The ABEC Design Competition has been launched

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The Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), together with the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC) and the UBORA consortium,  is holding the 2019 ABEC Design Competition with the theme ‘Cross-Cutting Issues in Healthcare: Global Technology Innovations in Surgery, Obstetrics and Anesthesia’.

This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary ideas, overlapping engineering and medicine paradigms, from student teams. The sought ideas should tackle global challenges associated with surgical practice, obstetrics and anesthesia with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Sustainable solutions can only be developed if engineers engage collaboratively with those at the forefront of delivering healthcare.

Successful teams emerging from the design competition will have one team member invited to a one-week design school featuring an innovative Conceive Design Implement Operate (CDIO) instructional framework empowered by the UBORA an e-infrastructure for the co-design of open-source medical devices.

It is a two-stage competition: the first-stage deadline is on April 1st 2019.

For submission procedure, evaluation criteria, scholarships, and other important dates please refer to the Competition page.

UBORA design competition 2018 has been launched

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The UBORA design competition 2018, announced during the closing ceremony of the UBORA design school in Nairobi,  officially started in the first days of January.

The competition seeks innovative biomedical engineering solutions from students (individuals or teams) addressing healthcare problems faced by the ageing society promoting Healthy Ageing, enabling individuals to live both longer and healthier lives, or can be used in treatments of age-related diseases, syndromes, and disabilities.

For the best-ranked projects, travel from the university town to Pisa and back and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the UBORA Design School 2018 to be held at University of Pisa (Pisa – Italy) from 3rd to 7th September 2018. Specific places are reserved for students of ABEC partners. 

The first stage deadline is on March 1st: you can find all the information here.

You can also help us in disseminating the competition by printing and attaching the competition flyer in your university! Thanks in advance!

Eng. Philippa Makobore an outstanding African innovator!

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Philippa Ngaju Makobore, ABEC contact point at UIRI, was awarded as outstanding African Innovators by the African Innovation Foundation (AIF). 

In the sixth edition of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) organized by AIF, out of the total of over 2500 applications, 10 nominees were selected, and from these, Philippa won the Second Prize. 

The Electronically Controlled Gravity Feed Infusion Set (ECFG) by Philippa, who bagged the Second Prize of US$ 25 000, is designed to accurately administer intravenous (IV) fluids and drugs by controlling the rate of fluid flow based on feedback from a drop sensor.

The ECGF has the potential to save lives by providing accuracy and safety at 8% the cost of a brand new infusion pump.

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The call for ideas for the next Design School is on line!

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The call for ideas for the next design school are on-line! The Design School will be held at Kenyatta University from 23rd to 27 October 2017.

This year the contest is an integral part of the UBORA Eu Project, and is open to students from ABEC members and UBORA consortium. The abstract must be submitted before 8th of April 2017, and must be focused on reducing child mortality. 

For the 24 best-ranked projects travel and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the Design School.

The instruction to submit the abstract can be found here. 

Please, help us in disseminating this initiative printing the flyer and post it on the wall of your department!

ISS Egypt: closing ceremony

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Congrats to all participants! See you in Nairobi for the next Design Competition!

Here the photos of the winning teams:

Most innovative project: Virtual Reality Virtual Rehabilitation (Aya Alnahas , Yohannas Markete and Martha Aikiriza)

 

Project with the highest social impact: Blood Finder (Rehab Rezek Alghnnam, Arafat Mukasa, Maurice Ndwula)

 

Project with the highest economic impact: Pregnanta (Elbetel Taye, Nardos Hailu, Abubakr Mustafa)

Biomedical device design class at AAIT

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A two-weeks intensive Biomedical design class had been held at Addis Ababa Institute of Technogy at Addis Ababa University, in collaboration with University of Pisa, in the second half of October 2016.

Six students, mostly with an electrical enginering background, learned how to design a biomedical device, starting from international standards, and how to rapid prototype their ideas thanks to 3D printers.

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A gallery of the photos is available here.