The CECT Undergraduate Fellows Program provides engineering undergraduates with an opportunity to do intensive research in cardiovascular biomedical engineering in the Center for Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies (CECT).

The CECT is under the direction of Olaf von Ramm, Ph.D., Thomas Lord Professor of Biomedical Engineering and CECT Director, and was founded at Duke in 1987.

Academic credit is given through BME 193, 194, and 195, Projects in Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering. CECT Fellows complete these three courses plus have the opportunity to do summer research. Fellows are selected midway in their junior year. They may use their CECT-sponsored research as the basis for graduation with distinction at the end of their senior year. CECT Undergraduate Fellows' achievements include publications, presentations at national conferences and patents.

In the many years of this program, the CECT's many Undergraduate Fellow alumni have gone on to distinguished careers in academia, industry and medicine.

The CECT Fellows Program is under the direction of Martha Absher, Assistant Dean for Education and Outreach Programs for the Pratt School of Engineering.

2006-2007 CECT Fellow

• Kelsey Boitnott, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Ultrasound Doppler Detection
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, CECT

2005-2006 CECT Fellows

• John Cooper Moore, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: High Frequency, Real-time 3D Ultrasound
  Adviser: Olaf T. von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Directior, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Seth Weinberg, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: High Frequency 3D Real Time Ultrasound Imaging
  Adviser: Olaf T. von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Directior, Department of Biomedical Engineering

2004-2005 CECT Fellow

• Sameer M. Deshmukh, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Real Time 3D Ultrasound with Blood Flow
  Adviser: Olaf T. von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor of Biomedical Engineering and CECT Director

2003-2004 CECT Fellow

• Sumit Shah, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Real Time 3D Imaging with Blood Flow
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering

2002-2003 CECT Fellow

• Joseph Baltz, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Real Time 3D Imaging with Blood Flow
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering

2001-2002 CECT Fellows

• Ara Karamanian, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Real Time 3D Imaging with Blood Flow
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Sarah Park, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Developing and Testing Strategies for Low Energy Atrial Fibrillation
  Adviser: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
• Stanton Stebbins, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Using the Material Properties of Transducers to Delay Ultrasound Signals
  Adviser: Ollaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering

2000-2001 CECT Fellows

• Ashley Aston, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Engineering Skeletal Myoblasts to Minimize Immune Response During Allotransplantation
  Adviser: Doris Taylor, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
• Ashish Bhimini, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Rabbit Ventricles: From MRI to Computational Models
  Adviser: Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
• Alvin Ko, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Therapeutic Modification of a Atherosclerotic Tissue Model by FEL
  Adviser: Brett Hooper, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
• Hsien Lee, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Assessing Left Ventricular Function Using Pacing and 3-D Ultrasound
  Adviser: Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
• Jennifer Lee, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: Equilibrium Size of a Swollen Micelle
  Adviser: David Needham, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Gianmarco Pinton, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: 3D Tissue Velocity Estimation Using Volumetric Ultrasound
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Chris Pua, Biomedical Engineering Major
  Project: The Effect of Element Interactions on Beam Response
  Adviser: Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor and CECT Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering