Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Students Showcase Products To Benefit Consumer Health

May 6, 2008

Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon
(412) 268-5776

Event: Carnegie Mellon University’s biomedical engineering students will feature demonstrations of medical products and tools designed to benefit consumer health and improve operating room efficiency. Nine competitive teams from the university’s biomedical engineering senior design class will unveil prototype tools and products ranging from implantable probes for measuring the health of  kidneys to the creation of a robotic tool for assisting surgeons conducting deep brain surgery.

James F. Antaki, course instructor and a professor of  biomedical engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon, will assess the product designs.
  
When: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Thursday, May 8.

Where: Singleton Room, Roberts Engineering Hall, off of Frew Street, Carnegie Mellon University.

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu.