Results of the 13th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 13th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contest 2011 took place
February 5, 2011. 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 UCLA.
Volunteer event support provided by
Johnny Yam with assistance
of Deborah Lin, Hong Yu, Willis Wong and in coordination with Dr. Mike Briggs The finalists and their presentations/projects, as selected by a panel
of judges: 1st place
Craig Euler Ara Mekhtarian
A Brain-Computer Interface for Autonomous
Wheelchair Mobility and Obstacle Avoidance
Sylvano Doddick
Smartphone Image Processing and Color Quantification
3rd place
David Dao
Android Application for Free-Fall Detection
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceded the 57th 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; Dr. Carmen Muller, USB; Dr. 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 14th Annual Bio-Tech Contest 2012 please check http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.org.