Results of the 12th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition The 12th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contest 2010 took place
February 6, 2010. 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 CLAS Section The event took place at USC courtesy of the USC
Department of Biomedical Engineering - Dr. Michael Khoo and Chris Noll.
Volunteer event support provided by Samantha Ma and Longpeng Jiao. The finalists and their presentations/projects, as selected by a panel
of judges: 1st place
Fernando Vera
Automatic Vibrotactile Device for Apnea Interruption of Premature Infants
2nd
place
Mario Orizabal
A Fuzzy Logic Implementation in Positional Vertigo Biofeedback Monitoring 3rd place
Fatima Ibrahim
Improving Emergency Medical Response for rural US: medical record sensors
Congratulations to the finalists.
The event preceded the 55th Annual National Engineers Week.
The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution): Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE; Dr. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/ASME; Dr. Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; and contest coordinators: Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LAC EMB, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, IEEE/LAC EMB, and Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Students and sponsors interested in The 13th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2011 please check http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.org.