How impressed would you be to know that college students in Philadelphia are creating tech-enabled solutions to current problems in the modern medical field?
This reporter, for one, was extremely impressed after attending the Senior Design Expo at the George H. Stephenson Foundation Educational Laboratory and Bio-MakerSpace at the University of Pennsylvania. Last Wednesday afternoon, the Bio-MakerSpace was packed with senior biomedical engineering students who were demonstrating their projects to a panel of judges and other members of the university community.
Earlier that day, the groups had given 10-minute presentations of their projects to a panel of judges, Sevile Mannickarottu, lab director of the Bio-MakerSpace, and an instructor for these design projects, told me. In the course of the day, students presented the challenge they were aiming to solve and the technical…
