AK - a passionate bio-medical / clinical, human factors and systems engineer with human touch.

"Experience is a Hard Teacher because she gives the Test First, the Lesson Afterwards"- Vernon Sanders Law

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1) I am a researcher and if you are a researcher or would like to become a researcher, you may watch the documentary : " Dr. George Whitesides - How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research" by ACS Publications.

2) Important and useful resources for Graduate Students (Master's and Doctoral)

* Academic Joy

* Canada vs. the U.S.: where should you attend grad school?

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Biomedical Engineering :

"Bioengineers are focused on advancing human health and promoting environmental sustainability, two of the greatest challenges for our world. Understanding complex living systems is at the heart of meeting these challenges".

"The biomedical engineer is a health care professional, a group that includes physicians, nurses, and technicians. Biomedical engineers may be called upon to design instruments and devices, to bring together knowledge from many sources to develop new procedures, or to carry out research to acquire knowledge needed to solve new problems."

Biomedical Engineering : " Where Engineering Meets Imagination " - IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society ( IEEE- EMBS )

Example : Watch the talk of Dr.Joseph Cafazzo, a biomedical engineer who has spent his entire career in a hospital setting.Joe and his team are the biggest critics of poorly designed health technologies and their ineffectiveness. He surrounds himself with whip-smart, and passionate engineers and designers who are creating technologies that are spirited, modern, people-focused, and hopefully, suck less.- TED talk -2012. Click here for his talk.

Industrial and Systems Engineering :

“Industrial engineering emerged as a profession as a result of the industrial revolution and the accompanying need for technically trained people who could plan, organize, and direct the operations of large complex systems.”

Example of a complex system: Please watch this video of Amazon's fulfillment centers on the abc News.

Human Factors Engineering : (Ergonomics)

"Human Factors Engineering (HFE) is an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating and improving the safety, efficiency, and robustness of work systems, such as healthcare delivery."

For more Information Visit : International Ergonomics Association (IEA) , Healthcare Human Factors , Medical Device Human Factors ,

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Avinash Konkani, Ph.D., M.S., B.E., SMIEEE