Competitions
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Deadline: March 15th Website: IEEE EMBS
Site Synopsis:
Deadline: Friday, April 6, 2012
Website: BMEIdea
Site Synopsis:
The BMEidea Competition is sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Boston Scientific; MD&DI (Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry), a publication of Canon Communications LLC; and Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), in partnership with the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the Council of Chairs of Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Programs.
Competition winners will receive cash awards ($10,000 first place, $2,500 second place, and $1,000 third place), as well as access to resources to be used to further develop and commercialize their products. They will also have the opportunity to present their designs and business plans to representatives of investor organizations.
Graduate and Undergraduate teams allowed
Deadline: Register by April 27,2012
Submit by May 4,2012
Website: RESNA Student Design Competition
Site Synopsis: RESNA is the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America. We are a professional society for individuals and organizations interested in technology and disability. The purpose of RESNA is to contribute to the public welfare through scientific, literary, professional and educational activities by supporting the development, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge and practice pertaining to rehabilitation and assistive technology so that all citizens can achieve the highest quality of life.
Deadline: May 11, 2012
Website: BMEStart
Site Synopsis:
The world needs more effective, functional and affordable technology solutions to clinical medical problems. NCIIA's second annual BMEStart competition recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation. The competition is the first in the United States designed specifically for undergraduate biomedical and bioengineering students. By generating more activity and interest in this field locally, we can stimulate the invention of medical technologies and devices that are adopted as clinical solutions.
Prizes of $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 will be awarded to the three winning teams.
Undergraduate teams only
Deadline: May 26, 2012
Website: DEBUT
Site Synopsis:
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) DEBUT Challenge is open to teams of undergraduate students working on projects that develop innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. NIBIB’s mission is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies.
The goals of the challenge are
- to provide undergraduate students valuable experiences such as working in teams, identifying unmet clinical needs, and designing, building and debugging solutions for such open-ended problems
- to generate novel, innovative tools to improve healthcare, consistent with NIBIB’s purpose to support research, training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to biomedical imaging and engineering and associated technologies and modalities with biomedical applications
- to highlight and acknowledge the contributions and accomplishments of undergraduate students.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Website: Collegiate Inventors
Site Synopsis:
Introduced in 1990, the Collegiate Inventors Competition has recognized, rewarded, and encouraged hundreds of students to share their inventive ideas with the world. The Competition promotes exploration in invention, science, engineering, technology, and other creative endeavors and provides a window on the technologies from which society will benefit in the future.
Each year up to 12 finalists in Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions receive an all-expenses paid trip to present their work to a panel of expert judges in Washington, D.C. In 2010, the top Graduate prize was $15,000 and the top Undergraduate Prize was $10,000. Other prizes are awarded to select finalists. Academic advisors of each winning entry also receive a cash award.
2013 Competitions
1. ASME: Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices
Website: ASME
Deadline: 1/13
2. IEEE: 2011 President's Change the World Competition
Website: IEEE
Deadline: 1/31
