Biomedical Engineering New Graduate Student Overview

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Hawaii.

Hawaii how are you?

How are you? I was on before an I saw you and you couldn't see me or hear me and then.

Yeah, it's been doing this weird thing where it's like not picking up the two people at the same time, and I'm like you have to keep refreshing and then all of a sudden it works so.

Hello OK OK I was like I thought something was wrong with Maine.

Yeah, it's weird.

OK.

Yeah, I like refresh the browser and then I don't even know. So OK, I don't know if you and even saw the message from before, but um, oh OK. She just emailed back so.

Should I? OK, so I'll just tell her quick to.

Yep.

Can you just go into the sleep event right this later on?

Control.

And then will it block from here to the broadcast her right away?

She'll have to hit broad, doesn't do it right away.

Like I just did it 5 seconds ago.

Yeah.

I know me too and I'm like I've done this a million times. I think she needs to hit broadcast, but.

OK.

Alright, I'll tell her.

Oops.

How did your undergrad 1 go?

It went pretty good.

It's.

I realized that later I didn't unclick my broadcast video when Albert was during his presentation.

OK.

Hello.

So what happened was it was just my black screen and I thought that I thought that was just like what it looks like to me. I didn't think that it was to everybody else. But then when I saw a message from Shannon on Webex later and she was like Unbroadcast your video. I'm like Oh crap so but it was fine otherwise I don't nothing. There was like a few glitches like our student we couldn't hear him at first and then.

Yeah.

But everything else seemed fine. We doctor tries he, he got cut out for a minute and then it came back.

The chat was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just think this servers are so overloaded with like webinars that like any any platform is just been crazy lately.

Yeah, it's it makes so sense. I mean, every that's what everybody is doing all day, you know?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, it makes sense, but otherwise it was fine. The chat was like crazy so I'm glad that we actually had an advisor from 410. Come in because there's no way I would have been able to like moderate that myself. It just a little bit insane.

Yeah, they get crazy.

Yeah, I know I was like uncle or so and then for tomorrow's thing with Yoon. Uhm, so I'm going to be doing I think is she an Ice Age group?

It looks like she's here you and if you press broadcast video at the top. Oh there she is.

Yes.

Hey, how are you?

Moon.

Good, how are you?

So OK, so I I have to log in through this link, right?

Uh-huh

Alright 'cause I registered for the web and R and then I receive an email and then I can also access from that part so but I can go from here and then so tomorrow is your way startup like 8:30 or we start around like a 50 ish since we have already finished the test run.

Yeah, I think if we we don't need to if we kind of just run through everything quickly. Right now I don't think that we need to do anything before 8:50 tomorrow. That would be. I don't know that I can be on at 8:30 tomorrow with my love.

Yeah.

Yep.

But yeah, so I'll probably pop on 8:50 as long as we're OK here today, then yeah. So what I was gonna tell John was that. So the presentation that we have the first part of it, I I'll probably be presenting, right, you know and then and then afterwards, like when we get to the faculty slides towards the end, when will will do those? So what? What exactly do we have to do for that then? Tomorrow we have to.

Yeah.

Uh-huh

I I don't know because I saw originally I thought the web and R was only like one hour and then you are going to give like a 15 minutes presentation and then I will have probably another 10 minutes ish. So I 1015 minutes for me and then I can quickly go through those. I only selected 7 faculty members. Slides will depend on how much time I have. I can go like a very quick overview because I just want to give the student.

Hello.

A little bit taste of the research, and then if I have a lot of time I can go a little bit like indeed Hills and then it tells you how much time we have.

The time is up to you. I always schedule it for an hour and a half just because the students like to chat. So we usually just leave it open without anyone presenting towards the end. But I would say if Joel presents for 1015 minutes and you take 1015 minutes, that's totally fine. And then answer some questions you don't have to go the full hour.

OK.

OK.

Yeah, so yeah I I have a summary slide indicating we have total for different research tracks and then I just give one or two examples for each research track and then that's it. So yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think you'll really enjoy that they like to hear about the research.

Yeah, OK, that's good. Yeah it this was. I'll do. I'm gonna double check our our slide my part and make sure that it's not like 2 detailed and involved. I mean I I don't know are how are people doing that like usually just look pretty pretty basic intro John. Like from the other Department.

Yeah.

Yeah it depends. I mean CBA went like really in depth and went through like all the different tracks in the different options in the courses in like explained everything. So it totally depends on what you guys want to present to them. I think the students right now are looking for as much information as possible. So if you want to give him detailed, go for it.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

And then we can always email them the slides at the end of it. So like they can go back and reference them too, 'cause they're gonna ask for that, um.

OK.

But I can be on the chat an answer questions while you guys are presenting so you don't have to pay attention to that. And then any questions about like Cove it or anything like that. If you want me to pop on an answer them about like this semester, I'm happy to do that too.

OK yeah that would be good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I, I think like they, they probably will ask like what happen if they cannot come in the fall semester? That would be a very common question.

It's definitely, I know we got that in the undergrad one last week too for sure so.

Yeah, it's a big question. I mean obviously right now, but with no answer.

Nothing.

Right?

Oh

OK.

Yeah so.

Kay?

So, uhm, I'm gonna say so. So when I do the the my portion of the presentation, like when I first come on, should I have control slides clicked on and then?

