Biomedical Engineering | BUET

PEEP-Alert: Developing a Monitor for Positive Pressure Respiration Support
2023-02-15 14:30 - 16:00 UTC | BME Seminar Room,10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET
This talk describes the creation of a flow and pressure monitor to improve safety of positive-pressure respiration support. Reduced rates of intubation can be achieved with greater than 5 Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP). More than 30 PEEP will irreparably damage lungs. Helmet-based noninvasive ventilation has been shown to improve outcomes significantly over cannula, mask therapies, or even early ventilator application. When started early it can reduce the need for ventilators dramatically.
We identified monitoring helmet air-volume and pressure as a way to make the therapy safer and more comfortable for caregivers to administer. Our goal was to show caregivers that air was being safely supplied to a patient. We wanted to alert them of problems concerning adequate respiration flow and make sure the pressure is appropriate in the therapy.
This talk discusses the rapid formation of a company and product in response to COVID19, how it was done cheaply, and how such a complex hardware product could be tested, approved, and brought to patients in under 12 months.

Ted Selker is an entrepreneur and inventor, currently CTO of Alphyco creating a community based considerate social media for advancing women. Ted spent much of the first year of Covid19 working on the helmet based positive pressure respiration therapy and creating FDA approved PEEP-Alert to monitor it. Ted also is CEO of ultrascanguide.com a tomographic ultrasonic limb imaging company. Ted teaches at various universities and is currently publishing in usable, and considerate technologies. An IBM Fellow, his background also includes teaching at universities, publication and supporting companies working on technologies as varied as solar energy, shirt folding, RFID and Mixed Reality.

Ted Selker is CTO of Alphyco.com creating Reflect a considerate communication support tool. Ted is an entrepreneur inventor who also mentors innovation. Ted’s academic positions at RIT and University of Maryland currently focus usable security and voting technology. Ted spent 5 years at at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley as director Research on Accessible voting, Considerate Systems research and in developing the campus’s research mission. Prior to that, Ted spent 10 years as an associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory where he created the Context Aware Computing group, co-directed the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and directed the Industrial Design Intelligence future for product design project. Prior to that, his successes at targeted product creation and enhancement at IBM earned him the role of IBM Fellow.
Ted’s work has birthed successful products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. It has accumulated numerous awards, patents, and papers and has often been featured in the press. Ted was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50, the American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology and the Telluride Tech fest award.

Orientation Program of BME'21!
2022-11-22 14:30 | Room 705,IICT Conference Room,ECE Building,BUET
Welcome BME’21!
We are very excited to formally welcome you to the department! See you at the orientation program on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022 at 2:30 pm.

Job Fair For Biomedical Engineers 2022
2022-08-30 | Medical Imaging Laboratory, Room No.-1005, Department of BME, ECE Building, BUET
Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET is excited to announce that we are hosting our first ever JOB FAIR tomorrow at our department premises! Three reputed companies will participate in this event.
Participating Companies:

JMI Group
Islam Oxygen Limited
Incepta Hygiene & Hospicare Limited

Workshop on Biomaterials based Wet Lab (Full day)
2022-03-25 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
EVENT DESCRIPTION
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), BUET will organize a Full-day Technical workshop on Biomaterials based wet lab.
Overview of the workshop:

Introduction to wet-lab and biomaterials
Lab safety guidelines
Explaining various laboratory techniques
Demonstration of extraction of a biopolymer from natural source
Hands on training

Registration Fee:

Tk. 2,500/- (For students)
Tk. 4000/- (For professionals)

Venue: Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET
Date: 25th (Friday) March 2022: 8:45 AM – 5:00 PM

Certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the workshop
Course Registration:
Mr Azad, Ph: 01763423970/01912335557
Registration Deadline: 15th January, 2022

Technical Workshop on Dialysis Machine (3-days workshop)
2022-01-14 - 2022-01-28 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
EVENT DESCRIPTION
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), BUET will organize a 3-day Technical workshop on Dialysis Machines.
Overview of the workshop:

Basic and working principles of Hemodialysis
Discussion on dialysis circuits and operation
Discussion on maintenance
Understanding the water quality
Hands on training

Registration Fee:

Tk. 8,000/-

Venue: Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET
Date:

Day 1: 14th January (Friday)
Day 2: 21st January (Friday)
Day 3: 28th January (Friday)

Certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the workshop
Course Registration:
Mr Azad, Ph: 01763423970/01912335557
Registration Deadline: 10th January, 2022

Post Graduate Orientation Program
2021-07-21 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hands-on Training on Biomedical Engineering Simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics
2019-12-19 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), BUET is organizing a two-day workshop on “Hands-on Training on Biomedical Engineering Simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics”. The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Jahid Ferdous, Assistant Professor, BME, BUET. Dr. Ferdous completed his PhD from University of South Carolina, USA and has several years of industry and academic experience on medical device design and simulations. He holds multiple publications and patents in his field of research. His research interests include Medical implant design and evaluation, Drug development, Biomechanics.
Eligibility

Any Engineering students, graduates, and professionals.

