Engineering World Health

[Steve.J]

National Instruments has recently become involved with Engineering World Health, a great organization focused on addressing healthcare technology in developing areas of the world.  With roots at Duke University's Biomedical Engineering Department, EWH has three main programs:

• Biomedical Technician (BMET) Training Program for educating hospital and clinic staff in remote locations in places like Rwanda, Ghana, and Honduras
• The EWH "Summer Institute" Program that takes biomedical engineering undergraduates into some of these same locations for 8 weeks to help put into repair inoperable donated medical equipment, as well as help train and assist the staff.
• EWH Chapters, Kits, and Design Competition are all programs focused on undergraduate BME students and revolve around the formation of a student-run EWH chapter.

The winners of the 2010 Design Competition were announced at this year's BMES conference in Austin.  The team from Georgia Tech took top honors with a innovative uninterruptible power supply design based on recycled 12V car batteries and junk PC power supply components.  See more about the winners in the EWH September Newsletter.

All you students out there:  join your local chapter or form one if your school doesn't have one yet - it's easy to do and a great way to get involved in real engineeirng design work that will can have an immediate impact on the world. National Instruments is making LabVIEW and other products available for  free to eligible teams that are entering the design competition this year, and entries that use LabVIEW will also be eligible for entry into NI's Student Design Competition too!

Hurry - contest entry info is due by January 14th!