Results
of The Third Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition
The Third Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2001 took place February 10, 2001. 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
The finalist and their proposals, as selected by a panel of eight judges, are: 2nd place
1st place Jennifer Garrett - "A
non-invasive device for blood glucose monitoring"
3rd place
Angel N. Martinez - "Smoke/carbon monoxide detection system for a deaf person"4th place
Anne Moore - "Analysis of human motion"
Congratulations to the finalists. They were recognized at the 46th Annual National
Engineers Week Honors and Awards Gala Banquet that took place February 24, 2001.
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. David Whitmoyer, IEEE; Mr. Frank Stankis, IEEE; and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, Chair, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, CSULB. Students and sponsors interested in The 4th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2002 please check www.csulb.edu/~druz/BMEBIOTECH or email to druz@csulb.edu.