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Portland State University students’ invention tops the field at national engineering competition

May 18, 2012 /

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Four jeans-wearing Portland State University seniors spent hundreds of hours this year building a computer-aided pill identifier to help doctors and nurses act quickly in emergencies.

The device could save lives, but that’s not why they did it. Earlier this month they competed in a battle of computer-aided inventions at Walt Disney World, facing students from the nation’s top engineering schools.

The four 23-year-olds returned to Portland exhausted but happy, bearing the Cornell Cup USA top prize and a $10,000 check, beating out powerhouses like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/05/portland_state_university_stud_2.html

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