Results of the 8th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 8th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2006 took place
February 4, 2006. 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 IEEE Coastal LA Section, IEEE Los Angeles
Council, and IEEE San Fernando Valley Section. The finalists and their presentations/projects, as selected by a panel
of judges:
1st
place
Manuel Hernandez
The EyeTech - Design of
an Ultrasonic Sensor System To Guide The Blind
2nd place
Naresh Shenoy Kotacherry
Evaluation of Thoracic &
Abdominal Movements using a Software Tool
3rd place
(listed alphabetically)
Ali Sleiman
Advanced Method of
attachment for Prosthetic Shoulder system.
Saravana Kumar Raman
3-D Modeling and Analysis
of Flow-Volume Loops
The finalist - Special recognition
Amir Shahheydari, Andre
Korostelev
Voice Activated Device
and Rehabilitation
Elinor Velasquez and
Emmanuel R. Yera
The Wavelet Metric for
Drug Discovery (The results were announced at the 51st Annual National
Engineers Week banquet.) Congratulations to the finalists.
The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution) were: Dr. Willis Downing, CSUN; Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Mr. Jack Iverson, IEEE/EMBS; Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Fleur Tehrani, CSUF; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE, Luis Castro, PAHCE; and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, Chair, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, CSULB. Students and sponsors interested in The 8th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2006 please check (Contact - http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs) or email to druz@csulb.edu.