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Raid Alqorashi, a senior mechanical engineering student, shows his group’s device at the symposium.
Electrical and computer engineering seniors Adrienne Duirden and Laura Garcia present their project, a voice controlled elevator, to the judges.
S.N.App is a project developed by a team of seniors from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Dell’s Vice Chairman of Operations and President of Client Solutions Jeff Clarke, a graduate of The University of Texas at San Antonio, was the keynote speaker at the event.
and several in-kind business resources. “It feels great that our team won the CITE competition,” said Joseph Barrios, senior mechanical engineering student. “There was a lot of hard work that was put into this project and to be rewarded for it is even better. And the collaboration with the business team was great. We respected each other and each other’s ideas. Being optimistic goes a long way.” “Mentoring this group was a fantastic experience,” remarked San Antonio medical device consultant Mark Standeford, who served as Mediflow’s business mentor for the competition. “They identified a good opportunity, structured a good business plan around that opportunity, and even if they hadn’t won first place they would have a winning commercial product.”
College of Engineering’s Innovations |
ore than 40 senior design teams competed for The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering departmental awards at the 2014 Tech Symposium held on April 29, 2014 at the UTSA H-E-B University Center ballroom on the Main Campus. Ten teams participated in the Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE) 100k competition held during the symposium. The Tech Symposium showcases innovative student projects and provides a public venue where UTSA students present advances achieved in their senior design projects. The ten engineering teams chosen for the CITE 100k Competition are partnered with business students to develop a business plan to market their project. Team Mediflow was crowned the winner at the CITE $100k Competition with its prototype sleep apnea device and business plan to market the technology. UTSA competitors Velox Medical and Vitalassure placed second and third respectively in the business planning competition. The Mediflow team developed a commercially viable business plan for a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) device that is smaller, more mobile, and aims to be more comfortable than other CPAP devices currently on the market. It integrates the blower into the facial mask itself and the power supply attaches to the body, eliminating the need for a hose and anchored power supply. Mediflow includes undergraduate engineering majors Joseph Barrios, Eluid Gutierrez, Aaron Mosqueda and Maxim Perkins and undergraduate business majors Nancy Perdicho, Spencer Reynolds and Kaleigh Simms. The Mediflow team won $2,000 cash
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