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.
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