The BME Department congratulates all the students who participated in our Zoom Project Presentation Day event on April 30. Despite the highly unusual circumstances this year, our faculty and external judges were very impressed.
The overall winner of the Provost’s MQP Award in Biomedical Engineering is:
The Research and Development of an Equine Endotracheal Y-Piece Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (EETYPEEP) Valve
Elizabeth Butler, advised by Prof. Raymond Page
Watch her project video here.
The two projects tied for the BME Department MQP Excellence Award are:
Designing Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Trousers
Catherine Blejwas, Megan Heinle, Anne Hughes and Colleen O’Malley, advised by Jeannine Coburn.
Watch their project video here.
Design of a Bio-Realistic Surgical Phantom for Colorectal Surgical Training
Shanna Bonanno, Mark Bray, Parima Sharma, Isabelle Sillo and Amy Tran, advised by George Pins and Dr. Thomas Cataldo (Beth Israel Deaconess).
Watch their project video here.
Anti-Shock Trousers EETYPEEP Testing Surgical Phantom
The faculty expresses their sincere thanks to the BME Department's students as well as the many individuals who helped to make this unique event the success that it was. ?We are particularly grateful to the BME Department staff, Lynda Hammett, Ina Gjencaj, Sue Smith, Lisa Wall, Rob Kirch, Prof. Ray Page, and Prof. Sakthikumar Ambady for the countless hours of work preparing for the day.
We would also like to thank our distinguished panel of external judges: David Spenciner, Principal Engineer, (DePuy Mitek), John Favreau, R&D Engineer, (Boston Scientific), Jim Ritchey (Instron), Randal Chinnock, Founder/Director, (Southbridge Technology Incubator), Lee Sierad, Founder/GM (Aptus, LLC) and Joe Doherty (Scapa Healthcare) for their time and efforts in making the day a success.