Three Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute students under faculty member Jeffrey A. Weiss were selected as finalists in the student paper competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference, and a fourth finalist is a recently defended Ph.D. graduate under affiliate faculty member Lucas Timmins.

The four biomedical engineering students were selected based on the quality of their two-page extended abstracts. For the Ph.D.-level competition, reviewers chose 36 finalists from a pool of over 200. At the undergraduate level, they tapped 23 finalists from over 100 submissions. Weiss was especially pleased to report that all three of his students who entered the competition were named finalists.

Congratulations to the finalists, their advisors, and their collaborators:

Luke Hudson, Ph.D. student
Evaluation of a Simplified Modeling Approach to Predict Strain in the Cartilage and Labrum of the Hip with Application to Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome
Luke T. Hudson, Lindsay L. Schuring, Brooklyn L. Vargas, Andrew E. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Weiss

Farhan Muhib, Ph.D. student
Advancing Healing Assessments of Femoral Fractures Through a Subject-Specific Finite Element Approach
Farhan Muhib, Kylie E. Williams, Robert E. Guldberg, Jeffrey A. Weiss

Sylvia Pack, undergraduate student
The Effect of Lung Tumor Outgrowth on Strain Distributions in the Nearby Alveolar Walls
Sylvia M. Pack, Michael R. Herron, Steven A. Labelle, Jeffrey A. Weiss

Caleb Berggren, Ph.D. graduate (recently defended; advised by Timmins)
Examination of the Focal Association Between 3d Plaque Stress and Coronary Artery Disease Progression in the Clinical Setting
Caleb Berggren, Yasmine Abuelhija, David Molony, Habib Samady, Lucas Timmins

The Summer Bioengineering Conference, known as SBC, is an annual meeting where high-impact science is delivered in a student-friendly environment. It took place June 22–25 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.

Benner image, from left: Caleb Berggren, Sylvia Pack, Farhan Muhib, and Luke Hudson.