Design-A-Thon
BTEC X BMES Design-A-Thon
General Information
We are excited to announce that BU BMES is collaborating with BTEC to create our third year-long Design-A-Thon 2024-2025!
Students will have the opportunity to work with a graduate student mentor and utilize BTEC resources to bring their project to life and compete for a chance to win a prize! Regardless of the outcome, this is a great opportunity to work on a long-term project, gain leadership experience, and form connections with graduate students and industry partners.
The Challenge
This competition is focused on increasing access to healthcare technologies or incorporating diversity into a design to improve healthcare outcomes.
Student projects should amplify a sense of the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion and convey it to the larger community within an engineering design context.
Categories:
1. Data Science, Precision, & Predictive Medicine
2. Molecular & Tissue Engineering, & Drug Delivery
3. Biosensors, Medical Devices, & Diagnostics
Challenge Statement and Judging Criteria
The Prizes
3 first place prizes:
$1000 for each category
$100 for each winning-team graduate student
$250 student choice award
Eligibility and Registration
Teams should contain 1-5 members (undergraduate/LEAP students). At least one student per group must be in the College of Engineering.
Registration for final presentation: TBA
Final Presentation Registration Form: https://forms.gle/J92KpfTGH9brmYtU7
For Competitors
Each team will have a $250 budget for supplies that must be ordered through BTEC.
Please use the following form for supply requests: https://forms.gle/kwYiQZrLgpGPRNNz8.
Please note that we cannot grant reimbursements for purchases so please be sure to submit all requests for supplies through the form. Orders may take about 2 weeks to arrive so please plan accordingly
Forms
SIGN-UP!!! – Click here!
Looking for a Team? – Click here!
Suggested Dates
(You can still sign up past these dates!)
- Kick-Off Meeting: September 26th, 2024 – 6:30-7 PM in BTEC 201
- Sign-ups Deadline: September 29th, 2024**
- Initial Ideas Due: September 30th, 2024**
- Meetings with Mentors – Round 1: October 1st, 2024 – October 31st, 2024
- Project Proposal Presentations: December 7th, 2024
- Project Check-in: TBA
- Meetings with Mentors – Round 2 (Development of Protoype):
- January 1st, 2025
- February 1st, 2025
- March 3rd, 2025
- April 5th, 2025
- Registration for Final Presentation: TBA
- Final Project Presentations/ Banquet: April 26th, 2025
**Any students who wish to join the competition past the initial ideas deadline, please email either bmes.bu@gmail.com or btec@bu.edu
^Except for the underlined dates, all others are tentative as of the kickoff meeting – 2024
Mentors
See dropdown section titled “2024-2025 Mentors” to view potential mentors!
What are mentors?: Mentors are graduate students who specialize in specific fields in biomedial engineering and assist competitors in creating their devices.
How do you get a mentor?: Competitors can reach out to any mentor in the dropdown section that has expertise in the subject of their project. Just send them an email to ask for advice/guidance!
Safety Trainings
To use all of the BTEC, SILab, and EPIC spaces, you must have the proper safety training. These must be completed prior to Initial Project Submission
All other information can be found in this google drive folder: CLICK ME