Projects in Bioengineering

Work Tasks- General

  1. Design equipment and devices, such as artificial internal organs, replacements for body parts, and machines for diagnosing medical problems.
  2. This can entail designing code for software on complex instruments, some degree of CAD modeling, applying biochemistry knowledge to the design of drug therapies, or applying physics and math to the design of rehabilitative excersize equipment and other physical devices.

  3. Collaborate with manufacturing staff on the safety and effectiveness of biomedical equipment
  4. Shown in video in Daily Tasks- on-site, one may take apart, or simply update some piece of software, in a piece of equipment that sees common use in a medical lab in order to assess, troubleshoot, or repair it.

  5. Develop statistical models or simulations using statistical or modeling software.
  6. Application of biostats in research of biomedical equipment. Will analyze frequency, risk, and survival measures in a population or set of events, and applying statistics procedures such as sampling a population, generating and interpereting regression models of a dataset, and conducting point estimations.

Equipment one may work with

  1. Cell Counters / Hematology Analyzers
  2. A piece of measuring equipment that sees frequent use in hematology labs. Used to count and identify blood cells for a CBC of a sample with high speed. 3-part differential counters and 5-part differential counters exist, each seperating out different sets of blood components.

  3. Cardiac Pacemakers
  4. A battery-operated device that helps the heart beat at a regular rhythm in patients with some cardiac issue. Traditionally, connected to the heart via two leads(small wires), with electrodes at the end that detect abnormal heartbeats so the pacemaker can return the heart to its normal rhythm.

  5. CT Scanners
  6. A computerized x-ray imaging procedure, in which a narrow beam of x-rays is aimed and quickly rotated around a patient, the signals from which are proccessed into cross-section images that are stacked together digitally afterward. This method is used in diagnosing conditions such as cancers, hemmhorages, and other life-threatening conditions. There are also many cases in which other forms of imaging, like MRI's and ultrasounds, are preferred since they do not use radiation.

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