Biomedical Engineering Blog

Biomedical Engineering Magazines

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:51:43 +0000

I was trying to find Biomedical Engineering magazines to subscribe too. Frankly most of them were too expensive for a college student to subscribe too. I might try to get my adviser to subscribe to them and put them in the office.

Here are some of the biomedical engineering related magazines that i found:

Bioscience Technology

Actually I only found that one. I will try to look more and find other good magazines.

Universities That Offer Biomedical Engineering

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:00:19 +0000

Following is a limited number of universities that offer biomedical engineering as an undergraduate major. This list does not include ALL the universities (only the more well-known ones) and is not in any particular order.

University	BME Department	Public/Private
MIT	BME	Private
Standford	BME	Private
Georgia Tech	BME	Public
Purdue University	BME	Public
Virginia Tech	BME	Public
University of Virginia	BME	Public
Johns Hopkins	BME	Private
Berkley	BME	Public
Urbana Champaign	BME	Public
University of Michigan	BME	Public
UT Austin	BME	Public
Texas A&M	BME	Public

Here are some more resources:

Gummel Plot

admin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:45:27 +0000

I was studying for my semiconductor exam and part of was on Gummel Plots. I searched the web to find some good resources and articles to read. Here are the most useful websites/page I found:

Biomedical Engineering Research Branches

admin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:00:09 +0000

Here are the most common Biomedical Engineering research interests in colleges and universities:

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Biomedical Imaging and Optics
Bionanotechnology and Biosensors
Cardiovascular Physiology & Engineering
Computational and Systems Biology
Healthcare Systems Engineering
Neural Engineering
Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Implants

Following are some of the better universities that offer Biomedical Engineering (BME) masters and PHD degrees:

Birck Nanotechnology Center

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:02:33 +0000

Birck Nanotechnology Center is the latest addition to Purdue Universities biomedical engineering buildings. The building was completed in 2005 with a cost of $58 million dollars.

The highlight of the building is the 25,000 square ft. cleanroom.

Birck Nanotechnology center allows researchers from other companies, universities, and national labs to use the facility.

Here is a list of Birck’s key capabilities.

Most of the research at the center is done by Purdue professors and their PHD students. You can find a list of Purdue’s Biomedical Engineering faculty and their research interest here.

Ultrasonic Horn Design

admin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:58:34 +0000

I was working on a project where I needed to design a horn for an ultrasonic machine to concentrate the ultrasonic power in a smaller area. The machine is not being used to welding (typical use of ultrasonic guns), instead it is being used to produce small bubbles in a small tube.

Following is what I found about this design.

There are three different horn designs that can be implemented:

1- Conventional design

2- Folded horn

3- Dog-bone horn

Folded and Dog-bone designs seemed too complicated and are meant for more precise ultrasonic horns (used mostly for welding).

Here are two designs for the conventional horns. Typically the length of the horn should be half of the wavelength of used frequency.

(This is from a catalog of horns used mostly in welding)

(This is a more simple design that works better for my purposes)

Now, I just have to have this made at the mechanical shop and see how effective it will be.

Here are some other useful webpages:

Plastic Welding Horns

Novel Horn Designs (Very good paper)