Four students from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering took on the challenge of using engineering to try to save lives in Ecuador and other countries, and their efforts have been nationally recognized.

A student team from Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering will participate in the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition in April. The same team brought home $15K for their second place finish at Purdue's 30th Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition.

A team of Weldon School senior design students won first place at Purdue’s Spark Challenge in December 2016. The team presented their project, “StrideSmart,” a smart assistive cane attachment for the geriatric population to help monitor patient walking patterns and potentially prevent falls for users. The device would notify users of irregular walking patterns in real-time through a companion smartphone application.

At every Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Exposition, a "Best Senior Design Project" is chosen via a popular vote. Here is a list of the winning projects from 2013 to 2016.

A team of Weldon School senior design students who created and prototyped an economically feasible method for diagnosing tuberculosis in small children won first prize in the 2016 NIH NIBIB/VentureWell Design by Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) competition.

HemoTherm, led by biomedical engineering seniors Tori Clift and Stephanie Eichman and Sahil Sanghani, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, won the $20,000 top prize in the Black Division for their device to treat hypothermia.