Biomedical Engineering is the amalgamation of engineering approaches and medical procedures to provide the solution for healthcare. Biomedical Engineering is a discipline that advances knowledge in engineering, biology, and biology so it essentially involves collaborating with doctors and medical researchers to develop medical equipment’s and devices
Bio-medical Engineering Department :
VISION
To develop an excellent biomedical engineers with strong technical knowledge to promote human health care through nuances of research and education
MISSION
1. Imparting the knowledge of engineering and life sciences to enlighten the path of students for the development of innovative biomedical products.
2. Establishing good Industry-Institute Interaction for education, training, research and development.
3. Providing quality education through active Learning methodologies.
PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOs):
PEO1 – To enable the graduates to demonstrate their skills in solving challenges in their chosen field through the core foundation and knowledge acquired in engineering and biology.
PEO2 – To enable the graduates to exhibit leadership, make decisions with societal and ethical responsibilities, function, and communicate effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
PEO3 – To ensure that graduates will recognize the need for sustaining and expanding their technical competence and engage in learning opportunities throughout their careers.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES (POs):
Engineering Graduates will be able to:
- Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
- Problem analysis: Identity, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
- Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
- Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis, and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
- The engineer and society: Apply to reason informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
- Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
- Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
- Individual and teamwork: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
- Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
- Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
PROGRAM SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (PSOs):
1) To design and develop diagnostic and therapeutic devices that reduce physician burnout and enhance the quality of life for the end-user by applying the fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering.
2) To apply software skills in developing algorithms for solving healthcare-related problems in various fields of the Medical sector.
3) To adapt to emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) to innovate ideas and solutions for current societal and scientific issues thereby developing indigenous medical instruments that are on par with the existing technology
Opportunities
The demand for engineers with backgrounds in biology and medicine is growing rapidly. Biomedical engineers play key roles in Industries, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, and government agencies. Examples of biomedical engineering opportunities include design, fabrication, and testing of medical devices, prosthesis fabrication, Physiological function monitoring, home healthcare products, biomedical information, functional imaging and tomography, biomaterial development and biocompatibility, artificial tissue and organ fabrication, development of biosensors, telemedicine equipment, and biomedical microsystems.
PROGRAM SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (PSOs):
1) To design and develop diagnostic and therapeutic devices that reduce physician burnout and enhance the quality of life for the end-user by applying the fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering.
2) To apply software skills in developing algorithms for solving healthcare-related problems in various fields of the Medical sector.
3) To adapt to emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) to innovate ideas and solutions for current societal and scientific issues thereby developing indigenous medical instruments that are on par with the existing technology
Opportunities
The demand for engineers with backgrounds in biology and medicine is growing rapidly. Biomedical engineers play key roles in Industries, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, and government agencies. Examples of biomedical engineering opportunities include design, fabrication, and testing of medical devices, prosthesis fabrication, Physiological function monitoring, home healthcare products, biomedical information, functional imaging and tomography, biomaterial development and biocompatibility, artificial tissue and organ fabrication, development of biosensors, telemedicine equipment, and biomedical microsystems.
Bio-Chemistry Laboratory
Pathology and Microbiology Laboratory
Human Physiology Laboratory
Devices and Circuits Laboratory
Integrated Circuits Laboratory
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory
Staff Achievements
Paper Publications:
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Title | Journal Name | Volume/Issue | Date (or) Month/Year |
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| 1 | Athiraja A | Banana Disease Diagnosis using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Methods | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing | vol. 12, no. 6 | 2021 |
| 2 | Athiraja A , Megala N | Survey on Identify the Agricultural Diseases Using Image Processing and Soft Computing Techniques | Alınteri Journal of Agriculture Sciences | 36(2) | August 2021 |
| 3 | Athiraja A, Megala N, Jareena Begam J | Application of an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Computer-Assisted Cancer Detection | DRUGS AND CELL THERAPIES IN HEMATOLOGY | 10(1) | Sep 2021 |
| 4 | B Nagaraj | Intelligent Network Intrusion Prevention Feature Collection and Classification Algorithms | Algorithms | 14 (8) | 2021 |
| 5 | B Nagaraj | Medical image integrated possessions assisted soft computing techniques for optimized image fusion with less noise and high contour detection | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing | vol. 12, no. 6 | 2021 |
| 6 | B Nagaraj | Colour image encryption based on customized neural network and DNA encoding | Neural Computing and Applications | 2021 | |
| 7 | B Nagaraj | Artificial intelligence-based agriculture automated monitoring systems using WSN | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing | vol. 12, no. 6 | 2021 |
| 8 | B Nagaraj | Research on College English Teaching Model Based on Decision Trees | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION AND SOFT COMPUTING | 30(1) | 2021 |
| 9 | B Nagaraj | Computational intelligence in healthcare and biosignal processing | Handbook of Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare | 2021 | |