Yeah, you wanna click control slide so you can move through them.

OK, would you do the same thing at the same time or would you do it?

Remain.

She'll do it when you're done, so if you get to like if you have a certain slide where you want to switch over you can. You'll unclick it and then she can click control slides and should be able to slide or go through them.

OK, so when I'm done I'll just unclick and she can click on.

Uh-huh

Right, OK, OK and then.

Yeah, and then I guess if there's anything in the chat that you're not able to answer John while while I'm presenting or even wants me to answer, then I'll pop. I'll do, you know, I can do that when I'm done.

OK.

Yeah, I can write down like any like questions and ask him towards the end. Then about if there's anything specific that they're all asking that I can answer with curriculum based or anything. And then you can answer them so they can all hear it.

OK.

Alright, that seems good to me. Um, I did see an email from one of our faculties that she wants to edit her slide. So I think what do I do? what I have to send you the updated PowerPoint. I'm sorry it's kind of what.

Open.

You can know you can always go into the settings button all the way on the right hand side and there will be an option where you can delete. Like all existing slides and then just upload a new set of them at anytime. Or if tomorrow morning you just want to send me the whole new deck, all just put him up there.

OK.

Yeah, actually actually I revised the radar slides a little bit because when I prepared the slides for the faculty research part, I kind of like approach. The photo of each faculty like on the upper right corner. Actually, that photo is taken from.

Go home.

Uh-huh

Our website, so every faculty members photo. It's in the same style, so I probably will like adjust to her slides a little bit. You make sure the format is same as other slides and then I will send that you probably later today around 3:30 ish. So after my class.

OK.

And then so.

Actually, she just made a very small change. Change her last name.

No.

So yeah.

Watt

OK.

So why don't you just email it to me, Joey when you're done and I'll just make sure it's in like the PDF format and upload it for you.

OK.

OK, that would be helpful. Yeah then that sounds good to me so.

OK, um yeah, I don't know and then do we want to hide ourselves when like when we're not presenting that what we want to do right now.

OK.

Yeah, totally up to you guys. I mean I'll goaf. Obviously for most of it and then just pop back in at the end with questions. But if you want to, you know go off and come back on when you're speaking. It's it's up to you.

OK.

Yeah, so even if you wanted to hide yourself, I think you just have to do that. Click the video when the mute button, right? Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah, like this, right?

OK.

Yeah, so OK alright this makes sense. I think we're good.

Goodnight

Great sounds good, yeah, and if there's any faculty that want to join in, like through the broadcast, I just have to know so I can change their. Uhm, access to so they have event access.

They're all, I think all of your faculty are already in slate. It's literally just clicking a button, so just let me know.

OK, Yeah was that let you know or no maybe.

OK so yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

OK.

No, I just emailed radar because she's the only faculty member asked about this webinar. Others, uh, haven't shown any my interest in this, so I didn't ask others. I, I think we should be good and then.

OK.

OK.

Then

OK, so this is the only thing that the ones that you guys normally do in India, right? Sort of or.

Yeah.

Kind of yeah we did like a major like accepted student reception like back in the beginning of March on line with like Rajon and everyone. But these are like giving more specific information that we can't really cover so.

OK, gotcha.

Yeah.

Who?

Some.

Laura.

Good.

Hey.

OK.

Right, so then I'll jump on tomorrow at like 850 or so and make sure we're all good, and then we'll go from there.

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Yeah, OK, so I'll see you tomorrow.

No.

And you just just close your browser to exit it. Nice and easy.

OK.

OK bye guys.

Hawaii.

Hawaii.

I can't hear you.

How about now?

Oh yeah.

I knew there myself.

I know I did that in my day too. Why is nobody responding to me?

How are you?

Good, how are you?

I'm good you want there.

OK, see how many of them will join us?

Yeah.

Ha ha.

I was looking at the registered students and I think I thought I saw like a Mostafa. John student was in there too, so he's going to. He'll probably get this. Oh, and Emily too.

Uh-huh

They'll get the same basic information that they already got it though.

You know the other one that we did.

So.

Yeah.

Yeah.

OK, so I'm not sure like yeah thanks. Nobody is here. I think I just want to briefly talk about Michael wedding.

Oh yeah, OK.

Yes.

Yeah.

OK.

So I asked him to do the like a final grade calculation based on what he has so far. So for example he has completed like one or two homeworks, one midterm, one project and then he can use that as what he has for now and then for the for the future works like the final exam. So I asked him to do like 80% accuracy estimation then.

OK.

Yeah.

I'm not sure he's a. He's calculation is a little bit weird for the homework part for the project and also for the final exam. Probably would be OK and then he's like at the borderline for B.

Wow wow OK.

Yeah.

Oh

OK.

I also talked with shut down a. He's a human is because Michael did really bad in mid term so 400 points. He only got 49 and then so when he estimated his final rate I ask him to use 80% so he used a before his final exam and then based on shutdown he's on. The midterm was easy and then final exam will be more difficult.

Nick

OK.

So 80% accuracy would be really tough for him, so if he cannot get 80%, he cannot get a B.

And then so he cannot get a S.

He he he.

Right?

So what are you thinking?

Yeah.

We can ask him to still go with a 2F and then because even if he gets on C, right? So we still allow graduate student have see as long as their average GPA is be right.

