3 IE grad students win in poster competition

Photo of Kang-Yu Hsu
Kang-Yu Hsu won 2nd place (Photos/Purdue College of Health & Human Sciences)
Photo of Jackie Cha
Jackie Cha took 3rd place
Photo of Michelle Jahn
Michelle Jahn won 2nd place
Three IE grad students presented winning posters in the recent “Health and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture and Policy” graduate student competition.

Over 120 abstracts were submitted to the event, which took place March 1 in the Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom.

Kang-Yu Hsu (5th-year PhD candidate, Yih lab) won 2nd place in the Prevention and Wellness category for his poster, "Prediction of Intravenous Medication Use Error after Concentration Change: A Copula-based Classification Model". In this study, the proposed methodology focuses on identifying the medication use errors due to programming the smart pump with old behavior during the IV medication concentration changing in the hospital.

Jackie Cha (2nd-year PhD student, Yu lab) won 3rd place in a general category for her poster, "A Ruler to Your Brain: Measuring Workload Through Brain Activity Signals in Simulated Robotic Surgery Tasks". The poster showed that robotic-assisted surgery is an emerging technology and that using electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain electrical activity can assess surgeon workload.

Michelle Jahn (5th-year PhD candidate, Caldwell lab) won 2nd place in the Obesity and Related Diseases category for her poster, "Usability Evaluation of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Software". This poster reviewed work from her internship experience as a human factors engineer with Roche Diabetes Care. During her internship, Jahn was responsible for managing a usability validation study in Germany, where her team tested a new software system for Roche's Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) platform. The results of the usability testing helped determine recommended changes to make the software easier to use for both people with diabetes and their healthcare providers.

The poster session was sponsored by the Purdue Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Science, Veterinary Medicine, the Polytechnic Institute, and Purdue University Libraries. Its aim is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in health and disease research.