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Meinig School hosts 7th-annual Industry Engagement Day and Project Showcase

On Monday, May 7, the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering hosted the seventh-annual industry engagement day and project showcase for its master of engineering (M.Eng.) students. The daylong event, held in Weill Hall, brought students together with faculty, alumni and professional attendees to connect with the breadth of talent in the School’s M.Eng. program. Participating industry attendees included GE Healthcare, J&J Biosense, CTL (Center for Technology and License), Cornell Engineering Corporate Relations, Medicomp, Georgia AIM Startup Catalyst, INNOVARE Medical Technologies, and Intelispark, LLC.

Organized by Meinig School M.Eng. Director and Professor of Practice Newton de Faria, graduate field assistant Belinda Floyd, and seminar/events coordinator Suzanne Koehl, the program featured two keynote alumni speakers, Natasha Mohanty (M.Eng. 2018), Lead Program Integrator at GE Healthcare, and Nicole Wawrzyniak Needle (M.Eng. 2017), Regulatory and Quality Manager at Medicomp Inc, who shared their career insights and experiences. These talks were complemented by career panel sessions with early career and seasoned professionals who spoke about their companies, their challenges, and their pathway to success in the biomedical field. The afternoon session featured a project design showcase at which students showed and demonstrated their year-long design projects with industry sponsors including West Pharmaceutical, Baxter, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Reparo Surgical.

Following the showcase, student teams participated in a pitch competition presented to all attendees.

Student design projects were entered into three competitions, descriptions, the winners of which are as follows:

2023 Project Showcase competition winners

(for full design team descriptions, visit our M.Eng. commencement page):

Design Competition:

Judges evaluated the success of each team’s trajectory through the year on criteria including: business case, engineering, creativity, quality and merit, overall competence in design, and impact. 

First place:

Development of an Internal, Magnetically Actuated Distraction System for the Treatment of Craniosynostosis

Team:

Edward McGettigan, Connor Bittlingmaier, Joushva Kamble, Ziyang Zheng, Farid Aboharb

Second place:

System for the Maintenance and Growth of Ex Vivo Isolated Embryonic Chick Hearts

Team:

Parth Thirumalai Ananthanpillai, Devanshi Jain, Kunaal Sarhaya, Tiffany Pang, Riya Jain

Third place:

Development of a Knee Dynamometry Device Compatible with the Hospital for Specialized Surgery’s Knee Health Assessment Device

Team:

Rotimi Adetunji, Nicholas Allen, Skylar Cho, Parker Dean, Kunal Deo, Alan Jesky, Jordan Johnson

Pitch Competition

Judged on merit of the invention in the eyes of the stakeholders/investors as well as the quality of the pitch.

Winner:

System Based on Jugular Vein Dynamics for Management of Right Ventricle Insufficiency

Team: 

Tooba Subhani, Neha Sreedharala, Yanni He, Zhuoyi Chen and Yuhe Tian

AutoDesk Fusion 360 Competition:

A $2,000 prize to the teams that best used the Autodesk Fusion 360 cloud-based software platform during the design process. 

First place:

EchoMotion - an adjustable, active, lower limb prothesis

Team:

Emily Cook, Aleksandra Nasiukiewicz, Jesse Derby, David Bruk-Rodriguez

Second place:

Development of an Internal, Magnetically Actuated Distraction System for the Treatment of Craniosynostosis

Team:

Edward McGettigan, Connor Bittlingmaier, Joushva Kamble, Ziyang Zheng, Farid Aboharb

Third Place:

Development of a Novel Containment & Administration Solution for mRNA Vaccine Delivery

Team:

Roshni Banerjee, Harveen Bawa, Ricky Palacio

Presenter at the Industry day showcase
Students present at the Industry day showcase
Presenter at the Industry day showcase
Students demonstrate device to faculty
Students demonstrate device to faculty
Students demonstrate device to faculty
Students present at the Industry day showcase
Students demonstrate device to faculty
Students present at the Industry day showcase
Students present at the Industry day showcase
Students present at the Industry day showcase
Students present at the Industry day showcase

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