Portland State University students' invention tops the field at national engineering competition
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.
"We drank a lot of Coke," Hoa Nguyen said of their months of long nights.
The four were not just any students, but among two dozen Intel scholarship students from Vietnam at PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science.
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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.
"We drank a lot of Coke," Hoa Nguyen said of their months of long nights.
The four were not just any students, but among two dozen Intel scholarship students from Vietnam at PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science.
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