Archives: biomedical

Archives: biomedical

Photo: Colin Miyata

Chancellor’s medallist has passion for robotics

By Susan Hickman | Carleton Now Carleton’s research in rehabilitation robotics piqued Colin Miyata’s interest while he was still in high school. With his fascination with design, biology and the... More

Posted on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 in Education Feed for all posts filed under Education and tagged ,

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Update: Submissions to IDeA contest showcase accessible design

Six teams of Carleton students submitted entries to the Council of Ontario Universities 2013 IDeA contest. The contest invites undergraduates from all disciplines to propose ideas that can improve... More

Posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 in News Feed for all posts filed under News and tagged , ,

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PEO Papers Night winners

  Congratulations to Tim Inglis (biomedical and electrical engineering) and Tyler Clancy (mechanical engineering) on their winning presentations at the PEO Papers Night on April 9. Inglis was... More

Posted on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 in Competitions and Awards Feed for all posts filed under Competitions and Awards, Education Feed for all posts filed under Education, fourth year projects Feed for all posts filed under fourth year projects and tagged , ,

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Bike crash test dummy on Daily Planet

The innovative fourth-year project being used to investigate bike-car crashes is featured on Daily Planet.... More

Posted on Thursday, April 4th, 2013 in Education Feed for all posts filed under Education, fourth year projects Feed for all posts filed under fourth year projects, Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged ,

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A “shocking” thesis

Varsha Chaugai heard about Carleton’s master’s program in biomedical engineering from her home in Nepal. “Coming from a third world country with poor health care, I always wanted to improve the... More

Posted on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News, Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged , ,

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Ontario Brain Institute’s Entrepreneurs Program helping Carleton research get to market

Aliasgar Morbi, a PhD student, has been working on a pioneering rehabilitation technology: a robotic exoskeleton designed to walk behind and support a rehab patient can help post-surgical or... More

Posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 in Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged ,

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Grad student flexes his research muscles

Coming from a family of physicians, it seemed only natural that Graham Fraser would be interested in the medical field. Fraser grew up asking questions like − ‘How do nerve cells in the human... More

Posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 in Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged , ,

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Rehabilitation system wins IEEE student paper competition

Amrita Sandhu, Nick Stupich, Musabbir Khan and Mark Klibanov won the the IEEE Eastern Ontario Oral Student Paper Competition for their project Muscle Mate. Held at Algonquin College in March, the... More

Posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 in Competitions and Awards Feed for all posts filed under Competitions and Awards, Education Feed for all posts filed under Education, fourth year projects Feed for all posts filed under fourth year projects and tagged , ,

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Biking crash test dummy (Ottawa Citizen)

Carleton engineering students design crash test dummy for cycling accidents By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen April 5, 2012 Carleton University students have designed a type of crash test dummy not seen... More

Posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 in fourth year projects Feed for all posts filed under fourth year projects, Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged ,

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Medical engineering in the Texas Instruments Embedded Processing Lab

From monitoring fetal heartbeats to detecting specific muscle signals and abnormalities, researchers like Richard Dansereau (pictured) are using the Texas Instruments Enbedded Processing Lab to... More

Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2012 in Research Feed for all posts filed under Research and tagged