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Pakistani students developed promising projects
Monday 1st November 2010
KARACHI: The students of Biomedical Engineering Department of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology developed some remarkable projects with commercial potentials. Students from the 2006-2010 batch developed the projects which included a head-controlled wheelchair, hypo-hyperthermia machine, voice operated wheelchair, and an incubator.
The projects were completed under the supervision of Ijlal Shahrukh Ateeq, Kamran Hameed and Syed M. Omair.
Voice Controlled Wheel Chair
The voice controlling electronic wheel chair was developed by Faria, Faizan, Shakil, Shamira Shafique, Syed Taha and Umair.
The electronic wheel chair can be controlled by voice, infrared or manually by a joystick. However, voice control is the main purpose to build the electronic wheel chair and HM2007, voice controlling integrated circuit is used to voice related operations.
The motor in the chair moves with respect to the input and bandwidth of the recognised voice. Infrared communications can also be used for patients suffering from paralysis through an infrared transmitter.
Hypo Hyperthermia Machine
This is also an important project of Sir Syed University developed by Taimoor, Hira, Arsala, Rimsha, Saad and Moiz.
The machine does a very important job for many patients it retains body temperature before, during and after an operation.
Temperature of a healthy body is 98.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average and extreme variations in the body temperature are called Hypo/Hyperthermia, which call for urgent attention.
Human interface and control systems are the two major parts of the project. Human interface consists of a blanket to retain the body temperature of a patient while control system controls the heating and cooling process.
Hot or cold distilled water flows between pathways in a blanket like pad and the control system controls the temperature. Thus, providing instant and accurate temperature to patients in either condition.
Hyper/Hypothermia machines are generally present in operation theatres especially during brain and heart surgeries. Its modified shapes are being used in hydrotherapy and heating beds.
Head movement controlled wheelchair
Husnain, Atif, Shuja, Zaid, Faisal and Ali Khan developed a head movement controlled wheel chair. Handicapped people and patients with spinal cord injuries can move easily and freely with the help of this chair.
A REDD sensors based head gear registers the head gestures and moves in left, right or forward directions in effective manner. Then, the control circuit processes the signals and passes them on to the relay circuit which flips the polarity of the motor to move it in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. The final output comes as smooth movement of the wheel chair in desired direction.
Infant Incubator
Rabiya Rehman, Sundus Shaikh, Nida Fatima and Samin Azam developed a modified infant incubator.
Premature infants need stable temperature of 37 degrees Celsius. A baby incubator serves this purpose and additionally humidifies the air and can add extra oxygen. Premature babies have underdeveloped nervous systems and lack energy to regulate their own temperature. Thus incubators play an important role for this purpose.
Students of Sir Syed University also made some modifications in the design of the incubator. The mattress for the infant is fully enclosed by a clear plastic canopy. The heating element under the mattress is responsible to heat the surroundings. Meanwhile, a motor driven fan near the heater draws fresh air via a filter and passes it to the heater.
The air temperature is monitored by a heat sensor and interestingly, the incubator also notes the infant skin temperature by a probe. The incubator also provides fresh air and humidity to an infant.
Although all these projects need more finishing and checking, they hold great business potential.
Biomedical engineering is also important for Pakistan because of the demanding infrastructure and equipments for diagnostics, imaging and treatment.
Bio-medical engineering is a merger of many disciplines such as physics, electronics, mechanics and other cutting edge fields, thus the students projects reflects the use of wide ranging technologies.
Biomedical Engineering department head, Dr. Abdul Haleem told Dawn.com that the university also offered cash incentives to students for selected good projects.
Our students designed the whole projects. To avoid plagiarism a panel observes the project activity throughout the year, he added.
Speaking about Industry-Academia contacts, Dr. Haleem said that they have set a committee for the university and industry liaison and few members of FPCCI visited the university but no results have come out of that as yet. He said that they can make cheap medical equipment that is high in demand but they needed support and push from the industry.
Dr.Haleem said that biomedical engineering is booming all over the world and shared a large market mainly in clinical and biomedical instrumentations, biomaterials and medical imaging.
Monday 1st November 2010
KARACHI: The students of Biomedical Engineering Department of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology developed some remarkable projects with commercial potentials. Students from the 2006-2010 batch developed the projects which included a head-controlled wheelchair, hypo-hyperthermia machine, voice operated wheelchair, and an incubator.
The projects were completed under the supervision of Ijlal Shahrukh Ateeq, Kamran Hameed and Syed M. Omair.
Voice Controlled Wheel Chair
The voice controlling electronic wheel chair was developed by Faria, Faizan, Shakil, Shamira Shafique, Syed Taha and Umair.
The electronic wheel chair can be controlled by voice, infrared or manually by a joystick. However, voice control is the main purpose to build the electronic wheel chair and HM2007, voice controlling integrated circuit is used to voice related operations.
The motor in the chair moves with respect to the input and bandwidth of the recognised voice. Infrared communications can also be used for patients suffering from paralysis through an infrared transmitter.
Hypo Hyperthermia Machine
This is also an important project of Sir Syed University developed by Taimoor, Hira, Arsala, Rimsha, Saad and Moiz.
The machine does a very important job for many patients it retains body temperature before, during and after an operation.
Temperature of a healthy body is 98.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average and extreme variations in the body temperature are called Hypo/Hyperthermia, which call for urgent attention.
Human interface and control systems are the two major parts of the project. Human interface consists of a blanket to retain the body temperature of a patient while control system controls the heating and cooling process.
Hot or cold distilled water flows between pathways in a blanket like pad and the control system controls the temperature. Thus, providing instant and accurate temperature to patients in either condition.
Hyper/Hypothermia machines are generally present in operation theatres especially during brain and heart surgeries. Its modified shapes are being used in hydrotherapy and heating beds.
Head movement controlled wheelchair
Husnain, Atif, Shuja, Zaid, Faisal and Ali Khan developed a head movement controlled wheel chair. Handicapped people and patients with spinal cord injuries can move easily and freely with the help of this chair.
A REDD sensors based head gear registers the head gestures and moves in left, right or forward directions in effective manner. Then, the control circuit processes the signals and passes them on to the relay circuit which flips the polarity of the motor to move it in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. The final output comes as smooth movement of the wheel chair in desired direction.
Infant Incubator
Rabiya Rehman, Sundus Shaikh, Nida Fatima and Samin Azam developed a modified infant incubator.
Premature infants need stable temperature of 37 degrees Celsius. A baby incubator serves this purpose and additionally humidifies the air and can add extra oxygen. Premature babies have underdeveloped nervous systems and lack energy to regulate their own temperature. Thus incubators play an important role for this purpose.
Students of Sir Syed University also made some modifications in the design of the incubator. The mattress for the infant is fully enclosed by a clear plastic canopy. The heating element under the mattress is responsible to heat the surroundings. Meanwhile, a motor driven fan near the heater draws fresh air via a filter and passes it to the heater.
The air temperature is monitored by a heat sensor and interestingly, the incubator also notes the infant skin temperature by a probe. The incubator also provides fresh air and humidity to an infant.
Although all these projects need more finishing and checking, they hold great business potential.
Biomedical engineering is also important for Pakistan because of the demanding infrastructure and equipments for diagnostics, imaging and treatment.
Bio-medical engineering is a merger of many disciplines such as physics, electronics, mechanics and other cutting edge fields, thus the students projects reflects the use of wide ranging technologies.
Biomedical Engineering department head, Dr. Abdul Haleem told Dawn.com that the university also offered cash incentives to students for selected good projects.
Our students designed the whole projects. To avoid plagiarism a panel observes the project activity throughout the year, he added.
Speaking about Industry-Academia contacts, Dr. Haleem said that they have set a committee for the university and industry liaison and few members of FPCCI visited the university but no results have come out of that as yet. He said that they can make cheap medical equipment that is high in demand but they needed support and push from the industry.
Dr.Haleem said that biomedical engineering is booming all over the world and shared a large market mainly in clinical and biomedical instrumentations, biomaterials and medical imaging.