Uh-huh

Yeah yeah, as as long as they have a 3.0 I can has been some language or maybe I. I hope it's not so on the website, but something in the past that we were saying.

Mom.

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Wired coursework you have to get to be in, but I don't really understand why that was ever a thing and I don't know where that where that went, but I don't. I don't know that that even matters because what the only thing that we ever really look at is to make sure that students have a 30 at the end of every semester, you know so.

Yeah.

What?

OK.

Yeah.

So yeah, if he choose asenu, it's highly possible he's going to get on you, so I really don't know. Like you mean fail or.

I I don't know.

They take it so this.

Yeah, you have to. I think that means you have to retake it so and.

We wouldn't count it towards his degree 'cause he didn't satisfy that requirement, you know.

OK so I'm I'm just I'm not. I'm just confused for for example for the SU grade you means unsatisfied he has to retake. What if he got a for example AB minus on this course?

Hey.

Bye.

Then then it will be minus looks better than you or or it doesn't matter.

Yeah, I think so because he's passing it or he's satisfying the requirement. I think with a you it's.

I mean that one of the final checks that I do urge students graduated to make sure they have no you grades or incomplete grades or blank grade so.

If he is a B minus on his transcript to me, I'm like that's fine as long as he has a 3.0 um.

And then, but if he hasn't you, then he he won't be able to graduate 'cause he didn't satisfy it unless he took it again.

OK.

Yeah, yeah so.

Yeah.

Oh

I think better if he does the letter grade. If he has a.

Hum.

I mean, I think maybe he's concerned that it's going to impact his.

His GPA.

It's cheap, you as well as you doesn't count toward his GPA, so if he ends up with S, so that will be the ideal situation He gets in the *** and then but as.

He doesn't get any like a point from this course, so he has to take another one. So total 10 lecture course with the grades right and then.

Why would you? He would not get what time, what time is it? I just wanna double OK?

There are four more minutes left, so as has no GPA.

Yeah.

Right so but we have to use total 10 lecture based courses to calculate the average GPA right.

Ah.

I don't know that we actually are looking at the number, of course, is to get the GPA. Uhm, I mean, he could get a 30 based on other courses with letter grades.

And still have the requirement for the.

Degree.

Hey.

You

No, I I got the email on the emails As for Undergrads because I'm take I'm teaching undergrads, but for graduate students it's the same thing. So the difference between undergrad and graduate student will be undergrad determines whether they want to go with us or you and the instructors. We don't need to worry about anything and then for graduate student instructors have to agree whether the student will get as or you in the SNL. You, no matter is undergrad or grad.

Yeah.

And then they don't count toward their GPA, so you don't get any, just like informal cores or sisters based course. So as and you and then.

Hi Jenn.

Hey Jenn.

Who are you?

Hawaii I just wanted to pop in. I'm here, so I'll answer questions in the chat and then at the end I'll I'll come back on if there's anything.

OK mate.

OK.

Yeah.

Should I try to put control slides right?

Yes, and I uploaded the new ones this morning, so you should be all set.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Sure, thank you.

And.

Yeah, well I don't.

Yeah, I will be a tricky thing. I think we need to talk with Albert and then well.

Want to Wonder Woman?

I think I got it from another student about that class too, so and I told the student kind of the same thing that you know, if you feel like you're.

Uh-huh

His email was more earning her. I don't know. Um, it was less involved in terms of what Michael is concerned with, but um, so I told her to 1st reevaluate talk with the instructor and you know, go from there.

But so I wonder if the I don't know this course, it maybe it's something with this course. I hope that there's no other students that are confirmed to but.

Right? Yeah? And then so I talked with.

Told me

Yeah.

Goodnight

Is different from one Michael Calculator, so I really don't know like which one is, uh, who is correct? Because it's never it's not going to be possible for him to get a S, which means B based on Michaels calculation. If he ends up with 80% accuracy and then he can get a B so.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So I don't know, and then the calculation I I I'm also confused about his calculation, especially for the homework part and then he also mentioned for his mid term and then he can get more points.

I don't know anyway.

I know.

It seems it seems confusing and I was briefly looking at them last night. The emails and stuff, but I'm liking something just like that. Add up here.

No.

Yeah, maybe we need to talk to Albert about it, you see?

Yeah, raise so.

OK.

A lot of.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not sure what he really wants. If he wants in a, That's understandable. If he doesn't want to lower his overall GPA.

Right?

And I yeah, so I actually I want to ask him why he he wants a *** or you and then.

So that would be.

Yeah, maybe it might have to do with this GPA, thanks.

No.

Like wants a higher GPA and he won't get that within ask you, but that doesn't make sense 'cause he wants. Yes, you never mind no no.

Right, yeah?

Only have we have knew we have students coming in.

Yep.

Try mute my uh, OK?

You don't have to.

Yeah.

Free.

Give it up.

Do you think?

Yeah, just give him like a few more minutes.

No.

You wanna get started in there, do you think?

Yeah, I think we can get started.

Because.

Open.

So welcome everybody that's on here right now. Will will just do a quick introduction about who I am and doctor you know who is also here. So thank you for joining us. I hope that this presentation is helpful to you to understand a little bit more about the graduate program.

