Instrumentation Track

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Instrumentation Track

• Participants
• Courses UNC/NCSU
• Lab facilities/ Resources
• Grant/Research opportunities
• Industrial Links
• External opportunities

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Students (partial list)

• Cooney, Dan
• Demby, H
• Chalker, Alan
• Edwards, Jason
• Singh, Swaroop
• Wang, Xiaowu
• Zong, Shoquan
• Wolfe, Steve

• Zhang, Jim
• Christopher, P
• Cole, Randal
• Devkota, Aaditya
• Cribb, Jeremy
• Parham, Christopher
• Seagle, Christopher
• Gong, Peng

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Faculty (Associated)

• Henry Hsiao
• Eddie Grant
• Tim Johnson
• Rich Goldberg
• Bob Dennis
• Mark Tommerdahl,
• Ro
• Dave Lalush

• Charles Finley
• Steve Knisley
• Steve Quint
• Al Banes
• Troy Nagle.
• OlegFavorov
• Wolcott
• Timm Crowder

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Track Courses (UNC)

• BMME 111 Biomedical Instrumentation
• BMME 201 Biomedical Instrumentation II
• BMME 220 Real-Time Computer Appls II
• BMME 231 Special Topics in Instrument

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Track Courses (NCSU)

• CBS 860 Instrumentation for
• ECE 520 Digital ASIC Design
• ECE 525 Medical Instrumentation
• ECE 591M Microsensor Engineering
• ECE 592M Biosensor Engineering
• ECE 703 Instrumentation Circuits

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Courses (supplementary)

• BMME 100 Intro to Biomedical Engineering
• BMME 120 Real-Time Computer Appls I
• BMME 121 Digital Signal Processing I
• BMME 128 Anal Synth Digital Systems
• BMME 181 or BMME 151 Physiology I
• PHYS 101 Intro to Electronics I
• PHYS 102 Intro to Electronics II

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Courses (UNC electives)

• BMME 106 Systems and Signals
• BMME 107 Information, Modulation, Transmission
  and Noise
• BMME 132 Linear Control Theory
• BMME 154 Microelectrode Techniques
• BMME 220 Real-time Computer Applications II
• BMME 204 Solid State Theory and Fabrication
• BMME 232 Advanced Biological Control Theory
• PHYS 102 Intro to Electronics II
• PHYI 140 Cell and Organ System Physiology

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Course (NCSU-electives)

• ECE 704 Logic Design for Testability
• ECE 511 Analog Electronics
• ECE 712 Analog VLSI
• ECE 733 Digital Electronics
• ECE 546 VLSI Systems Design

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Lab facilities/ Resources

• 2-D electrode arrays, fabricated on Kapton
  substrates
• Ion-selective electrodes (pH, K, Ca, Na)
• Electronic nose technology (arrays of gas sensors
  and signal processing)
• Cell culturing instrumentation (electrodes on
  glass coverslips)
• Biotelemetry for in-vivo measurements
• Inductive powering of implanted electronics
• Ultrasound flex connector
• Miniature reference electrode
• Interdigitated electrode arrays
• Microfabricated carbon electrode arrays
• Biosurvivability of implanted electronic devices
• Enzyme activity sensors

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Clinical Resources

• Nursing School
• Dental School
• Human Movement Sciences
• School of Pharmacy
• Computer Science Department
• Biology Department
• UNC Hospitals
• Medical School Departments

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Facilities needed

• Integrated student laboratories at UNC and NCSU
  (tele-laboratories)
• Upgraded instrumentation (sensors, test
  equipment, fabrication, other)
• Dedicated Project Laboratory
• Database of waveforms
• Computer/PDA development software

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Industrial/Govt Links

• Embrex
• CardiovascularDiagnostics Inc.
• IT Works
• EPA
• NIH RTP
• Galaxo-Wellcome
• Work-Study option (?)

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External Entrepreneurial Options

• Establish new companies on projects originated in
  track
• Patents
• Industrial Grant/Research support
• Post graduate job opportunities
• Business School options