The 18th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2016 took  place February 6, 2016. 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.

Sponsored  by:

in part by IEEE CLAS Section  and Inter-academic cooperation.
      

The event took place at USC courtesy of Dr. Ellis Meng, Chair Biomedical Engineering Department,  Shira Bernard (Facility arrangements), Robert Ritter and Winston Tran (Facility Technical Support)

The finalists and their projects as selected by the panel of judges:
 

Biomedical Engineering Track

1st place
Design of a Motorized Wobble Board for Rehabilitative Training of Patients with Severe Ankle Injuries
Vian Rejuso

2nd place
Analysis and Quantification of Osteoporosis 
Kumar Gautam

3rd place
Analysis of Scoliosis Curve (radiograph)
Shorav Singh Suriya

Health Assessment Track

1st Place
Beating Cardiac Cell and Pacemaker Macrostructures Produced on 3-D Printed Substrates
Merry Ann Sta. Maria

2nd Place
Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Cycler Modeling
Marvin Rodriguez

3rd Place
Parkinson Disease Detection Using Accelerometer with Display.
Meet T. Shah


Special recognition
"Self-Skin Diagnosis” an Android based smartphone and tablet application to detect skin disease.
Vishal Musale