That will be starting in the fall. If you have questions, as Jennifer Gamble has said in the chat, please feel free to ask those in the chat and we will do the best that we can to answer those. So my name is Joe Aldonia Siam, the academic coordinator for biomedical engineering. I help all of our students, undergrad and graduate students. Basically from point a admission through to your graduation. So I help with of all different sorts of things as you're going through the program in terms of.

Making sure that your meeting retire your requirements for the degree, and I've just always available for any healthy that you might need so hand it over to you and to do a quick.

So uh, hi everybody. So my name is, you know an I must social professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering an I'm also the director of graduate studies. So if you have any questions regarding for example course selection advisors election, any questions regarding research. So I'm also happy to answer those questions.

Ask throughout the whole like your graduate studies so. So basically I work with Joelle closely and then we are working together to help you guys to make to succeed your graduate studies right.

So if you're welcome.

It's all good.

I'm gonna be a little bit about the program on each on the Masters and PhD portion so.

OK, first thing we have here. Um just a few Department quick backs in 2010. That's when our Department started in 2012 is when I graduate program began, so some may say that we're still fairly new work, slowly transitioning out of that phase.

Another fact, I'm sure many of you know at this point is that we are actually combined across the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the school of engineering. So that makes us a little bit unique in terms of biomedical engineering programs across the country. We have 14 core faculty members in the Biomedical Engineering Department. We have 25 affiliated faculty, So what that means is faculty members at the University of Buffalo that their main Department is somewhere else at the University.

But they are associated or affiliated with biomedical engineering, so we do have graduate students that are advised by some of our affiliated faculty as well. So they are very involved in the Department as well as our obviously core faculty at the current moment, we have 30 six PhD students. We have 71 Masters students and we actually have. This was three, but we do have four staff members now.

Our Department consists of our director of administration who is kind of like an assistant to the chair and myself, academic coordinator. We have a technician in the Department and then we also have a research administrator, so those are staff members of the Department.

This is something I always like to tell our graduate students about is our graduate Student Association. This is our student club for Biomedical Engineering Grad students. They are very involved. A lot of our students are involved in it. They do a lot of different events for their members, such as Karere building industry speakers. They do different industry tours.

And they also do fun things. Social events you know outside of class time and things that you know they need to let loose on a little bit, there is potential funding for conference attendance as well. So I encourage all of you to check out their website. Their website is listed there.

You know, as I said, they are very involved with things outside the Department to kind of get acclimated to the biomedical engineering world around the Buffalo, NY area and at the University as well.

Think so, um, some of the questions.

That we get one of the main questions that we get. Excuse me is about faculty advisement in the graduate program, so just kind of want to run through quickly what each each program looks like for in terms of advisements. So for PhD students.

Once you're admitted to the program, some of you may have an advisor established already on in terms of you know you have communicated with that particular faculty member during your application process. Maybe head virtual interviews, things like that if you don't already have a faculty advisor in the PhD program, that's nothing to be concerned with. It just means that you'll be encouraged to me with at least three biomedical engineering faculty over the first semester in the program, so.

During the fall 2020 semester, you would be arranging meetings with at least three biomedical engineering faculty members or affiliated faculty from the Department to kind of.

Figure out what your research areas interests are. Do they align with this particular faculty member? If they do, and that's kind of how the process works, you'll secure that advisor at that point. So by the end of your first semester, you'll know who your advisor is.

In terms of the Masters program, here we your initial advisor for all Masters students coming in as Doctor Doctor Wu who's with us here today are graduate director.

And so you know, of course, I assist her too as well with in terms of Advisement and figuring out course selection. Things like that.

Yes, Ray.

So I just click on control slides right? OK, so I will just briefly talk about the research areas that currently in our Department, so we roughly divided our research areas into four different fields. So the first one is about medical devices, sensors, instrumentation and diagnostics. And then the second one is molecular cellular and tissue engineering, and then the third one is medical image in an analysis.

And then the last one is computational engineering and modeling, so you so evenly divided this research areas into this for different directions, but actually a lot of our faculty members are working across different fields, so I will share with you today some examples and then you can see actually our research is highly multi disciplinary and we have a lot of collaborations within the Department and also.

Across the different Department.

So let me go to the next one.

So this is a. This is the basically the research field for our Department chair, doctor Albert titles and then so his research area feed fits into the first direction. So we choose about medical devices, sensors and also instrumentation diagnostics and then you can see he actually he is working with biosensors, mainly in focus on electronic based sensors.

And then he provided his email address and then if you go to our Department website and then you can also go to his personal research website which is provided there an also our Department website. So you can learn more detailed information about his research. So as you can see on this on this fingers or images is mainly working with electronics. He used electronics.

The building parts and then build up sensors with biomedical focused applications. For example, his bio sensors can be used to sense would healing process or stimulate the wound and then so that the wound will heal faster. And then he's also using developing biosensors for light and, for example, start candy and Reza more vision applications. Also monitoring the infant feeding process.

And he also has a pH sensors.

So he's a research is the great example for the first research direction by medical devices and sensors. So In addition to him, I am another faculty member in the Department, so I also work with small biosensors. So for diagnostics so you can see on the left hand side of my slide. I developped small biochips just like the glucose.

