BME Students Put Theory into Practice at Design Day 2022

At Craig M. Berge Design Day 2022, students, faculty and other friends of the College of Engineering celebrated coming together in person after two years of virtual events due to the pandemic.

Design Day – named for Craig M. Berge, a College of Engineering alum and longtime supporter of the college who passed in 2017 – is an annual opportunity for engineering seniors to present the results of their yearlong projects to the public and hundreds of judges. This year, 97 teams of students, who completed projects requested by industry and university sponsors, competed for $46,250 in prizes. 

BME student Clara Mersiowsky said that while she learned a lot through the year, her favorite part of the process was Design Day itself.

"I learned a lot more about materials science. I also learned a lot more about interdisciplinary projects and working with other engineers and applying that," she said. "It is so much fun being able to show people what we've worked so hard on, and to deliver a product to our sponsor."

Design Day also includes an award specifically in the biomedical realm: The Mark Brazier Award for Best Biomedical System Design. This year's $1,000 award went to Team 22049 for their work on "K - Dx - A Point-of-Care Potassium Diagnostic System." Team 22049 members are Prabhkirat Bindra, Reid Loeffler, Julia McElwee, Teresa Thuytien Pham and Vanessa Danielle Silbar.