Results of the 19th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 19th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2017 took place
February 11, 2017. 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 Inter-academic cooperation: The event took place at
Caltech
courtesy of the Electrical Engineering Department,
Special thanks to
Carol Sosnowski and Dr.
Michelle Effros
for the arrangements and Jason Huang and Camilo Saavedra for the facility
technical support. The finalists and their proposals, as selected by a panel
of judges:
Biomedical Engineering Track 1st place
Assistive Device – Page Turner
Phuong Tran
2nd place
Development of a technique used for the diagnosis of strabismus for any age
group. Calculation of degree of Strabismus using image processing.
Shorav Singh Suriyal
3rd place
3D reconstruction of the Locus Coeruleus of Alzheimer’s Disease of Early Stages
as a Visualization Tool for Monitoring Disease Progression.
Patricia Castruita
Biotech Track
1st place
Low Voltage Human Hearing Loss Simulation Device Prototype
Jeremy Wishner
2nd place
Experimental Evaluation of Sleep Quality
Christian Rogers
3rd place
Genetic Programmed Environmental Sampling Processor (ESP) for Remote Ocean
Mixtotroph Detection
Valerie Solinap
Special recognition
An Image Processing Approach for Calculating the Center of Mass
Kumar Gautam
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceeded the 65th Annual National Engineers Week.
The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution): Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ali Sleiman IEEE/LA EMB, Dr. Jim Harber, Dr. Anas Salah Eddin, CSUP, and contest coordinators: Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LA EMB, Dr. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/LA EMB, Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC . Sponsors interested in The 20th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contest 2018 please email to druz[AT]ieee.org.