Meters or pregnancy test. So we look at Biomarkers in the blood and then so the main application will be like cancer screening. Early detection treatment response monitoring. An also surveillance. So this type of diagnostics is is called liquid biopsy. So this is another type of small bio devices or sensors for diagnostic application.

So so basically a factor idols and myself we are working in this bio medical devices, sensors failed and then In addition tool the small biosensors. I have another research direction which is shown on the right hand side so you can see I. Actually I also work with Nano Madison, so this is actually the second research direction in our Department which is a molecular cellular and tissue engineering.

So here we have for example different drugs in calculated in the nano carrier system so that we call them nano Madison and then we can put targeting molecules on the surface of these nanoparticles and then on the bottom right corner you can see we actually treat mice with our nanoparticles and then you. So basically I don't know if my mouse is working but basically on the.

On the left column you see three images. At the bottom line we use MRI to identify the tumors in the with the targeting molecules, the nanoparticles accumulate more in the tumor site comparing to the non targeted metal particles. So this is basically this direction fits into this molecular and cellular engineering part.

And then In addition to myself, we also have several other faculty members in the Department working in the same field. So here is, uh, slides from Doctor Jonathan Lobell. He is also developing Nano Therapeutics and then on the top you can see he developped this light trigger drug delivery system and then you see those kind of particle shaped structures and then inside those are the drugs. So when.

When we shed light on this nanoparticles, so the drug inside can be released for cancer treatment. So this is a light trigger drug delivery system. And then at the bottom so that vaccine advent key developed so you can see there are two figures at the bottom on the left hand side is just empty nanoparticles. Now on the right hand side he put like a protein pipes on the surface. So you can see the kind like.

Modrobs surrounding the nanoparticles. So those are the proteins can serve as a vexing. So here's another faculty member in our Department working in the molecular and cellular engineering track.

So for tissue engineering. We also have several faculty members working in this field, so this is a slide from Doctor Raghavan Zhao. He actually has two research directions, so you can see on the left hand side. He is developing small micro tissue models and then this is actually a collaborative project between his lab and my lab, so you can see where developing small micro tissues to mimic.

The human lung and then the device can be prepared in this in so in many like this are a type of structures so we can have this arrays microarrays put in the into the 12 page for study and then you can see the structure of the micro tissues actually mimic our long the Aviola Region of our long. So we are collaborating together to use this micro tissue device too.

If all up like damn, pull new drugs for lung fibrosis. So that is the one research direction in his lab and then the second one is the 3D printing, so I'm not sure if this can be played but.

Joel, do you know because we have a video here?

Oh

I cannot play this will this is a PDF, right?

This is not the the PowerPoint. It's OK, so uh, so basically for the 3D printing he has a very cool video right over here to show you how we can quickly point out. For example, this is a human hand on the right hand side and then on the top you will see a 3D printed lover. So inside that liver you will see kind like the reddish orangish lines.

Those are basically mimics the blood vessel in the long, so that's his another. Like a research direction. So he used 3D printing to generate large human tissue. So in his lab to research directions, both of them involve tissue engineering. One is for small micro size tissue, the other is for large human tissue.

And then so that is tissue engineering. And then we also have a faculty member Doctor Redial Vudal she's working in this. So this is from a different angle from mechanical biology angle. So you can see ** *** designed this flow system so she can grow cells in the flow chamber and then they cells are cardio.

To see your cells, uhm, so this this is a very nice model to study cardiovascular disease so we can generate their front like mechanical forces on top of the cells by changing the flow rate, the shear stress. So in this case we can understand the role of mechanical chemical environment on the molecular basis of the cardiovascular diseases, so specifically she's looking at the endothelium mccannel transduction.

Mitochondria function oxidative stress and also sells survival. All of these different aspects involved in car did cardiovascular diseases, so all of these are belong to. So basically myself. Doctor Lobell after gel and Doctor Alvarado, we all work in the molecular, cellular and tissue engineering direction and then so hopefully you can get some basic idea about this.

Direction, because this is a relatively big direction in our Department. And then we also have another very big Department direction. So which involves medical image analysis.

So here shows you just, uh, several faculty members research, so the first one is doctor jinjos research, and then he has the optical an ultrasonic imagine lab. So the research in his lab is developing new medical imaging techniques through the combination of Light an ultrasound. So the main application for his like imagine system.

Um, involve tensor imaging. Would evaluation, biometrics, Anna brain images. So here he share with you several examples. For example, for the cancer image, and so he has developed a small like optical, an ultrasonic based image and system for breast cancer detection, so you can see in the middle there is a figure, so it mimics a patient line on the badge in the badge.

And then he's a small image and system is bring the breast cancer detection by looking at the blood vessel. Or you can see the there's the image underneath and then showing you the power of the blood vessel on. So which if if there's a tumor form so the blood vessel will be John?

Rated so we can detect the breast cancer by looking at the block by so structure and then on the bottom there is a wood evaluation so you can see here so same thing we're looking at the blah blah. So for the wound healing process, typically when new blah blah so forms and then we will have a very good one healing process.

And then on the right hand side so you can see a palm here on laying on the optical table and then this is more like a biometrics. So just like our fingerprints and then we can use the the patterns on your hand as a biometric tool.

War, uh identification and then bottom is a brain image, and so he's using the same system system to look at the blood vessel in the brain for for brain tumor detection. So basically he developed this optical system and then he used this system for different biomedical application.

