BME Seniors Display Award-Winning Inventions at Design Day 2019

On April 29, at the 17th annual UA Engineering Design Day, 55 biomedical engineering students on interdisciplinary teams showcased two semesters' worth of sweat, tears and time on their senior capstone projects while competing for more than $35,000 in prizes.

With support from W.L. Gore and Associates, the BME department itself sponsored nine projects, ranging in scope from a bioreactor for engineered cartilage tissue to a virtual reality CPR training system to a portable electrophoresis machine, and from a robotic device to help people with damaged joints walk to a bruise age measurement sensor that could help fight child abuse. 

Congratulations to all BME's hardworking seniors, including those on the following award-winning teams:

• Roche Tissue Diagnostics Award for Innovation in Engineering ($1,500)
  Phoenix Analysis & Design Award for Best Use of Prototyping ($750)
  Frank Broyles Engineering Ethics Award, Honorable Mention ($250)
  Ankle Fusion Joint Preparation System
  Team 18038, including Elizabeth Budiman, Dean DeBonis, Aidan Dolby and Isaac Russell
  Project sponsor: Paragon 28
• W.L. Gore and Associates Award for Most Creative Solution ($1,250)
  Portable Medical Diagnostics in Deep Space
  Team 18067, including Meghna Saikumar Jayaraman, Christian Jennings, Emily Monroe and Jennifer Ngo
  Project sponsor: UA Department of Biomedical Engineering
• ACSS/L-3 Communications Award for Most Robust Systems Engineering ($1,000)
  Wireless Body Temperature Sensor for Implantable Ports
  Team 18047, including Allison Edwards, Ian Jackson, Alexys Manring, Matthew Slobodianuk and Joshua Sayre Pace
  Project sponsor: C.R. Bard
• Ball Aerospace Go Beyond Award for Pioneering Design ($1,000)
  Bruise Age Measurement Sensor
  Team 18078, including Samantha Davidson, Alexandra Janowski, Ghazal Moghaddami, Claudia Segura Oroz and Alexa Shumaker
  Project sponsor: UA Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Dataforth Corporation Award for Best Design Using a Data Acquisition and Control System ($500)
  Dairy Animal Detection and Environmental Control System
  Team 18045, including Caroline Schulte
  Project sponsors: UA School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Department of Biosystems Engineering
• Microsoft Fish Out of Water Award, First Prize ($750)
  Devin Murphy of Team 18025
  Project sponsor: UA Department of Entomology
• II-VI Optical Systems Fish Out of Water Award, Second Prize ($500)
  Patarajarin Akarapipad of Team 18071
  Project sponsor: UA Department of Biomedical Engineering