{"620837":{"#nid":"620837","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tube Team Takes Top BME Capstone Honors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA trio of undergraduates in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory took the department\u0026rsquo;s top Capstone Design Award while a team from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering took the top overall prize in Tuesday night\u0026rsquo;s Spring Expo at McCamish Pavilion,\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWinning the BME prize, and $1,000 was Tube Team, a trio of young women who developed a solution to organize IV catheter tubes to increase patient and medical staff safety during ICU transport. The winning students are \u003Cstrong\u003EEmily Dunford\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EArielle Margulies\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ESarah Nixon\u003C\/strong\u003E. They were among 34 teams from the Coulter Department competing among the 236 teams of undergraduate students from 11 different schools at departments at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut taking the top overall prize was a team of young mechanical engineers, Smart Soil, who developed an indoor, user-friendly composting device using worms to produce nutrient rich compost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more, including a list of all the Georgia Tech Capstone winners, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/2019_Spring_Capstone\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"ME team wins overall project award as 236 teams from 11 different schools and programs compete in spring event"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EME team wins overall project award as 236 teams from 11 different schools and programs compete in spring event\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ME team wins overall project award as 236 teams from 11 different schools and programs compete in spring event"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-04-24 11:23:14","changed_gmt":"2019-04-24 17:45:14","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620836":{"id":"620836","type":"image","title":"Tube Team","body":null,"created":"1556104220","gmt_created":"2019-04-24 11:10:20","changed":"1556115524","gmt_changed":"2019-04-24 14:18:44","alt":"Tube Team takes center stage to accept their BME Capstone award. Left to right are Emily Dunford, Arielle Margulies, Sarah Nixon, and Director of BME Capstone, James Rains.","file":{"fid":"236443","name":"TubeTeam-Spring2019CapstoneBMEwinners-sm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TubeTeam-Spring2019CapstoneBMEwinners-sm.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TubeTeam-Spring2019CapstoneBMEwinners-sm.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1597878,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TubeTeam-Spring2019CapstoneBMEwinners-sm.jpg?itok=tNu0tsAM"}}},"media_ids":["620836"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"9835","name":"capstone design"},{"id":"12652","name":"capstone"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}