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Three design teams compete
Three senior design teams from the Department of Bioengineering at Rice participated in
the Design Showcase at the 24th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering
Research in February.
This was the first year of the Design Showcase, hosted by the Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (HSEMB).
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| Team GQ, Jaskaran Gill, Jonathan Martinez, Drew McUsic, Joseph Valdez, and Albert Yu, won the first-place cash prize and trophy for their design of a fluorescence-based glucose detector at a Houston biomedical engineering conference. |
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“All three Rice teams did a great job,” said Z. Maria Oden, lecturer and laboratory coordinator for the Department of Bioengineering and chair of the Design Showcase. “This is no easy feat since the teams were still in the middle of completing their 2006-2007 senior design projects for the BIOE 451/452 capstone course sequence.”
As part of the course, students worked in teams of four or five on a single problem for the year. The teams are responsible for moving their projects from research, design conception, and building to prototyping, testing, and marketing. They must take into account such factors as FDA requirements, safety, engineering ethics, and intellectual property rights through the Rice Office for Technology Transfer.
“The experience is demanding, and it’s not unusual for a class of 38 students to log over 6,000 hours in completing their design projects,” Oden said.
At the Design Showcase, teams from Rice, Texas A&M, Louisiana Tech, and Tulane University competed by presenting their projects, posters and prototypes to those attending the conference and a panel of judges from industry and academia. Two Rice student teams received top awards.
Team GQ: Jaskaran Gill, Jonathan Martinez, Drew McUsic, Joseph Valdez, and Albert Yu, won the first place cash prize and trophy for their design of a fluorescence-based glucose detector. Their project was mentored by Oden and Ralph Ballerstadt at BioTex.
Second place honors went to Team ICE: Jon Ludwig, Mark Mendenhall, Jonathan Hanson, Christina Berry, and Tim Josef, for “Beyond Traditional Borders: Medicine Refrigeration Device,” which was mentored by Oden and Rob Raphael, assistant professor of bioengineering.
The 2007 Design Showcase and prizes were sponsored by Cyberonics, a medical device company based in Houston. The other Rice students receiving awards were Elizabeth Stephens, Mark Mendenhall and Neel Srikishen, from the laboratory of K. Jane Grande-Allen, assistant professor of bioengineering. Their poster was titled “Changes in Extracellular Matrix Production by Valvular Interstitial Cells with Aging.”
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