Results of the 5th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition

The 5th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2003 took place February 8, 2003. 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 and by IEEE Los Angeles Council

The finalists and their proposals, as selected by a panel of eight judges, are:

1st place Ali Sleiman "IHKLASS Bottle Pump for a Water Dispenser" (patent pending)

2nd place  Chela Manzo and David Veloz Jr. "Robotic Arm: Page-Turner"

3rd place Chris Grzegorczyk and Luke Szczebiot "Biomedical Image Analysis Using Fractal Dimension and Lacunacity"

Congratulations to the finalists. They were recognized at the 48th Annual National Engineers Week Honors and Awards Gala Banquet that took place February 15, 2003.   

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. David Braun, Calpoly SLO; Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN;  Dr. Fleur Tehrani, CSUF; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE;  and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, Chair, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, CSULB. Students and sponsors interested in The 6th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2004 please check www.csulb.edu/~druz/BMEBIOTECH or email to  druz@csulb.edu.


The 46th Annual National Engineers Week Honors and Awards Gala Banquet