo  and Chris Noll. Volunteer event support provided by Samantha Ma and Longpeng Jiao.

The finalists and their presentations/projects, as selected by a panel of judges:

 

1st place

Fernando Vera

Automatic Vibrotactile Device for Apnea Interruption of Premature Infants

 

2nd place

Mario Orizabal

A Fuzzy Logic Implementation in Positional Vertigo Biofeedback Monitoring

 

3rd place

Fatima Ibrahim

Improving Emergency Medical Response for rural US: medical record sensors

 

 

Congratulations to the finalists.

The event preceded the 55th 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. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/ASME; Dr. Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN;   and contest coordinators: Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LAC EMB,  Dr. Maryam Moussavi, IEEE/LAC EMB, and Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Students and sponsors interested in The 13th Annual Bio-Tech Contest 2011 please check  http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.org.