Wayne State Students In Top 10 In Worldwide Design Event
DETROIT -- A design by a team of undergraduate biomedical engineering students from the Wayne State University College of Engineering has been selected as one of the top 10 worldwide in the College Engineering category of the 2012 Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge.
Students Zahraa Bazzi, Stan Marek and Abrar Wazir submitted a design for a diabetic testing station that would allow an individual with the use of only one arm to independently test their blood glucose levels.
The global contest, sponsored by Dimension 3D Printing, encourages students to submit an innovative product design, a redesign of an existing product or an original work of art or architecture. Winners of the contest receive scholarships up to $2,500. According to a Dimension 3D release, a panel of independent judges from industry and the engineering media will select the winner this spring.
Other college design team finalists represent United States institutions in South Carolina, New York, Kentucky and Maryland, as well as institutions across the globe in Canada, Sweden, India and Germany.
"This is a tremendous achievement for our students and for our undergraduate biomedical engineering program," said Michele Grimm, undergraduate program chair and associate professor. "On behalf of the Biomedical Engineering Department, I congratulate Zahraa, Stan and Abrar and thank them for their continued efforts in being wonderful ambassadors for the College of Engineering and Wayne State University."
