2018 iBEST Design Competition
Congratulations to our 2018 iBEST Design Competition winners.
1st – Taspia Wahid, Abdeirahman Abdou & Jennifer Eshoua
Title: Automate – Physiological Fatigue Detection System for Drowsy Driving Prevention
2nd – Michelle Hassan, William Mero & Sharon Nguyen
Title: TherapyBuddy
3rd – Vaskar Gnyawali & Amarnadh Nalla
Title: Understanding Physiologic Oxygen and Red Blood Cells using Microfluidics
Poster Competition Prizes
First Place: $3,000.00
Second Place: $1,500.00
Third Place: $500.00
2018 Design Competition Shortlist
KeraSelfiCone, by Mhamed Ouzzani & Kirsten Cardinell
Automate – Physiological Fatigue Detection System for Drowsy Driving Prevention, by Taspia Wahid, Abdeirahman Abdou, & Jennifer Eshoua
Understanding Physiologic Oxygen and Red Blood Cells using Microfluidics, by Vaskar Gnyawali & Amarnadh Nalla
Analyze My Voice – A Smartphone App for Parkinsonian Dysphonic Screening and Monitoring, by Alice Rueda
TherapyBuddy, by Michelle Hassan, William Mero & Sharon Nguyen
Judges Panel
Dr. Bryan Koivisto, Associate Professor, Director, Science Discovery Zone
Dr. Fazila Seker, Director, Technology & Venture Development, MaRS Innovation
Dr. Rafik Loutfy, Director, Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Dr. Ryan Van Wert, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Biomedical Zone
Tony Orsi, Partner, Bereskin & Parr LLP
Eligibility
- Project must be led by a full/part-time student (group or individual) from any academic institution around the world.
- Projects that have utilized significant research funding (>$100k) or are run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.
- Project must be a biomedical innovation related to our Research Themes.
- Biomaterials, Tissue Injury & Repair (BTR)
- Biomedical Delivery Systems (BDS)
- Biomedical Imaging & Therapy (BIT)
- Healthcare Analytics & Applications (HAA)
- Device, hardware, and digital solutions as well as research discoveries and innovations are eligible.
- Project must have been started after July 1st, 2017.
Please see the Full Contest Rules for the 2018 iBEST Design Competition.
If you have any questions regarding your project’s eligibility, please contact the iBEST Coordinator, Imran Sheikh, at ibest@torontomu.ca.
Simplified Rubric for Design Brief
The Design/Discovery Brief is a 2-page executive summary of your design project. The brief should be written for an audience of engineers and scientists that are likely not intimately familiar with your biomedical or healthcare solution.
Content
Design/Discovery Briefs will be evaluated by following four criteria. We recommend devoting sections devoted to each criterion.
- Problem Description (25%): Define the problem you are addressing, the biomedical/healthcare background, and why there is a need for a better solution.
- Design Solution (25%): Present your proposed solution with your design rationale and explain how it meets the needs of the stakeholders involved in your biomedical/healthcare problem.
- Application (25%): Describe the proof-of-concept experimental results you have completed and/or renderings and photos of your prototype.
- Implementation (25%): Describe the pathway that lies ahead for your project towards creating an impactful solution.
Format
- Font size of 11 points or larger.
- Use standard paper size (8 ½” x 11″).
- Use at least one-half inch margins for all pages.
- Figures, plots, reference, and/or photos are highly recommended but are counted towards the page limit.
- Any design/discovery briefs longer than 2 pages will be disqualified from the competition.
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