Biomedical Engineering & Electrical Engineering
Biomedical engineering (BME) focuses on the application of engineering principles in the field of healthcare and biology for medicinal purposes.
As the name suggests, electrical engineering is all things electricity. Electromagnetism and electronics are core components of this degree and has applications in most of the technology visible today.
Our week consisted of working with circuits and involved the development of the basic understanding of logic gates and boolean algebra to create solutions targeted towards COVID-19 and university selections.
Projects
Understanding of Series Circuits
Consisting of a battery, 2 buttons and 2 light emitting diodes (LEDs), we were able to create a series circuit that required BOTH inputs to be 1 and allow for voltage to pass through the circuit
Understanding of Parallel Circuits
Consisting of a battery, 2 buttons and 2 light emitting diodes (LEDs), we were able to create a series circuit that required EITHER inputs to be 1 and allow for voltage to pass through the circuit
Application of circuits in college admission process
This circuit required the usage of AND and OR gates to distinguish between the different options.
We developed a truth table and a logic plan in order to plan out the circuit and create it, using the logic plan as a blueprint
Application of circuits in COVID-19 symptom testing
This is the original logic plan developed by Pratham and Justin, designed to map out the various components that would be required to include in this circuit board that our group was proceeding to create.
Above is the final circuit plan, developed on CircuitLab and comprises of all the various components that was planned
Final Project
This is the final circuit that we developed using 8 breadboards and a lot of logic gates including the AND, OR, NOR, NOT gates. This allowed us to be versatile in our design and include unique components. These gates also helped us reduce the space consumed by the wires as we were able to simplify the process.