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Students Win CIMIT Prize
A team of graduate students led by Ming Jack Po PhD’11 Biomedical Engineering has won a $25,000 engineering prize for developing a therapeutic computer game for children with autism.
Po’s team shares third place with a group from University of California, Berkeley in the CIMIT Prize competition, which recognizes student research that uses novel technology to address major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in primary health care.
Student Profiles
Name: Maritza Johnson
Department: Ph.D. Computer Science
Hometown: Imperial Beach, CA
Maritza Johnson began college as a math major when she was an undergraduate at the University of San Diego. She soon found her true interests lay elsewhere.
Name: Lisandro Quiñones
Department: M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lisandro Quiñones asked an engineering professor a question not long ago, and the answer changed the course of his life.
Name: Jonathan Kyle
Department: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Jonathan Kyle discovered his knack for engineering as a young child, when his parents bought him a toy roller coaster set – unassembled in a box, of course.
“It took me months to construct,” says Kyle.