“HOD SPEAK”

Bio Medical field develops the problem solving skills in the area of healthcare. It is highly interdisciplinary field having close connections with

many other engineering and medical fields.

Laboratories are upgraded by several Biomedical Instruments. We are

expecting to see excellent performance in in-house Project Exhibition

“Tantravihar” and other state level project competitions.

Biomedical Engineering Department has taken a successful lead in the

removal of Biology subject for FE (BIOM) admission. This will be helpful

for Biomedical aspirants.

“All the Best for the coming semester “.

Inside this

Issue

Faculty Profile -

Prof. Priyanka Shrivastava

Prof. Neelam Punjabi

Technology Update–

Robotic Check-Ups

‘Silent Scan’ Technology for

MRI’s

Technology Highlight

Invited Talk on “Application

Development”

Know an Alumnus - Sudipta

Nandi

Events organized in the Depart-

ment-

Invited Talk on “Application

Development” by Industry Insti-

tute Interaction Committee

“Workshop on Arduino, Matlab

Interfacing and Labview

Quiz on Electronics

Student Speak

Event Updates

Student Spotlight

Placement updates

Pamtrons (Mandar .D, Gayatri.J)

Thyrocare (Vinay.K, Raghav.N)

Zeus Learning (Sneha.S)

Nipro (Vipul.C, Priya .S)

DTC Innovatives (Shreyas.J)

We congratulate these stu-

dents on this fantastic

achievement.

Prof. Swapna Jaywant

Head of Department Biomedical Engineering

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

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MEDITRONICS Department of Biomedical Engineering

01 JULY

2015

VOLUME

VI

ISSUE 4

Industrial Visit to Thyrocare Technologies

The Department of Biomedical Engineering had organized an industrial visit to Thyrocare Technologies

Limited for S.E. Biomedical students on 25th and 26th of March, 2015. The company is known for being

India’s first fully automated diagnostic laboratory focusing on providing quality reports at affordable costs

to laboratories and hospitals in India and other countries.

The quality of the laboratories has been assured very high since it was one of the primary laboratories to

obtain the ISO 9001:2008, NABL and is CAP.

The S.E. Biomedical engineering students of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology were taken in two

batches of 40 students each. One batch of students visited the laboratory on 25-03-2015 and the other

on 26-03-2015 which was accompanied by Prof. Smriti Viswanath and Prof. Preeti Mistry respectively.

The timings of the visit were 2.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. on both the days. The schedule consisted of an intro-

duction to the company along with the corporate videos by Ms. Pranali Bhosale, information about the

healthcare industry and its verticals by Dr. Sandhya and a laboratory tour of the automated instruments.

The aim of the visit was to give an overview to the students about the existing research laboratory facili-

ties for Biomedical.

The highlight was the visit to the state-of-the art fully automated diagnostic laboratory which used bar-coded techniques to distinguish among the blood samples to be tested with the requirement of minimum workforce. The viewing of the components of the instruments of Siemens, Roche and Abott for enhanc-ing the process of automation was a very new and memorable to all the students.

Thyrocare Technologies were very hospitable by offering tea and eatables for all the participants of the visit. The impressive visit concluded after the laboratory tour leaving a very enlightening and enjoyable experience in the student’s minds.

Visit to Thyrocare Technologies, Navi Mumbai.

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BIOM i

Dr. Gajanan Nagare

Head of Department

Name: Prof. Priyanka Shrivastava

Designation: Lecturer

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Qualification: M.E. ( EXTC )

Teaching Experience : 5 years

Areas of Interest: Signals & Systems,

Logic Circuit, ENAS, Control Sys-

tem., ADCD

Faculty Profile Robotic Check-Ups

A pillar of health reform is improving access to

the best health care for more people. Technolo-

gy is a cost-effective and increasingly potent

means to connect clinics in the vast and medi-

cally underserved rural regions of the United

States with big city medical centers and their

specialists.

Telemedicine is well established as a tool for

triage and assessment in emergencies, But

new medical robotsgo one step further—they

can now patrol hospital hallways on more rou-

tine rounds, checking on patients in different

rooms and managing their individual charts and

vital signs without direct human intervention.

The RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot pro-

duced jointly by iRobot Corp. and InTouch

Health is the first such autonomous navigation

remote-presence robot to receive FDA clear-

ance for hospital use.

The device is a mobile cart with a two-way video screen and medical monitoring equipment, pro-

grammed to maneuver through the busy halls of a hospital. .

The Telemedicine System from InTouch

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

― Paulo Coelho

GE Healthcare introduces ‘Silent Scan’ Technology for

MRI’S

GE Healthcare introduces ‘Silent Scan’ Tech-nology for MRI’S GE Healthcare has intro-duced Silent Scan, a technology designed to address excessive acoustic noise generated during an MR scan.

Conventional MR scanners can generate noise in excess of 110 decibels levels, roughly equivalent to rock concerts. GE’s exclusive

Silent Scan technology is reportedly designed to reduce MR scanner noise to near ambient sound levels and thus can improve a patient’s MR exam experience.

“Silent Scan is a huge breakthrough for the MR industry and for patients around the world,” said Dr Richard Hausmann, President and CEO, GE Healthcare MR. “Excessive acoustic noise is a major cause of patient discomfort during MR scans and GE is addressing that with Silent Scan, a new MR advanced application and a major innovation in the healthcare industry.

GE is very serious about Humanizing MR and making its MR systems patient-friendly, safe, and with-out compromise,” he added. Noise is one of the major complaints from patients who undergo a MRI exam.

Historically, medical manufacturers have addressed the noise issue by muffling it using a combination of acoustic dampening material or performance degradation to reduce the noise level. Two years ago, GE engineers initiated their quest to reduce noise during an MRI scan.

BIOM ii

Name: Prof. Neelam Punjabi

Designation: Lecturer

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Qualification: M.E (Instrumentation)

Teaching Experience : 5 years

Areas of Interest: PADC, EICS, IMS,

HM

‘Silent Scan’ Technology for MRI’S

Invited Talk on “Application Development”

The main objective of the invited talk held at VIT on 5th February 2015 was to expose the students to the current trends and advancements in science and technology applicable in today's industrial scenario especially with ref-erence to application development. The talk “Application Development” was conducted in M202. The guest Mr. Neehar Venugopal who is Project Manager at OML Entertainment caught the students attention throughout the session. The talk started by welcoming of the guest by Asst. Prof Bindu Sadanandan. Mr. Neehar Venugopal gave an insight of the growing importance of technologies of the future like Javascript, CSS and Python. Building applications with more emphasis on open source technologies was stressed for industry perspective.

Students should know the “Thought behind the Process” i.e ask yourself the reasons why the curriculum pre-scribed is important and obtain answers on the go was the motto of the session. He suggested Learning the tools of the future, JavaScript, Python and CSS in order to be hired easily by top companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon and build applications to upload on Github.com as Github profile is relevant to recruit programmers. Security and Privacy: WikiLeaks controversy.

ARM processors that focus on usage of less power and develop application for ARM than x86. Mr. Neehar Venu-gopal also mentioned the need to be true to your resume, owning up to work ethics, setting goals for building small applications and that knowledge should not be static. The session concluded with vote of thanks by INFT HOD Associate Prof. Ajitkumar Khachane. The session was mainly coordinated by Assistant Prof. Suvarna Udg-

Hands on Workshop on “Arduino, Matlab Interfacing and

Labview “

This activity was to give the junior biomedical engineers like those in third year and second year, an overview

about the latest hardware and software tools which they could work with to implement their final year project. The

advance hardware tools covered were the Arduino and Rasberry Pie, whereas the software covered was Matlab

and Labview. With the help of these tools the students can explore out their creativity and technological skills to

make wonderful projects in their final year.. The speakers were : Raghav N., Trupti G., Dinisha K. on Interfacing

Arduino, Matlab and Labview; Sanika S., Shruti A., on Rasberry Pi, Hemendra W., Vipul B., Bhavesh D. on Lab-

view and Mayur D., Vinay K. Darshan M. on Matlab. .There were 40 students who were present for the seminar.

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

Know an Alumnus

Name of Alumnus: Sudipta

Nandi

Batch: 2007 - 2011.

Where are you doing cur-

rently?

