Welcome

Welcome

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 33rd Spring Biomedical Engineering Symposium, the signature event of our Harrington Bioengineering Program and the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE). Here, our graduating class of bioengineering seniors, as well as, our BME juniors and Master’s students, anxiously look forward to meeting you and presenting their exciting prototype developments and applied research projects. After witnessing the impressive health care technology innovations proudly displayed at the symposium, we hope you agree that our biomedical engineering students are poised to address the ever pressing and challenging unmet clinical needs that persist throughout the world in the 21^st Century.

It is this impetus that the SBHSE faculty, together with the leadership in the Fulton Schools of Engineering and our external advisory boards, continue to strive for a world class biomedical engineering program that produces an agile, innovative and entrepreneurial health care technology workforce for the MedTech Industry to meet the ever pressing 21st Century health care needs in Arizona and the world. The accomplishments of our Bioengineering students witnessed at this symposium would not be possible without their collective vision. It would also not be possible to sustain the level of achievement year in and year out without the assistance of our dedicated biomedical engineering instructors our professional staff, graduate teaching assistants and facilitators, devoted mentors and judges consisting of BME faculty and colleagues, BME alumni, as well as, mentors from our clinical and industry partnerships. We sincerely thank all of you for contributing your time and expertise toward achieving this common goal.

We are also fortunate to have an ever-expanding BME community of partners who, year in and year out, tirelessly support the development of the next generation of biomedical engineering researchers, design thinkers, product developers and innovators equipped with state-of-the-art skill sets, an entrepreneurial mindset and a rich and deepening culture of innovation at ASU. Now in its 7th consecutive year as the #1 leading culture of innovation in US universities, ASU continues to fuel the rapidly emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in Arizona. At ASU, the culture of innovation within SBHSE’s longstanding biomedical engineering program continues to fuel its next generation of health care technology leaders to tackle even the most pressing of grand challenges in health care delivery in the 21st Century. Clear evidence of SBHSE’s entrepreneurial capacity building of the 21st Century workforce in health care technology is abound as witnessed by the continued fury of successes acclaimed by our biomedical engineering design teams in taking top honors in local, regional, national and international design competitions and the rapidly increasing number of patents filed, as well as, the emergence of start-ups, now an emerging reality.

SBHSE is also very proud to once again host a special group of BME Capstone alumni, now are in their ‘4+1’ BME masters program. our Master Card Foundation Scholars from our global partner, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi, Ghana. Now, in its fifth year, KNUST engineering students typically spend their senior year and also their graduate masters studies at ASU. Although, the cohort this year spent their ASU BME senior capstone year virtually in Ghana, this year, these Ghana Master Card Foundation Scholars have been busy working on their Masters applied projects in person on the Tempe Campus. The rich diversity that KNUST and all our international BME students represent continue to bring a unique and enriching global perspective as witnessed at this symposium and evidenced throughout our SBHSE program.

Also, now in its fourth year, SBHSE’s unique partnership with Creighton University’s third and fourth year entrepreneurial medical students, who are undergoing rotations at Dignity Health in Phoenix, continues to thrive. These entrepreneurial medical students take precious time from their very busy clinical schedules to identify clinical unmet needs and serve as clinical mentors for our biomedical engineering capstone design teams. These exceptionally innovative medical students continue to do an outstanding job mentoring our BME senior design students as evidenced by the quality of their innovative capstone projects. With the ASU-Creighton University partnership (CBIG) firmly in place, SBHSE looks forward to expand our collective vision based upon our early success with this unique model to our evolving BME medical device global health innovation program.

Lastly, we are excited to welcome our latest partnership with the Research Operation Integration Group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This year, three BME capstone teams have been working diligently on biomedical engineering design projects that seek to provide innovative solutions to improve the health needs of NASA crew members. We look very forward to growing this ASU BME-NASA partnership.

On behalf of our BME student presenters and our dedicated staff and faculty, along with our affiliated colleagues and our clinical and industrial partners of the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE), we proudly present our biomedical engineering innovators and their understudies at our all virtual, 33rd continuous biannual biomedical engineering symposium. Please ‘drop in’ from wherever you may be and join us in celebrating SBHSE’s Class of 2022 and their outstanding achievements. Please do enjoy our 33rd Spring BME Symposium!