Innovation
Students Place First in Biomedical Engineering Competition
TEAMWORK: Biomedical engineering
students Justin Goldstein ’07, Joseph Lust ’07,
Mitchele Au ’07, and Brian Duffy ’07 took first place
in a national competition for their portable device to improve the
way medicine is pumped into IVs for people with
disabilities.
Four students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering won a national competition for coming up with a design that could help people with disabilities who rely on intravenous pumps to receive medicine and nutrients.
Mitchele Au ’07, of Happy Valley, Hong Kong; Brian Duffy ’07, of Cazenovia, N.Y.; Justin Goldstein ’07, of Stoughton, Mass.; and Joseph Lust ’07, of Mocksville, N.C., designed a portable, low-cost device that interfaces with an infusion pump.
The team placed first in the Accessible Infusion Pump Interface category of this year’s national competition sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation.
The four competed as the Inf-U-Tech team from the senior design class taught by Amy Lerner, associate professor of biomedical engineering.
The team’s showing marks the third year in a row that the 7-year-old biomedical engineering department has placed first or second in the competition.
