ME BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Professor-In-Charge

PROJECT WORK FACILITIES The students have to undergo a 4 The Department possess state of the week training programme in a art Infrastructure like High End DAQ, hospital or a medical device industry Gait Analysis System, Modeling as an important feature of this Software, Biosignal analysis system programme which helps the students with treadmill, Electrical Safety to take up projects those are highly Analyzers to name a few. relevant to the society, from industry or from the hospitals CAREER OPPORTUNITIES DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING Centre for Medical Electronics, an au- Post graduates of M.E Biomedical - tonomous research centre of Anna Engineering find employment in Gov- ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI 600 025, INDIA University has collaboration with ernment Departments, various various hospitals and industries. Some research Institutes and medical device of them are industries which include:

1. Apollo Hospitals 1. Biomedical Engineers at Hospitals 2. DRDO, Govt of India 2. Sri Ramachandra University 3. Medical device industries 3. DEBEL, Bangalore 4. Diabetic Footcare, Chennai 5. NIMHANS, Bangalore 6. Sankara Nethralaya 7. TANUVAS M.E BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 8. Stanley Medical College Professor-in-charge: Prof.Dr.M.Sasikala

Through the collaboration of Centre for Medical Electronics with the hospitals, the students are encouraged to take up projects in these hospitals and are provided FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT with opportunities to work in Dr. M. Meenakshi, Head of the Department projects specified by the hospitals and Department of Electronics and Communication projects funded by DST, Govt. of India, Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Life Sciences Research Board, Anna University, Chennai-600 025, India. DRDO & CTDT, Anna University. Phone: 044 22358880/22358882 E-mail : [email protected] VISION EVOLUTION OF THE DEPARTMENT FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMME CORE COURSES To be recognized as a benchmark and The Department of Electronics and M.E. in Biomedical Engineering is a full time 1. Human Biology trend setter in Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of four semester course offered by the 2. Diagnostic & Therapeutic Equipment Communication Engineering domain Engineering has the rare distinction of having Department of Electronics and keeping in pace with rapidly changing a separate Medical Electronics Lab from as Communication Engineering, Anna 3. Medical Imaging Systems technologies through effective early as 1975. A Post Graduate degree University, Chennai. Biomedical Engineers 4. Signal Processing and Image pro- partnership with reputed academic specializing in Medical Electronics was require a good scientific and engineering cessing techniques applied to Biological institutions, research organizations, introduced in 1993- the first of its kind among knowledge to bridge the gap between Systems industries and community. the Indian Universities The alumni are engineering and medicine. With this aim, 5. Rehabilitation Engineering employed in Biomedical Electronics industries the curriculum for this programme includes 6. HealthCare, Hospital and Equipment

and hospitals. M.E. Biomedical Engineering is principles and recent trends in physiological Management 7. Health Informatics BACKGROUND: SIGNIFICANCE OF an addition to this department, started in July measurements, diagnostics and ther- BIOMEDICAL ENGIEERING 2006. apeutics followed in hospitals, con- With expertise spanning physiology, cepts of hospital architecture, planning and PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ELECTIVE COURSES biology, healthcare and health informatics, management of equipments, human  Train the students to posses good 1. Biomechanics mechanics, and engineering, biomedical resource management in hospital and scientific and engineering knowledge in engineers can combine their diverse skills hospital waste management. This 2. Hospital Waste Management the field of biomedical engineering. to create solutions for continuing world programme ensures that the students are 3. Quality Assurance and Safety in  To understand the principles and recent wide health issues, helping to change how well trained in the above skills. Hospitals patients are treated and lowering the cost trends in physiological measurements, diagnosis and therapy procedures 4. Biomaterials of care. followed in hospitals. The course consists of Lectures, Tutorials, With technology advancing and the 5. Brain Computer Interface  To introduce the concepts of hospital Practice sessions, Workshops and Hands-on demand for cutting-edge medical 6. Medical Ethics and Standards architecture, planning and organization. training experiences for the betterment of equipment and devices expanding,  To impart knowledge on the students. 7. Telehealth Technology biomedical engineering, has emerged as a management of equipment, finance, hu- 8. Tissue Engineering rapidly growing field. From 2014 to 2024, man resources and waste related to hos- employment for biomedical engineers is RESEARCH AREAS 9. Physiological Systems Modelling pital. and Simulation projected to grow a staggering 23 percent,  Ability to practical engineering in Some of the research fields to which the growing more than three times faster than biological, medical and healthcare system students of this programme are exposed to other careers. related fields and excel as biomedical are :

professionals in hospitals. 1. Development of low cost rehabilitation devices 2. Medical Informatics & Standards 3. Rehabilitation Engineering 4. Bio MEMS 5. Tissue Engineering 6. Development of Biomaterials