I'm currently working as a

Technical Lead in IGATE

Global Solutions.

How has VIT helped you?

VIT has helped me hone my

people skills in a lot of ways

(be it public speaking, team

interactions, presentations,

organizing and managing

events, etc). I now find these

of great importance when deal-

ing with different situations in

corporate life.

What advice would you give

to all the juniors?

Well, While choosing a career,

It's important that you like/love

what you do. Cause your work

would be a very big part of

your life, something you would

be stuck doing for almost more

than half your life. So you bet-

ter be happy and content! :) All

the best for future....!

BIOM iii

“Workshop on Arduino, Matlab Interfacing and Labview

Invited talk on “application Development”

Quiz on Electronics:

Q1) _____________________ is an example of primary active transport mechanism.

A) Sodium potassium pump B) Sodium calcium pump

C) Sodium phosphates pump D) Calcium potassium pump

Q2) The minimum number of flip-flops required to construct a mod-75 counter is

A) 5 B) 6

C) 7 D) 8

Q3) The software used to drive microprocessor-based systems is called:

A) assembly language B) firmware

C) machine language code D) BASIC interpreter instructions

Q4) The commutative law of Boolean addition states that A + B = A × B.

A) True B) False

Upcoming Events

Hospital Visit at KEM

About: A Hospital Visit is been

organized at KEM hospital in the

month of August. The purpose of

the visit is to give students demon-

stration of anatomy and physiolo-

gy practical's.

Organizer: VIT

Where: KEM Hospital

When: 3rd week of August, 2015

Student Speak

As a famous quote states ‘Ambition is Innate, but the journey needs

insight’, here in my third year at VIT, I completely patronize this

thought. The passion to become a successful Biomedical Engineer

was innate, but the VIT campus triggered the correct insight to ap-

proach my goals in a seamless yet diligent manner.

Right since its inception, VIT has grown by leaps and bounds by tak-

ing up many unconventional endeavors for its students. With its elite

architectural design, the campus truly brings the corporate feel to the

engineering campus. VIT grooms us right from the first year, for the

corporate job market, we all are headed for.

With its excellent teaching faculty, VIT has always brought out the

best in its students. With its association with a large number of highly

ranked international universities ,VIT has indeed set a high benchmark

for colleges across the city. Specifically , VIT has been one of the only

six colleges in Mumbai to have integrated the Biomedical Engineering course, that too so extensively.

Being at Vidyalankar has propelled my journey to becoming a successful Biomedical Engineer. I shall defi-

nitely cherish every moment spent at VIT, all my life. VIT has truly been the “Wind beneath my Wings”, as

I continue to fly towards my goals, sky high.

Workshop on Rasberry Pi

About: Workshop on Rasberry

Pi is organized by BMSA com-

mittee. The workshop is orga-

nized for TE & BE students to

impart them knowledge about

software and its various tools &

functions.

Organizer: VIT

Where: VIT

When: August 2015

International Conference on Electrical,

Electronics & Communication Engineering

(ICEECE)

The aim objective of ICEECE is to present the latest

research and results of scientists related to Electrical,

Electronics & Electronics & Communication Engi-

neering . The conference will be held at Pune on

July 5th, 2015. .

This conference provides opportunities for the differ-

ent areas delegates to exchange new ideas and

application experiences face to face, to establish

business or research relations and to find global

partners for future collaboration.

Website: http://iraj.in/Conference/2015/Pune/ICEECE/

IRAJ-International Conference on Recent Innovation in Science Engineering and

Technology (ICRISET-2015)

The conference will be held at Pune on August 16th, 2015. The aim objective of ICRISET is to present the latest research and results of scientists related to Science Engineering and Technology topics.

This conference provides opportunities for the differ-ent areas delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

Website:

http://iraj.in/Conference/2015/Pune/ICRISET/

Go The Distance

Hospital Visit at Rehabilita-

tion center

About: A Hospital Visit is been

organized at Rehabilitation center

in the month of August. The pur-

pose of the visit is to give students

demonstration of Biomechanics

and prosthesis and orthotics.

Organizer: VIT

Where: Rehabilitation center

When: 1st week of August, 2015 Editorial Team

Prof. Komal Lawand and Team

Shital Rathod