BMES 2000
Biomedical Engineering Society
Annual Meeting
October 12-14, 2000
Seattle, Washington USA
Note to students about shared housing:
Some students have inquired about sharing a hotel room during
the BMES meeting. If you would be interested in receiving the name and e-mail
of another student who is interested in this option, please e-mail the Conference
Secretariat (bmes@engr.washington.edu).
Please let us know whether you already have a room reserved and would be
interested in sharing the cost with a roommate.
Student Awards
- The Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award is offered for the
first time this year by BMES to stimulate research careers in biomedical
engineering and includes presentation of the Rita Schaffer Memorial Lecture.
- Student Awards: Five Graduate Student Research Awards and up to five
Undergraduate Student Research & Design Awards are presented. BMES
also recognizes outstanding Student Chapters with Meritorious Achievement
and Commendable Achievement Awards. All awards are presented on October
13 at the BMES Business Meeting.
- Student Travel Awards: Travel support is available to graduate students
with financial need who will be presenting their research as described
in accepted abstracts. Undergraduate students in biomedical engineering
who have strong academic records and interest in pursuing graduate study.
Student Activities
- The Student Chapter Development Meeting will be a special session,
held on Thursday, October 12, from 2:002:30 p.m. It is open to officers
and faculty advisors of BMES Student Chapters.
- The Biomedical Engineering honorary society, Alpha Eta Mu Beta, Annual
Meeting will be held from noon2:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13. It
is open to officers and faculty advisors of AEMB Chapters.
- Student Lunch with BMES Board of Directors is open to all students
attending the conference.
Announcing a New Award
- Biomedical Engineering Society
BME International Award
The BMES BME International Award is to be awarded each year by the Biomedical
Engineering Society to an individual in a university, industry, or government
to recognize his/her contributions to the advancement of biomedical engineering.
The award is intended to honor the worldwide effort of promoting biomedical
engineering as a profession with the aim to improve people's health. This
new award is made possible by a gift from the Lee family.
The awardee is expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the BMES Annual
Fall Meeting and to publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of
Biomedical Engineering. A very important purpose of the lecture is to
review critically a filed of biomedical engineering and to offer a vision
on the challenges and opportunities in biomedical engineering.
The award will consist of a plaque, the registration fee for the meeting,
and $3,200 from which the awardee pays travel expenses.
Conditions:
- It is the expressed desire of the Lee family that this award be used
to recognize international biomedical engineers and industrial biomedical
engineers. It is expected that at least 25% of the awardees will come from
the biomedical industry. The worldwide distribution will be about 25% from
Asia, 25% from Europe, and 50% from North, Central, and South America,
Africa and Australia.
- The contributions of the awardee do not need to precede the award date
by any specific period of time.
- The Awards Committee will screen the nominations, critically evaluate
the nominee's records, and submit a rank ordered list of the top three
nominees to the BMES President. The President, in consultation with Long
Range Planning Committee, will select the awardee.
Please submit a letter describing the nominee's service to biomedical
engineering by August 21, 2000 to:
BME International Award
Awards Chair, BMES, 8401 Corporate Drive, Suite 110, Landover, MD 20785-2224
301-459-1999 fax 301-459-2444
www.bmes.org
For information on these awards, please contact Pat Horner, BMES, 301-459-1999;
pat.horner@bmes.org.
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