Student Competition 2012

The EMHD Annual Medical and Health Engineering Student Project Competition is the foremost medical engineering student project competition in the UK and provides an opportunity for students across a wide variety of disciplines to present their work. The competition expanded in 2012 to include entrants presenting health technology projects, and a new poster presentation category.

EMHD student extravaganza 2012

The Engineering in Medicine and Health Division is pleased to announce that the Competition finals on 29 February 2012 were a great success. Congratulations to the winners and finalists:

Vicon Prize
Winner - Melissa Gabriel, Queen Mary University of London
The Effect of Shockwave Lithotripsy on Encrusted Urological Stents

Finalist – David Bishop, University of Ulster
The Development of a Biomaterial for Spinal Cord Injury via the manipulation of Neural Cells by Micro/Nano Topographies

Finalist – Daniel Allen, Patrick Byrnes and Richard Childs, Cork Institute of Technology
Prosthetic Shoulder Stem Sandblasting Process Automation

Corin Group Prize
Winner – Bernadette Deere, University of Sheffield
Development of a Segmentation Programme for Quantification of Stimulated Cell Response

Finalist – Theresa Royles, University of Surrey
Novel Signal Processing of Photoplethysmography Signals for Comparison of Electrocardiography and Photoplethysmography derived Heart Rate Variability Data and Improving the Accuracy of Pulse Transit Time Measurement

Finalist – Samantha Simons, University of Surrey
Quadratic Sample Entropy Analysis of the Electroencephalogram in Alzheimer’s Disease

Medimaton Prize
Winner – David Noonan, Imperial College London
A Flexible Access Platform for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Finalist – Theofano Eftaxiopoulou, Imperial College London
Measuring Elbow Kinematics in Cricket Bowling

Finalist – Alexander Dickinson, University of Southampton
Development of Computational Biomechanical Tools to Assess the Performance of the Resurfaced Hip Joint

MediMaton Prize for best PhD Thesis Poster Presentation

Winner - Dr. Eliesmaziah Alias, University of Liverpool
Polyurethane as a substrate for cell transplantation in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Dr Eliesmaziah Alias has just completed her PhD in the Department of Eye & Vision Science at the University of Liverpool. Previously, Eliesmaziah studied pre-clinical medicine at the Imperial College, London before completing a degree in Mechanical Engineering BSc. with the Open University. She subsequently gained a distinction in an MSc. in Medical Engineering with the University of Liverpool.
In the Department of Eye and Vision Science the non-clinical and clinical scientists from a range of backgrounds work closely together studying the mechanisms, prevention, early detection and treatment of eye diseases including research themes on Advanced Cell-based Therapies and Ophthalmic Bioengineering. Eliesmaziah's PhD project was kindly jointly sponsored by Biomer Technology Ltd. who also supplied the polyurethane used in the research and the EPSRC via the Health Technologies and Medicines KTN. She is continuing to work closely with industry and clinical colleagues to take the next steps to translate this research into clinical practice.

JRI Poster Prizes

Winner Masters Category - Esfandiar Khaleghi, University of Birmingham
Further investigation of a research project “Innovative seating systems”

Poster Presentation

This paper presents an investigation of a research project titled "Innovative Seating Systems" by BMW Group "Research and Technology" Team. It is based on my idea and reports about "Benefits of using Bionic Seats in Roadster cars" which is submitted and accepted by BMW Group Co-Creation Lab in March 2010. In this paper, three BMW Group revolutionary innovative seating systems, Bionic Seat, Ergo Seat and Formfitting seat Space Comfort Shell will be investigated in terms of comfort and safety. They will be studied and examined by various virtual applications to visualize their reactions and finally be judged. These three conceptual seats will be utilised and tested by current massaging systems, Active and Passive Safety options as well. Moreover, whiplash effect during rear impact and its occurrence probability would be calculated. - This work is done under BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre.

Winner Undergraduate Category - John Ong Xue Guang, National University of Singapore
Microchip for the Detection of Circulating Tumour Cells from Peripheral Blood

Finalist - Yewande Raji, Queen Mary University of London
Wear particle generation from surface engineered bearings

Finalist - Gracielynne Flores, University of Sheffield
Investigating the Reliability of Image Analysis in Detecting the First Stage of Diabetic Retinopathy

A big congratulations and thanks goes out to all of you who made the day a success!