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“Oh God this is so cool! Do we really have to stick to our budget?!”
By Jenny Griffiths Scenarios are a highlight of our new biomedical engineering programme. In a scenario, all lectures stop and students spend the whole week working on a group project where they solve...
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Clinical engineering visit to Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
By Nishat Ahmed and Bindia Venugopal On Wednesday the 11th of November, we were up at the crack of dawn, pumped and ready to go to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. After missing...
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Pebble in the Pond
By Alan Cottenden Congratulations to the victorious Biomedical Engineering team who managed to transport their pebble the length of the assault course they had designed and built – involving a...
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Students visit the UCLP Centre for Neurorehabilitation Symposium
By Ashkan Pakzad and Samuel Gunning The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering generously funded two students to attend a Neurorehabilitation Symposium organised by UCL Partners. The...
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Writing a research grant in radiotherapy
By Adam Gibson, Konstantin Lozhkin and Gary Royle We have a long-standing module on “treatment with ionising radiation“. Ten years ago, one of us, Konstantin Lozhkin, completed UCL’s teaching course...
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Regaining Control
By Rebecca Yerworth Just before Christmas, the second year Biomedical Engineering students spent a week in the lab designing and building a device to replace a computer mouse for a hypothetical client...
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Smartphone app for detecting pulse rate
By Terence Leung Our 1st year Biomedical Engineering students had very little computer programming experience when they began their first scenario week on Monday, 8th February. So to them, developing a...
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By Adam Gibson and Rebecca Yerworth We’re keen to incorporate different methods of assessment into the biomedical engineering programme. This makes the process more interesting and engaging for staff...
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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...
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Pitching 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...
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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...
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Thinking 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...
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How 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...
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A 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...
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Functional 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...
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Investigating 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...
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A 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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