Recently, the final of the 7th National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Students hosted by the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering and organized by Zhejiang University drew a successful end. After fierce competition in the preliminaries and finals, Zhang Hao, Chen Ze, and Wu Xipeng, graduate students supervised by Professor Li Wei of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of BMU Hospital, won third prize for their project Functional Electrical Stimulation Rehabilitation Treadmill.
3,863 contestants registered for the competition and 1,025 applications were submitted, which marked the largest number of contestants and applications in the competition's history. The competition is a national discipline-specific competition for college students commenced in 2014 with support from the Education Supervisory Committee of Biomedical Engineering in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, and seven sessions of the competition have been successfully held so far. This year, the competition attracted more than 100 universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University. Nearly 30 senior experts and scholars from Peking University, Peking Union Medical College, Southeast University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Chongqing University, and Shenzhen University served as experts in the judge panel of this year's competition. The teams brought high-quality works that were aligned to the medical and health needs and based on interdisciplinary integration and fully reflected the profound thinking of the young people on national health strategy and development and their care for the people's well-being.
The team from the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of BMU Hospital won an award for the first time at the competition. The participation effectively cultivated the students' ability of practical skills, innovation, and team spirit and improved their comprehensive analysis of practical problems. The competition provided opportunities for networking, improvement, and motivation for the university to accelerate the development of the biomedical engineering discipline and promote the education of the biomedical engineering specialty.
SOURCE: The First School of Clinical Medicine (BMU Hospital)
BY: Geng Le, Zhang Hao
