Results of the 9th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition

The 9th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2007 took  place February 3, 2007. 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  IEEE Los Angeles Council,.

 

The finalists and their presentations/projects, as selected by a panel of judges:

1st place

Jason McDowell

“Design of a Color Sensing System to Aid the Color Blind”

2nd place

Diana Mamaril

“Posture Correction Device Using Tilt Switch”

3rd place

Saravana Kumar Raman

“Correlation of Pulmonary Acoustics and Flow/Volume Loops Indicators” 

4th place

Ali Sleiman

“Analyzing ECG waveform with Artificial Neural Network by MATLAB”

 

(The results were announced  at the recognition banquet.)

 

Congratulations to the finalists.

The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution) were:  Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Mr. Jack Iverson, IEEE/EMBS; 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, IEEE/CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/CSULB.

Students and sponsors interested in The 10th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2008 please check (Contact - https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs) or email to druz@ieee.org.