Last week they won the second place award (and $2,500) at NCIIA's BMEidea biomedical engineering competition in New York. A couple of days later, the University of Cincinnati's SurgiSIL team picked up third place and another $5,000 at the ASME Innovation Showcase, held in Palm Desert, CA.

The winners were:

1st place ($10,000) - Rice University's PRIME team

2nd place ($7,000) - MIT's Solar ORC team

3rd place ($5,000) - University of Cincinnati's SurgiSIL team.