The 11th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2009 will take  place February 7, 2009. This year's theme of the contest is to develop and present a concept using Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical, and/or Electro-Optics to assist a persons' disability - or to improve a persons' ability to manage tasks that usually require assistance. The contest focus is on students' individual ideas and in particular, the contest provides a forum for these future engineers to share those ideas that focus on technology assisted care.

Sponsored by IEEE Coastal LA Section and by IEEE Los Angeles Council.

The finalists and their proposals, as selected by a panel of judges:

It could be you.....plan now

(The results will be posted after the recognition banquet.)

The Contest Panel members and/or judges (not more that one per participating institution):  Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech; Mr. Jack Iverson, IEEE/EMBS;  Dr. Richard Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste, CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Fleur Tehrani, CSUF; Dr. Dennis M. (Mike) Briggs, IEEE; and contest coordinators: Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Dr. Maryam Moussavi, CSULB, and Dr. Chris Druzgalski, CSULB. Students and sponsors interested in The 11th Annual IEEE Bio-Tech Contest 2009 please check Contact - http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/embs or email to druz@ieee.edu.