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2025 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners

2025 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners
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The Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition was a tremendous success, showcasing an array of innovative submissions from talented students across the nation. Each project demonstrated creativity and practical solutions in biomedical engineering. Excitement filled the air as participants and attendees celebrated their hard work. Find out who won below! 

Chemical/Biological

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First Place

Selective Electronic peaNut Sensing Entity (SENSE): A Novel Method to Detect Peanut Allergen Presence in a Whole Plate of Food

Washington University in St. Louis

Myles (Max) S. Miller, Nicolas Chicoine, Cameron Freeman

Second Place 

VagAligna – Postpartum Healing Device

University of California, Irvine

Fiza Qureshi, Neha Muvvala, Lyna Luu

Third Place

ImmobiiCUFF: A Device to Enhance Postoperative Outcomes in Rotator Cuff Repair Patients

University of California, Davis

Veena Arunkumar, Saahil Sachdeva, Cynthia Ju, Rohan Kumar, Matthew Jue


Electrical/Computer Science

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First Place

Neuro-Personal Alert Safety System: Real-Time Neural Feedback Monitoring for Firefighters and First Responders

University of Missouri – Kansas City; Avila University

Gabriel Worcester, Christopher Marsh, Sita Gupta

Second Place

MedSura

The University of Toledo

Shawn Monteiro, Nabeel Khatri

Third Place

BariTrack

Arizona State University; American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine; George Mason University; Georgia Tech

Sahasra Pechetty, Nupur Hassan, Gunbir Singh, Meena Alzamani, Ala Al-Humadi, Deema Alzamani, Samyukta Iyer


Mechanical/Electrical

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First Place 

Engineering a Safe, Intelligent Halo Gravity Traction System for Effective Pre-Surgical Outpatient Treatment of Severe Idiopathic Scoliosis

North Carolina State University; UNC-Chapel Hill

Will Mueller, C.H. Malinchock, W.M. Mueller, E.W. Brown, P. Thapa, E. Keeley, E.D. Katz, H.G. Nguyen

Second Place

OcuSound: Accessible Glaucoma Monitoring with Acoustic Tonometry 

Johns Hopkins University

Nancy (Shuyi) Yan, Valerie Wong, HyunSeo (Emily) Lee, Elliott Leow, Ivan-Alexander Kroumov

Third Place

Simulated Microgravity Using Three Dimensional Clinorotation for Cell Culture Experiments

Boise State University

Stella Bristol, Skyler Kichak


2025 Special Category:
AI/ML Related to Patient Disease Diagnostics

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First Place

MeyeAttention: A Novel Diagnostic Device Using Machine Learning to Quantify Attention Dysregulation with Pupillometry

Cornell University

Sahaar Khoja, Sally Scofield, Genevieve Wager, Rahul Ramarao, Elizabeth Paperno, Paige Cobrin, Jared Ilan, Ian Vann

Second Place 

Kujali: An AI-Driven Decision-Support Tool for Labor Care

Johns Hopkins University

Sidharth Raghavan, Samhith Bhrugubanda

Third Place 

Neuroscan.ai: Intelligent Neurological Analysis

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tommaso Calviello, Matteo Calviello

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