| 10 | B Nagaraj | Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning for E-Business Outcomes | Information Systems and e-Business Management | 18(3) | 2020 |
| 11 | B Nagaraj | Enhancement of fraternal K-median algorithm with CNN for high dropout probabilities to evolve optimal time-complexity | Cluster Computing | 23(3) | 2020 |
| 12 | B Nagaraj | A deep analysis on optimization techniques for appropriate PID tuning to incline efficient artificial pancreas | Neural Computing and Applications | 32(12) | 2020 |
| 13 | B Nagaraj | Neural Computing and Applications | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND HEALTH INFORMATICS | 10(4) | 2020 |
| 14 | B Nagaraj | Computing WHERE-WHAT Classification Through FLIKM and Deep Learning Algorithms | Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies | 2020 | |
| 15 | B Nagaraj | Special section on emerging challenges in computational intelligence for signal processing applications | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION AND SOFT COMPUTING | 26(4) | 2020 |
| 16 | Mr.N.Arunkumar | Electrooculogram signal identification for elderly disabled using Elman network | 82 | 2021 | |
| 17 | Mr.N.Arunkumar | Accurate detection of myocardial infarction using nonlinear features with ECG signals | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing | 12 | 2021 |
| 18 | Mr.N.Arunkumar | Autism diagnosis via the correlation between vectors of direct quadrature instantaneous frequency of EEG analytic normalized intrinsic mode functions | Expert Systems | 2021 |
Patent Filed:
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Title | Application number | Month/Year | Patent type (Product or Design) |
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| 1 | Athiraja, Megala | Automatic Finger millet seed remover using Artificial Intelligence | 202141024482 | MAY 2021 | Product |
| 2 | Athiraja, Megala, | Multi Features Shovel (Manvetti) Using IoT | 202141034821 | June 2021 | Product |
| 3 | Athiraja, Megala | Automatic Pearl millet seed remover using Artificial Intelligence | 202141029408 | July 2021 | Product |
Student Achievements
- Student’s project selected for second round (IIT Bombay -1, YUVA-1, Accenture – 4)
- Students underwent in plant training at MICRO TECH medical diagnostics. As part of the training, they have learned about cancer diagnosis.
- Students underwent in virtual research internship at KED Groups R&D, Coimbatore (Duration: 3 months).
Patent Filed:
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Title | Application number | Month/Year | Patent type (Product or Design) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vishnu Priya, Thilothina | Automatic Finger millet seed remover using Artificial Intelligence | 202141024482 | MAY 2021 | Product |
| 2 | Vishnu Priya, Thilothina | Multi Features Shovel (Manvetti) Using IoT | 202141034821 | June 2021 | Product |
| 3 | Vishnu Priya, Thilothina | Automatic Pearl millet seed remover using Artificial Intelligence | 202141029408 | July 2021 | Product |
Faculty Details
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Name: Jimry Henry Designation: Dean – Bio Science Qualification: MBA., M.Tech., (Ph.D)., Area of Interest: Process Control, Nano Technology, Biomedical Instrumentation |
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Name: Sarah Ruby Christina Designation: HoD Qualification: M.Tech., Area of Interest: BioMEMS, Biophotonics, Biomimetics, Biomaterial, Medical Instrumentation |
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Name: Dr. Nisi. K Designation: Associate Professor Qualification:Ph.D., Area of Interest: Process control, Soft computing |
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Name: Dr. Vaidevi S Designation: Young Scientist Qualification:M.Tech, PhD Area of Interest: Nono Technology |
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Name: Naveeth Kumar R Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.E., Area of Interest: Medical Image Processing, Soft Computing, Machine Learning, Instrumentation |
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Name: Arun Kumar N Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.E., Area of Interest: Biomedical, Artificial Intelligence |
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Name: Lakshmi K Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.E., (Ph.D)., Area of Interest: Process Control, Industrial Instrumentation, Sensors & Transducers |
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Name: Sadhana S Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.Tech., Area of Interest: Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks |
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Name: Soundharya C Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.Tech., Area of Interest: Medical Electronics, Medical Imaging |
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Name: Janaranjani V Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.Tech., Area of Interest: Biomedical Instrumentation, Biomedical Equipments |
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Name: Jareena Begam J Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.Tech., Area of Interest: Instrumentation, Biomaterials |
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Name: Megala N Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.Tech., (Ph.D)., Area of Interest: Biomedical Instrumentation, Medical Imaging |
MoU’s
- TMIS Systems, Bangalore
- AGT Electronics Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore
Activities
MoU signing ceremony
Webinar on ” impact of Biomedical Engineering in modern world” by TMI Systems, Banglore.
Webinar on ” Biomedical Engineering: Prospects and possibilities in the new millennium ” by TMI Systems, Banglore.
Centre of Excellence
Centre of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) is engaged in R&D activities in the broad area of Biomedical Engineering. The lab is adequately involved with the state of the art facilities to initiate the research and development among the students for their innovative ideas to solve real-world problems involving human health and science.
The objective of the centre.
- To create the ability among the students to be inducted into the project to develop low-cost technologies related to healthcare to assist society.
- To train the students on stimulation software like MATLAB, ANSYS for Biosignal processing & analysing and Biomechanics application.
Research area
Centre of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) is focusing on conducting cutting-edge scientific research with an aim to improve research & practice in the different specializations of Biomedical Engineering.
- Design and development of Biomedical Products/Devices
- Biosignal Processing & Analysing
- Prosthetic Device
- Sensors Application.