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. Sponsorship: in part 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 Bio-Tech Contest 2011 please check https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.org.