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!
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
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
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
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