{"68770":{"#nid":"68770","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Place First in International E-Waste Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering students from the Georgia Institute of\nTechnology placed first in the International E-Waste Design\nCompetition\u0027s E-Waste Reuse category for their project, CardioReach. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team made an electrocardiograph, a device used to detect and diagnose heart abnormalities, from e-waste components. The team acquired smart phones through donation programs, using the cell phone hardware for processing and\ntransmission, while other components are used for signal input and isolation. The technology of CardioReach is in its early\nstage development, but the team expects a functional prototype to be made by as\nearly as August.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECardiovascular diseases are one of the greatest risks to\nhuman health. Although the technologies that detect and treat these diseases\nexist, the devices are not available to the vast number of developing\ncountries, which is why the Georgia Tech team took on the project.\u0026nbsp;The team is working on the price adjustment for CardioReach, so the device will be less expensive and still competitive than the other similar devices popular in Brazil, Russia, China and India.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege students and recent graduates from around the world participated\nin the e-waste competition, held in May at the University of Illinois at\nUrbana-Champaign. Global issues such as electronic waste or e-waste generated by\ncomputers, TVs, cameras, printers and cell phones are growing every day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competition included two categories: E-Waste Prevention\nand E-Waste Reuse. The competition challenged students to create solutions to prevent electronic waste or recycle it into new items, with the goal of motivating students to come up with an idea or\nservice that could help current and future generations become more responsible.\nAlso, the competition pushed participants to create new ways that current\ne-waste can be productive and useful. A total of 29 teams submitted entries, 12\nin the reuse category and 17 in the prevention category. Three prizes were\nawarded in each category with three honorable mention awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Georgia Tech Communications \u0026amp; Marketing Student Media Member Ayesha Patel.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering students from the Georgia\nInstitute of Technology placed first in the International E-Waste\nDesign Competition\u0027s E-Waste Reuse Category for their project,\nCardioReach.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biomedical engineering students placed first in the International E-Waste Design Competition."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-07-11 15:32:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68810":{"id":"68810","type":"image","title":"International E-Waste Design Competition","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894599","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:19","alt":"International E-Waste Design Competition","file":{"fid":"192661","name":"screen_shot_2011-07-13_at_1.58.59_pm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2011-07-13_at_1.58.59_pm_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2011-07-13_at_1.58.59_pm_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":41041,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2011-07-13_at_1.58.59_pm_0.png?itok=4tYDKufo"}}},"media_ids":["68810"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SEIatISTC#p\/a\/412E243A67E58DE3\/0\/FGcGpmLdZdY","title":"CardioReach video"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ewaste.illinois.edu\/","title":"International E-Waste Design Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13642","name":"College of Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; student competition; e-waste"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}