And then the next faculty member in our Department is also working in this medical image and field is doctor. See Proni Anita so he research field is mainly in Vascular disease, including cardiovascular disease and stroke so he actually works very closely with clinicians. So he's research is highly patient oriented so on the figures you can see these are the Vascular.

Random he manufactured in his lab. You also using 3D printing technologies and then so this vascular Phantom actually is designed based on a real patient. So after he prepared this vascular device he will do device testing and then he will also develop his own image and software to mimic the flow of the blood in this Phantom.

And then he will perform validation and then based on his experimental results and then he can use that to guide the patient treatment and then so so basically this device will be more for a tool to assist the patient trained treatment planning.

Man, so for his lab, if you are interested in this research and then he listed some skills he desired from the student, for example programming in Labview, Matlab or C++. Also you have to be pretty strong in math and then understand the differential equations. An analytical geometry is if you also know something about white bumper cap design.

Answers simulation and with for example, you're familiar with polymers because he has to use the polymers to 3D print this vascular Phantom. So an if you also need to know a little bit about Neural Networks, so all of these are.

Consider the path for working in his life.

And then so so basically doctor gentian, the doctor, I'll need a slab so both of them are working in medical image and instrumentation and basically image analysis and then the last faculty member at 1:00 AM introduce here is doctor Lastly M and then she is actually working our the last research track. So this is a related with computational.

Hot image and so or a computational engineering or modeling. So in her lab. So she mainly work with MRI based image analysis. So so the methodology is used in her lab involve image reconstruction algorithm, compressed sensing, and the machine learning. So after she developed this algorithm and then we can use this for different applications.

For example, brain image and dynamic cardiac MRI, quantitative muscular skeletal MRI and also super resolution cell image and so in her lab everything is more computational, so you have to be pretty strong in math. And then if you're interested in for example like this coding and you're also interested in math and then her lab would be a very good set.

You know, I, I just have a limited time so I didn't go through all the faculty members in our Department. So here just give you one or two examples for each research directions so we do have this for different research tracks in the Department. So depend on your research interests. You can select like a three or even more faculty members to talk with.

And then, uh, at the end of your first semester, you can select one of them as your faculty divisor for your master or PhD studies.

OK.

OK, so that's the end of my, uh, presentation. So Joey, how give the time to you?

So I'm not sure I'll I'll kind of, you know, hang out here for a little bit, but I don't know if there's any specific questions that anyone has about the program that you know maybe didn't get answered today. Feel free to ask those in the chat, but.

You know this was just kind of give you a basic overview of the Department. Hopefully we answer some of your questions. Maybe got you a little bit excited about starting in the fall. I know I've seen some questions kind of come in about what is to come in the fall. Unfortunately we don't have many answers about that, but.

You know we'll do the absolute best that we can to maintain communication about any changes related to that.

Yeah, so I'm not sure you know. You know. Certainly be on here for the next couple minutes and just kind of see what other questions might come in.

Come out of the three M is just saw this one. Come in at three Ms choices. Is one better than the other? No ones, not better than than another. This really depends on what it is that you're looking to get from your Masters degree, what you plan to do with your future.

Do you wanna expand on that?

Race obituary for the three uh, master choices I I would say like we have probably equal distribution of the students across is 3 different choices and then so it really depends on how you want to move forward. If you want to go to a Graduate School, of course you want to consider like the master project or sisters because these two tracks will give you more.

Practice in research, so especially versus uhm. So master sisters will give you a very nice and also comprehensive training of research starting from for example, literature review. You do the experimental design and data analysis and then eventually you will write a thesis and then publish one paper. So this is a very comprehensive training for a master student if you are.

Not like a very short if research is your future career direction. You are also interested in research and then you can consider the master project because the master project will also give you like a training on the research. But you don't need to publish a paper at the end, but you still need to do, for example, the literature review and also like.

Experimental design data losses because you have to write a project report at the end but you are not required to publish one paper based on your master project and then so differently. Master project lasts about like 1/2 year or two years. So give you enough time to finish your project. So that's but you still get the training. Basically writing scientific writing when you are right.

When you are writing your project report.

So uhm, for if you are not interested in Graduate School and so sorry you are not interested in PhD.

You are not interested in research focus. The career path and then you can consider the Ms course based track so that one you can take the course and then you can also use the informal courses to do internships. Or you can use the informal cores together. Just a very I will say some feeling about research because for the informal course you can select one or faculty members lab and then working in the lab.

Or a semester, so that will also give you some like experience doing research. It will now be that intensive. So so totally depend on how you want to you want to move forward with your career and then for this three choices and then you do have the freedom to switch. If you for example initially you select course based and then you go to one faculty members lab and then stay there for one semester and then you feel research is really.

Uh, you are interest and then you want to stay in my lab and then do you so you you do have the UM do have the choice to switch from a master course based master to a project based master or sisters face mask.

Everything is, uh, is possible. I would say you can. You can do the switch.

OK.

Who?

So we had a question kind of come in about the, UM, two questions that. But if we kind of input give your employer so one was about the job opportunities after the Masters program, so I wanted to make sure that that's what you meant in terms of placement, because sometimes students ask about placement for internships. So in terms of job opportunities after the Masters program.

Hum.

I, I mean, I would say that the the more that you were active in terms of you know building connections with the faculty at the Department.

No.

Reaching out and maybe getting an internship in the field. Those are things that are certainly going to help you with job opportunities after you leave the program. I'm not sure that we do want to, maybe.

Anything else in terms of what are your Masters students have done one finishing up the program.

Sure, so so basically in the Department our master students, they have basically many, I would say quite a lot different career path and then majority of them go to industry so they work there and then some of them go to like research based Institute.

For example, one of my master student after he graduated, he went to Roswell park comprehensive Cancer Center and then he worked there as a research scientist. Then I also have other two master students after they graduated. Both of them go to industry and they actually won. Recently I heard from him and he created his job and then he started his own startup company.

So well, so I also have Masters students. After they graduated they actually go to another place is for example due to family reason. I do have one master student. After he graduated he went to Florida and then because he's a fancy was there so he actually started his PhD over there. So we do have different tracks. And then so depend on and I also have. I think it's uh, be SMS combined.

Program students, and then he actually went to. I think it's.

Hey.

It's a professional practice. I think he he actually becomes a nurse. So after after he said the SMS program so. So there are many many different like a career path is and then so even I think like even I think there's one under writing our Department. Actually she ends up with so he actually went to law school.

Lawyer, so let some because you require this, so even is like law school. Some lawyers are. If we're considering like a patent lawyer. If you want to work in the, for example for biotechnologies and then you do require the basic background, so that's that's also a possible career path, so most of them Masters students. Actually, when they go to industry and then like.

I also know one master student from our program. She actually goes to Intel, so it's a little bit far away from our field, but because biomedical engineering sounds like sounds, focus on biomedical, but actually we still. We also have engineering significant part of engineering involved so depend on different faculty members. Research we we. So it's a very Department is highly multidisciplinary so you can also consider.

Do you?

Uh, industry sounds like far away, but actually, uh, it's actually closely related. For example, the students she actually went to Intel because it sounds like Intel is working with computers, but still we also have electronic devices, medical devices and biomedical image and instrumentation involved. So all of this experience will definitely help the students build a career in a kind of like not.

Related, but actually it's a closely related field.

Another doctor rule was, uhm, there in terms of.

Yes.

I'm sorry, I just lost it, uhm?

Type up cities were just talking about job opportunities, benefits of the benefits of having a masters and or PhD degree in the industry fields.

What? What are your thoughts on that?

But

Yep.

So it depends. Depends on, like, uh, it. It also again depends on the career path and also a career plan, right? So? So for the other boundary benefits of Masters degree in industry will be you will see a lot of job openings for master students compared to PhD students, because PhD is considerably higher degree.

And then so, uh, now many people have PhD degrees, so the job openings will also be last fewer compared to the job openings for Masters students. And also for especially for industry they actually. I talked to several colleagues in industry. They prefer having master students because they prefer their their own training. So because you go to the companies and then you have to go through a training one more time and then the company is some companies.

Prefer a doing their own trainings so the Masters will come in and then you know they're up. Refresh compared to PhD students because PhD students already go through five years training in a research lab and then sometimes it's really hard to retrain them. So that's why some in companies they prefer master students. But for PhD students I would say if the career direction or career plan is to do research related.

Definitely a PhD degree is required degree because you really need to go through the research training and then it takes time and then so even you gotta get some training during the master studies, especially if you choose master's thesis track. But the training compared to a PhD degree is not that intensive because for Masters thesis the training, the purpose of the training is too.

Get you familiar with the whole research process, starting from the very beginning. Terrell, you have one paper publish the purpose for PhD training would be we want to train you into an independent scientist so the independency is quite difficult to achieve. So that takes time and then so basically if you are really enjoy research and then you want to become independent scientist.

And then so that requires at least three or four years intensive training because.

Because it's just not that you can do it, and in a very relatively short time so, so that's probably also the reason why a lot of Industry the companies, because sometimes they need a team to work together and then they don't need a lot of people that can do independent work. So if you think you are a team player and then you are very, you are very enjoying the teamwork now of course.

You can consider the master degree and then, but if you think you want to you want do something based on. I would say like for example in academia, each faculty member. So we are like a small like the individual in the Department and then we work on our own research field. So we enjoy this type of independency. So sometimes like we do collaborate with others but we do have our own expertise and in our.

Own research field and then we do have a lot of freedom to do what we want and then we can do independent research. So that will be the major. I would say this will be the major difference between Master and PhD degree and then in terms of your future direction, future career goal and then clear plan, you can decide whether you want to go with the master or PhD and then in our Department sound master students after the first.

Over 2 years they switch to PhD program.

All see.

I think there's a question. There's a one question asking about how difficult is course the courses in our department for a person having a Bachelor degree from a non file medical field?

So, uhm.

I think you should be fine because I've been teaching a biomedical courses for the past six years and I do have students coming from different background. For example, in one year I had one student. He actually has mechanical engineering background with little file medical background. So he actually did very well in my course and I also have student coming from.

Electrical engineering, so he knows very little about bio medical so, but actually, because in the course for the graduate students a lot of course are trying to train you to become an independent researcher and then so for example, for one of my course, the goal is to train the student to do.

