Results of the 8th Annual BME Bio-Tech Competition

The 8th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2006 took  place February 4, 2006. 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 Los Angeles Council, and IEEE San Fernando Valley Section.

 

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

1st place

Manuel Hernandez

The EyeTech - Design of an Ultrasonic Sensor System To Guide The Blind

2nd place

Naresh Shenoy Kotacherry

Evaluation of Thoracic & Abdominal Movements using a Software Tool

3rd place (listed alphabetically)

Ali Sleiman

Advanced Method of attachment for Prosthetic Shoulder system.

Saravana Kumar Raman

3-D Modeling and Analysis of Flow-Volume Loops

 

The finalist - Special recognition

Amir Shahheydari, Andre Korostelev

Voice Activated Device and Rehabilitation

Elinor Velasquez and Emmanuel R. Yera

The Wavelet Metric for Drug Discovery

 

(The results were announced  at the 51st Annual National Engineers Week banquet.)

 

Congratulations to the finalists.

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. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Fleur Tehrani, CSUF; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE, Luis Castro, PAHCE; and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, Chair, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, CSULB. Students and sponsors interested in The 8th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2006 please check (Contact - https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs) or email to druz@csulb.edu.