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Tong Biomedical Engineering Design Awards Details

    The Tong BME Design Awards

    The annual competition is sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineering alumnus Peter Tong and the Tong Family Foundation. The Tong awards reward biomedical engineering undergraduate teams that design innovative solutions and develop outstanding prototypes. Their work addresses real challenges that University of Wisconsin medical and life sciences faculty and area biomedical companies face and offer for the students to solve.

    All designs will be judged at the end of the spring semester during the BME Design Expo final poster session held on the penultimate Friday of the spring semester, April 29, 2011. The panel will consist of guest entrepreneurs, innovators and biomedical industry leaders. Criteria for prize selection are the following:

    1. Has the team defined the client’s identified clinical/medical/scientific need?
    2. Has the team identified any competing devices/existing intellectual property?
    3. Are the design problem and the proposed solution clear and self explanatory?
    4. Does the design appear to satisfy the client's functional requirements?
    5. Is there evidence of significant technical progress?
    6. Is the prototype skillfully designed and constructed?
    7. Does the prototype work?
    8. Oral presentation: Does the team have a professional demeanor?

    The reception begins at 3:00 PM in the Tong Auditorium. Awards will be announced at 3:30 PM. Each team member of the winning design from each class (BME 201, 301, and 402) will receive:

    Attendees will be provided:

    NOTE: Posters will remain up and partially staffed from 2:00 to 3:00 PM to allow for informal viewing by students, faculty, judges, and guests.

    Questions about any part of the program may be directed to the program manager, Mitchell Tyler, at: metyler1@wisc.edu.

    BME Department Chair: M. Elizabeth Meyerand, PhD