News Type: Undergraduate Student News
BME students showcase solutions to health care needs at annual Design Day
During this year’s BME Design Day, 17 teams of biomedical engineering undergraduates and eight teams of CBID master’s students presented their year-long projects to hundreds of engineers, physicians, and industry leaders.
Medicine’s Problem-Solvers
Through their work in hospitals and labs, Johns Hopkins engineering undergrads come up with real-world solutions that are critical to improving patient care.
Treyetech wins $10,000 ‘Cure It!’ Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Team Treyetech won the 2018 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize worth $10,000 for its work in developing a new device that will make corneal transplant surgery easier to perform.
AssistENT wins $10,000 ‘Use It!’ Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
A team of undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University win the 2018 $10,000 “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for designing a product that can help those who suffer from chronic nasal obstruction.
A Souped-up Walker to Help Get Pediatric ICU Patients on Their Feet
An undergraduate student design team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University is developing a walker designed to get young patients in pediatric intensive care units up and moving as quickly as possible.
Hopkins BME students take top prizes at annual JHU Business Plan Competition
Three Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering teams won top prizes at the 19th annual Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition in a day-long event Friday that capped months of preparation and prototyping.
Johns Hopkins BME junior named Goldwater Scholar
Alaleh Azhir, a junior biomedical engineering major, is one of three Johns Hopkins students named a Goldwater Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year. Junior Rohan Panaparambil received honorable mention.
Two teams of Hopkins BME undergrads among winners at MIT young inventors competition
Two teams of Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students are among six groups to receive a 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, which recognizes promising young inventors from around the country.
Meet Tara Blair, BME senior
In this interview, Blair offers an inside look at what it’s like to study biomedical engineering, the opportunities and activities available to students at Johns Hopkins, and advice for incoming freshmen.
Students showcase design projects and compete in annual Shark Tank contest
The Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design held its fifth annual Fall Healthcare Innovation Showcase and Shark Tank where students presented their ongoing work to develop innovative solutions to unmet health care needs.
Two BME student teams receive O’Connor Entrepreneurship Funding
Founded by Johns Hopkins alum Ralph O’Connor and his wife, Becky, the O’Connor Fund program awards each team a $5,000 grant with the opportunity to earn $5,000 more by reaching certain milestones.
Students get a rush—and scientific data—during a day at Six Flags
At Johns Hopkins University, first-year biomedical engineering students recently headed to Six Flags America to measure how the acceleration of an amusement park ride can impact an individual's heart rate.
Johns Hopkins undergrad team takes second place at Collegiate Inventors Competition
A Johns Hopkins student invention aimed at helping people breathe easier won the silver prize in the 2017 national Collegiate Inventors Competition. The second-place award was announced Friday afternoon after final judging at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.
Undergrads kick off the semester with Design Sprint challenge
Students were challenged to design solutions to improve hand hygiene in high- and low-resource settings.
Freshmen compete in annual foam core challenge
Moving a Ping-Pong ball three meters may sound like a simple task, but a group of Johns Hopkins freshmen biomedical engineering students learned first-hand that sometimes the simplest task can be the most difficult.
Johns Hopkins undergrads among finalists in annual Collegiate Inventors Competition
The AssistENT team, formed by biomedical engineering majors during the 2016-17 school year, is one of six undergraduate finalists that will compete for top honors and prizes worth up to $10,000 during the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Undergrads bring home three awards from NIH DEBUT Challenge
Undergraduate design teams in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design won three awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge.
Learning the science behind imaging devices
Johns Hopkins students in the upper-level Imaging Instrumentation course showed off their year-end projects that ranged from a system to replicate an endoscopic procedure to a method of measuring blood flow in the body.
Students showcase prototypes at Design Day
The 2017 Biomedical Engineering Design Day drew hundreds of students, faculty, clinicians, and mentors to the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Eight master’s student teams and 14 undergraduate student teams represented the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design with projects spanning a range of clinical topics.
BME junior named Goldwater Scholar
Fernando Vicente Zegarra, a junior in biomedical engineering, has been recognized by the Goldwater Scholarship program for his outstanding promise in a research career.
Two from Hopkins BME receive 2017 Whitaker International Fellowships
Two students have been awarded 2017 Whitaker International Fellowships, a career-enhancing program that supports young biomedical engineers’ travels overseas to conduct research and take coursework.
Malinow Family Fund supports student projects over summer
The Malinow Family Fund has been used to help design prototypes, conduct experiments required for larger grants, purchase materials for testing, and schedule consultation sessions.
Jourdan Ewoldt earns top prize at BMES Undergraduate Research Day
Biomedical Engineering senior Jourdan Ewoldt took home the first place award at the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Day on March 10.
Six from Hopkins BME awarded NSF graduate research fellowships
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering will be home to six new Graduate Research Fellows – outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, or math graduate programs who have been recognized by the National Science Foundation.
Students aim to advance orthotics industry
Param Shah and Alex Mathews, two undergraduate students at the Whiting School of Engineering, are combining their backgrounds in computer science and biomedical engineering to improve the orthotics industry.
Students Train to Become Design Team Leaders
While many Johns Hopkins undergraduates spent January at home visiting friends and family, 13 biomedical engineering students spent their winter break taking the Design Team Clinical Immersion intersession course through the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.
Alex Mathews named to Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list
Alex Mathews, at right, of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named to the annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list for his work on Fusiform with classmate Param Shah, at left.
Undergrads win bronze in Collegiate Inventors Competition
A reusable cryotherapy system that could bring low-cost breast cancer treatment to women in rural South Africa has won the bronze prize for a Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering team in the undergraduate category of the 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. Prize winners were announced Friday at an event in Washington, D.C.
Students develop device to help reduce preventable deaths on the battlefield
CBID undergrad team develops CricSpike tool kit designed to save lives by improving accuracy of cricothyrotomy in emergency situations.
UMD-JHU BME Research Day trophy retained for third year
Johns Hopkins undergrads took top honors for a fourth year at this mid-atlantic regional competition. The trophy available since year two ; has been on Hopkins turf each of the last three years.