Living Aid – working with Remap
By Rebecca Yerworth During the last week of February the second year biomedical engineers were introduced to ‘Remap’, a national charity working through local groups of skilled volunteers to help...
View ArticlePitching UCL Biomedical Engineering Inventions To A Panel Of Dragons
By Jenny Griffiths We made an unusual homework demand on our second year Biomedical Engineers over the Christmas vacation: they had to watch TV. The students were asked to use UCL’s subscription to Box...
View ArticlePeer assessment in group work
By Pilar Garcia Souto UCL Engineering trains students to use engineering knowledge within extended group practical activities to better prepare them for their careers after graduation. However, despite...
View ArticleThinking clinical at the Learning Hospital
By Julian Henty Clinical Engineering knowledge and skills were put to the test recently during a visit to UCLH’s Learning Hospital. Second year Biomedical Engineering students were given the chance to...
View ArticleHow do you demonstrate gamma imaging practically to students, without a...
By Rebecca Yerworth This was the challenge set to 3rd year project student Nicola Wolf. The outcome? Gamma Anna, and a paper in Physics Education. The interactive demonstration that Nicola developed is...
View ArticleHow to make the assessment of group work better?
by Lucia Albelda Gimeno and Isobel Chester The Individual Peer Assessed Contribution (IPAC) Consortium aims to develop a tool for the fair and effective peer assessment of individual contribution in...
View ArticleA closer look into Mummies and Phantoms!
By Bindia Venugopal In this x-ray fluorescence imaging research project, we imaged and analysed both mummy cartonnage and phantoms using a portable handheld x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) machine, borrowed...
View ArticleFunctional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference
By Nick Wood, MEng student I was luckily able to attend the fNIRS UK conference free of charge on the 7/09/17. For those of you who are not familiar with fNIRS, functional near infrared spectroscopy...
View ArticleInvestigating neurovascular coupling in infants with seizures using EEG and DOT
By Aman Ganglani Over the summer I was lucky enough to undertake an eight-week research project in the Biomedical Optics Research Lab (BORL) with the research group focusing on diffuse optical...
View ArticleA breath of fresh air
By Rebecca Yerworth How do you let steam out of you kitchen if the only window is behind the kitchen sink and, as an octogenarian you can no longer climb on the work-surface to reach the handle? We...
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