Designs extremely practical and find use in day-to-day life of people
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, and the biomedical engineeringstudents of Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering for Women have shown how true the idiom is. The students as part of their final-year project have developed twelve prototypes that can aid in healthcare. The students have developed the concept from scratch with the help of the faculty and have created working models of their innovative ideas. All the designs are extremely practical and find use in day-to-day life of people not only undergoing medical treatment but in diagnosis and the lives of the disabled as well.
Here s another example of technological excellence for a social cause- a smartphone for visual impaired persons and that too invented by an Indian.
It is no more just taking calls and answering them but whole lot of functions including the one that enable the blinds to read and send the texts based on Braille system developed long time back. But its digital version is something that can revolutionize this pattern.
The device developed by Sumit Dagar whose company located in IIM Ahmedabad campus has a touch screen which can elevate and depress the contents allowing such persons to read and send texts.
Biofusion is a national level inter-collegiate competition aiming to provide a platform for exploring innovative and creative ideas. It encourages students towards a great career in the Biomedical Engineering and allied fields.
NO. IIITM-K/0057/2013 19th March 2013
Junior Research Fellow position in MR Image Computing /Signal Processing
Applications are invited for JRF posts (1) for the DST funded project on “Signal Processing approaches for time-constrained Magnetic Resonance (MR)”. The project targets the development of novel reconstruction methodologies to enhance the quality of partially acquired MR images in terms of the contrast-noise ratio, accuracy and precision of estimated parameters from raw MR data.
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