Results of the 6th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 6th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2004 took place February
7, 2004. 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 Central Coast
Section, and by IEEE Los Angeles Council. The finalists and their proposals, as selected by a panel
of judges, were:
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Team project
Application of Nitinol Muscle Wires for Stimulation of
Blood Flow, Leo Petrossian and Casimir Blonski
Ž Individual projects
External Balance Compensator, Paul Ingerson*
Medical Equipment Grounding Alert, Ali Sleiman
Cross Walk Transmitters for Sight Impaired Persons, Scott Sepulveda
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Project presented in an expanded version at the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 1-5,2004. San Francisco, California (EMBC -2004. Linkages for Innovation in Biomedicine).
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceded the 49th Annual National Engineers Week.
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 7th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2005 please check www.csulb.edu/~druz/BMEBIOTECH or email to druz@csulb.edu.