The 10th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2008 took  place January 26, 2008. 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

Fatima Ibrahim
Safer Automobile Manufacturing 

2^nd place

Ali Sleiman
Implementation of the WATERIDE System- Solving Technical Challenges.

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Andre Korostelev
3D Modeling of Thorax and Abdomen with Matlab Image Processing and Virtual Reality Toolboxes 

 4^th place 

Ahmed Ibrahim
Use of Spring reinforced Urethane Windshields for protection against automobile injury and death

(The results were announced  at the recognition banquet.)

The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution) were:  Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech;  Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE; Dr. Panadda (Nim) Marayong, IEEE/ASME; and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, IEEE/CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/CSULB.