Course Content

Basics of COMSOL

Geometry development
Model setup
Meshing
Solver settings
Post-Processing

Basics of modeling in biological systems

Fluid Flow
Mass Transfer
Heat Transfer
Biomechanics

Hands-on simulation of several biomedical engineering case studies

Registration Details:

Tk. 4,000.00 (Student), Tk. 8,000.00 (Professional)
Capacity: 15* (*Min 8 participants)
Total Contact Hours: 8
Date: 12-13 April 2019
Registration Deadline: 4/4/2019
Contact details: BME Office, BUET (01763423970)

Seminar on Biomedical Engineering for Prospective Students
2019-11-04 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Department of Biomedical Engineering is organizing a seminar for the prospective undergraduate students of session 2019 who have been selected for admission into BUET. The seminar will be held on Monday, November 4th, 2019 at 2:30 pm at the BME seminar Room, 10th Floor, ECE Building, West Palashi, BUET. You can bring along one guardian to accompany you. To participate please complete the registration form below. Your participation will be confirmed through the phone before the event. Note that the event is arranged exclusively for the students admitted to BUET in the session 2019.
We look forward to seeing you!
For any questions please contact:
Navid Ibtehaj Nizam, Assistant Professor, BME.
Email: navid@bme.buet.ac.bd
Telephone: +(880 2) 55167100 Ext. 6596

Four-Fold Resolution Increase in Single-Fiber Endoscopic Imaging
2018-11-13 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A technical seminar on “Four-Fold Resolution Increase in Single-Fiber Endoscopic Imaging” will be held from 3.00 – 4.00 pm, Tuesday, 13th November 2018 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET, jointly organized by the Department of BME, BUET and IEEE ComSoc BD Chapter. The talk will be presented by Dr. Joseph M. Kahn, Professor, E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA,USA. Dr. Kahn’s main fields of research include Single-Mode Fiber Communications, Spatial Multiplexing and Multi-Mode Fiber Communications, Multi-Mode Fiber Microscopy and Sensing, Free-Space Optical Communications and Multi-Input Multi-Output Radio Communications. Dr. Khan applies principles of photonics, signal processing, communications and information theory to advance the performance of communication or imaging systems.
Joseph M. Kahn received the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. He demonstrated multi-Gbit/s coherent optical fiber transmission systems, setting world records for receiver sensitivity. From 1990-2003, he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at U.C. Berkeley, performing research on optical and wireless communications. Since 2003, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he heads the Optical Communications Group. His current research interests include: fiber-based imaging, spatial multiplexing, rate-adaptive and spectrally efficient modulation and coding methods, coherent detection and associated digital signal processing algorithms, digital compensation of fiber nonlinearity, and free-space systems. Professor Kahn received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. From 1993-2000, he served as a Technical Editor of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. From 2009-2014, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. In 2000, he helped found StrataLight Communications, where he served as Chief Scientist from 2000-2003. StrataLight was acquired by Opnext, Inc. in 2009.

BME Open Day 2018
2018-04-28 - 2022-04-18 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Department of Biomedical Engineering is delighted to announce that the first Biomedical Engineering (BME) Open Day is going to be organized for the students of session 2018 who have been selected for admission into BUET. Come along for an experience that will include project showcase by current students of BME, lab tour and a seminar introducing the department. You can bring along one guardian to accompany you. To participate please complete the registration form below. Your participation will be confirmed through the phone before the event.
We look forward to welcoming you!
For any questions please contact:
Saeedur Rahman, Lecturer, BME.
Email: saeed@bme.buet.ac.bd
Telephone: +(880 2) 55167100 Ext. 6401

Biomedical Engineering Applications to the Study of Gait Control
2018-04-26 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A technical seminar on “Biomedical Engineering Applications to the Study of Gait Control” will be held from 3.00 – 4.00 pm, Thursday, 26th April 2018 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET. The talk will be presented by Dr. Rezaul Begg, Chair, Program in Assistive Technologies Innovation (PATI); Professor of Biomechanics, College of Sport & Exercise Science, Victoria University, Australia. Dr. Begg’s main fields of research include Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning. Dr. Begg focusses on developing new technologies and techniques with applications to human gait pathologies. These techniques have been utilized to minimize balance-loss and falls which can result from tripping or slipping across a range of populations.
Professor Rezaul Begg received his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Aberdeen, UK. He is now Chair of the Program in Assistive Technologies Innovation (PATI) at Victoria University, Australia. He leads a research group in Gait and Intelligent Technologies, comprising 7 PhD students, 4 postdoctoral research fellows and 6 senior research personnel. His research interests include Gait and Balance Biomechanics, Exoskeletons, Machine Learning and Wearable Sensors. He has over 250 research publications and 2 patents, and his research is supported by the principal Australian Government Research funding agencies, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). He has received several awards for academic excellence, including the ICISIP Best paper award, VC’s citation award for excellence in research at Victoria University, the BUET Gold medal and the Chancellor prize.

Solving Orthopaedic Clinical Challenges through Computational Biomechanics and Mechanotransduction Approach
2017-12-20 | Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Room 1014 , 10th Floor, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A technical seminar on “Solving Orthopaedic Clinical Challenges through Computational Biomechanics and Mechanotransduction Approach” was organized at 2 pm, Wednesday, 20th December 2017 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, BUET. The talk was presented by Mr. Tanvir Mustafy, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada. Mr. Mustafy’s field of research is orthopedic biomechanics with a particular interest in Human Spine Modeling and mechanical regulation of growth and development of bone tissues for the orthopedic treatment of progressive musculoskeletal pathologies affecting infants and adolescents. In the seminar, Mr. Mustafy talked about research advancements in the biomechanical modeling of the head-neck-cervical spine. He also discussed bone growth modulation by mechanical loading.
In addition to being a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department of École Polytechnique de Montréal, Mr. Tanvir Mustafy is also working as a researcher in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Sainte-Justine Hospital. He is a member of the Laboratoire De Mécanobiologie Pédiatrique research group at the Polytechnique Montréal. He obtained his M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2013. He received his B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), in 2011.