Literature review and then to encourage critical thinking. So student work in the gym and then so each team member, they may have their like advantages or expertise. They may also like a compliment each other. So so this I really don't think this will be a challenge for a student coming from a background that is not so bio medical related.

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I'm just laughing.

At you know about uhm.

About I'm sorry.

Um.

If a student were to do the exam option could they get a job as a research scientist or if they were doing the thesis option could they get a job in industry so like in terms of flexibility and then I would say?

Now.

Oh yeah, of course so.

I would say if there if a student is doing a non thesis option and they want to go and be a research scientist in the future we would probably encourage them to do internships or you know really work outside of the classroom as much as they claim as much as they can with faculty an independent study would you say that that's certainly possible for non thesis students to get a job like that.

Yeah, and then.

I'm sorry.

You go.

It's uh.

Oh so it. So basically when you look at the like a Joelle presented earlier, like even for course based master raised. So you do have.

So you have to take 24 credit hours from lecture based courses that you do have six credit hours from. Informal of course is so I do have students talking with me for the full for the six informal credit hours. Actually, the students choose to do internships in companies and then for master's thesis is the same thing. So every student will have the opportunity to do 6 informal edits and then this six informal credit hours can be.

Research in a faculty members lab can also be internship in companies, so all the students in our master program will have the same opportunity.

So have any past students gone to work for? I think I might have skipped a question from someone about BME students going into industry. We did talk about that a little bit. Actually, rule was why students might go into industry a little bit. Sorry, just kind of jumped from one way.

Yeah, so then the uhm, I don't know if there's anything else you wanted to add about that, but if not then maybe will jump to the next one. Have any past students gone to work for medical device or surgical sales and use there be any background for it? I would say definitely.

No, I mean, this is certainly something like you're. You're getting a really great background in terms of understanding biomedical engineering, especially as a master's student, you're getting a very well rounded opportunity to learn about the different areas of biomedical engineering and the Masters program.

So you know, certainly students have gone to, you, know, working with medical devices and sales for sure, 'cause you have to be able to know about it to be able to sell it so.

Yeah, I can give you 1 example is not from so.

So it's, uh, it's not a master student to actually, it's a PhD student, so the PhD student because he's a research project is heavily involved with microscopes and then so he knows microscope so well. And then when he graduated, Nikon has had one opening. So basically he joined Nikon and then becomes a salesperson for that microscope because he just knows.

Everything about that microscope, so that's definitely there are many opportunities there and then, so you never know so soundly. Opportunities are really exciting, so I would say because VM is is a highly like multi disciplinary filled and then a lot of our faculty members. Actually. For example, we work very closely with hospitals and then students may even go to the go to hospitals and then see the patient.

And then so, especially for like like my research direction, one of my research project, we work with clinicians closely and then other faculty members also do the same thing. So so you will get exposed to the cutting edge research and then that definitely will help build a successful career for your future.

Z.

So there's, uh.

I think that's, uh.

Thanks though.

That's basically all the questions, right so?

Give it another movie that has in the last minute questions that you want to throw in, or if you feel like you know you need a little bit more information on a question you did ask. You know. Feel free to let us know.

But yeah.

Advice about what we should be doing now?

Um, so if you are finishing up your undergraduate program.

Right now, I mean, these are the things that you would want to be doing is touching base with the Department you know, figuring out what your next steps are to start the program.

If you have any questions in terms of like how to figure out your course work, a lot of those questions are covered at orientation in the fall.

If you're feeling unsure or nervous about, be me like the BME field. I mean this. Like I said, this was something that would be good for you to attend.

Continue to stay in contact with us, Um.

Hope you have you know concerns about the course work that might be coming up. Perhaps you might want to be refreshing on, you know math or physics that maybe you are nervous about. You know, we certainly recommended that to students in the past. You know, taking this summer to kind of refresh yourself on those things.

But other than that, I mean, you know, I don't know what else to recommend, but I hope that that that's helpful for you.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah, so I'm going to put my email here. Um, if you have any specific questions for me afterwards, feel free to email me. But as Jennifer said, you know we can email the slides you at the end of the presentation, so hopefully.

You know you can refer back to that if you need to.

My email.

Eat.

Anyone else has any other questions?

Hope to see you all in the fall here and stay in contact throughout the number.

Look forward to hearing from you.

I'll hang out for a few minutes in case there's any last minute questions but thank you so much for coming today I hope this.

Helpful for you all.

Yeah.

So if you have any questions, feel free to contact us and then, uh, I will say if you're so, this is my email address and then you can always go to our Department website and then because today I only talked about our like a core faculty members and then we also have many other affiliated faculty members. So if you are interested in working with them just go to the website and then.

Go to their personal research website so you can schedule meetings with them or reach out to them right now.

So where thank you have a regular class in the far right.

Wait?

So you can plan a hat in hand, try to go through those faculty members, research websites, and then see who you are interested in working with and then just the plan ahead ahead of time and then when you are here and then you can schedule meetings with them. Then you can also talk to the students in different research lab and then learn their perspective about different labs because different lab has different culture.

And then you may like the one map better than the other. So so sometimes that culture is also very important.

All right.

But I got here.

Stop into another meeting here but I think the chat stays open.

So no, again, feel free to email us. I hope that you enjoyed this session and hope to see you all in the fall.

Alright, so.

What?

Right?

Thank you bye.

Take care.