Jeanne Delhez, young ULiège graduate, winner of the FABI 2024 Super Prize
Jeanne Delhez, a civil engineering graduate in biomedical engineering from ULiège's School of Engineering, has just been awarded the FABI 2024 Super Prize. The prize was awarded for the presentation of her final year thesis on the novel use of the PFEM (Particle Finite Element Method) for the numerical modeling of blood flows and their interactions with vessel walls.
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he Fédération Royale des Associations Belges d'Ingénieurs - FABI (Royal Federation of Belgian Engineering Associations) brings together most of the associations of civil engineers, agricultural engineers and bioengineers in French-speaking Belgium. The federation acts as a spokesperson for the engineering profession in dealings with academic, economic and political bodies, at regional, federal and international level.
Each year, via the various alumni associations it brings together, FABI awards a prize to the best final-year works in each of the corresponding engineering schools and faculties.
On November 27, the winners from these faculties were invited to the Fondation Universitaire to compete for the FABI 2024 Super Prize. Their mission was to present and popularize the work they had done using the Pecha Kucha method, an oral presentation synchronized with the projection of twenty slides every twenty seconds. The exercise demonstrated that engineers not only master technology, but also know how to communicate and share their passion.
Jeanne Delhez from Liège, who holds a master's degree in civil engineering in biomedical engineering from the ULiège Faculty of Applied Sciences, proved to be the most convincing. She was awarded the FABI 2024 Super Prize for the best thesis. Her TFE entitled - Application of the PFEM to the study of blood flows and their interactions with artery walls - focused on the novel use of the PFEM (Particle Finite Element Method) for the numerical modeling of blood flows and their interactions with vessel walls. In her final year thesis, Jeanne Delhez was able to study the growth and risk of rupture of aneurysms, as well as the problems associated with the opening and closing of the aortic valve. This digital approach opens up even more prospects for collaboration between doctors and engineers in the development of personalized medicine.
