Month: February 2019

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Minutes 02.25.2019

Health Professions Panel

BMES, in collaboration with the BME Department, is hoping to organize a BME Health Professions Panel of BME Alumni who are in the Rochester area practicing as MDs, MD residents, Nurses. We are trying to gauge interest and figure out potential dates/times for the session. Please fill out this form if you are interested and can make one or more of these times.

BMES Mentor Program is still open!

Please email urbmesmentorship@gmail.com if you would like to be a mentor or would like a mentor assigned to you!

Color a Cure

Advertising Support for Cancer Awareness Club

The Cancer Awareness Club (previously known as Colleges Against Cancer) is hosting Color A Cure. Last year, due to campus feedback we changed the mission of our club and partnered with Wilmot Cancer Institute right here at the University of Rochester in hopes of better the lives of cancer patients and investing in cancer research right here at home.

No longer a part of the American Cancer Society, we have had some freedom to rebrand our biggest event of the year and last spring created Color A Cure. This year we are hosting Color A Cure once more. We hope you can come join us on April 7th, 3pm to 5pm in the May Room for a fun-filled afternoon of activities, raffles, food, and guest performances.

Signing up is easy, just click the link below and “form a team” or “join an existing team”.

http://teamraiser.rochester.edu/site/TR?fr_id=1321&pg=entry

Women in STEM Panel

Cosponsorship with SWE and She’s The First

She’s the First and Society of Women Engineers are organizing Women in STEM panel, held on March 5th from 5pm to 6pm in Wegmans 1400. We have invited a variety of different professors from fields such as BME, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and many others to speak about their experiences and paths to success in their careers. The professors who are attending are Dr. Amy Lerner (BME), Dr. Astrid Muller (ChemE), Dr. Renee Miller (BCS), Dr. Alexis Stein (Biology), and Dr. Ayla Gafni (Math). This panel is meant to shed light on the challenges that women face while entering STEM careers, as well as inspire the young women who are pursuing STEM-related fields while here, at the University of Rochester.

While the women on this panel will offer advice for women, we also aim to educate the other half of the population in the hopes that we can help create a more equal playing field in the future.

We are not asking for a set amount of members to attend, just as many as are interested. We also ask that you spread the word about the event and encourage others to go, as well as submit questions to the attached google form for our panelists here.

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February Fever

BMES E-Board Elections

February 4th, 2019 was definitely a day to remember. Some members of BMES were sad, yet excited to leave their E-Board positions and pass it on to their successors, while some were nervous and hopeful to make it to the prestigious E-Board. Approximately 15 members ran for E-Board positions that day; a record-breaking number since all past elections! Chantelle Lim, our former President, conducted the elections with the help of the rest of the former E-Board and after solid two hours of tough decision making, the new E-Board was selected. So now I present to you, BMES’ new E-Board for this semester…. drum roll please…

President: Ananya Goyal

Vice President: Joe Madejski

Business Manager: Lam Nguyen

Secretary: Tram Nguyen

Social Chair: Alex Rivera

Publicity Chair: Thu (Tracy) Le

Outreach Chair: Ruyi (Lauren) Li

Mentoring Chair: Caroline Stockwell

Newsletter Chair: Reshul Narhari

Webmaster: Priscila Passeroti

by Reshul Narhari

BMES Game Night – Mentoring Event

The event took place on February 7th  from 5 – 7:30 pm, in the Munnerlyn Atrium, Goergen Hall. It was the first mentoring event of the semester, and the theme of the event was BMES Game Night. We brought playing cards, UNO and paper for origami for activities, and students from the BME Dept. were invited to meet and socialize with each other. The aim of the event was to help first and second year students get advice about course registration and schedule planning, as registration is coming up soon. Pizza and soda were also served.

by Ananya Goyal

STEM Superstar

BMES participated in our first outreach event of the semester in Rettner Hall on February 9th, 2019. Along with several other student organizations, we taught a science lesson to six groups of ten to fifteen girl scouts of elementary school age who had an interest in science! With our brand new heart model, we taught the girls all about how blood is pumped through the heart and lungs and then sent into systemic circulation. The model pumps “blood” (water with dye) through labeled chambers of the heart to show filling and emptying of the chambers with each heartbeat.

They learned fun facts like “The heart beats 112,000 times per day” and  “Whales have the largest hearts of all animals”. The girls also filled out a worksheet where they labeled all the parts of the heart, so they could take it home and look at it again.

The girls got to feel their heart in action by taking their pulse and counting for one minute to find out their heart rate. After running in place, they felt their pulse again and were excited to find out that their hearts were working much faster after exercise. We explained how hard the heart has to work hard every day, and how sometimes there are problems with the heart that Biomedical Engineers can fix. They asked many great questions and learned a whole lot about one of the most important organs in their body! The event was overall a very successful start to semester full of outreach events, and we can’t wait for the next one!

by Caroline Stockwell

Study Abroad Event

The Biomedical Engineering society had a study abroad panel on January 30th, 2019 in Goergen hall. Students heard valuable information from representatives from the study abroad office as well as Professor Lerner. They emphasized that there are numerous options for fitting study abroad into the BME curriculum. You can even choose to go abroad in the summer or do research abroad.

Students also heard directly from their fellow BME students about their own study abroad experiences. Each student gave a brief presentation on their trips to destinations including Ireland, Germany, Ecuador, and New Zealand. Pizza was served and the attendees learned a whole lot about study abroad as an Engineer!

by Caroline Stockwell

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

On the 15th of February, 2019 I attended a lovely banquet hosted by the University of Rochester chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The event began with half an hour dedicated to networking, during which I personally got to speak with some notable faculty of the Rochester Institute of Technology as well as faculty in some our very own U of R labs. For the next hour there was a catered dinner (the food was great) and some more nice conversation over dinner. Then, promptly at 7:30, Dr. Mike Campbell began his talk.

Dr. Campbell is the Director of the Laboratory of Laser Energetics and is really good at his job. He began by giving a bit of insight as to what exactly they do at his lab, and by explaining the core principles of physics and engineering around which their research revolves. As a BME major, much of this was foreign to me, as it’s quite drastically different from my field of study. However, Dr. Campbell held my attention by frequently putting the research into perspective, and carefully stating why it is such an important field of study. Without going into too much detail, the Lab for Laser Energetics is an astonishing place with some extremely knowledgeable faculty, and I suggest doing some reading into the phenomenal work they do there.

by Alexander Rivera

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Minutes 02.18.2019

Health Professions Panel

BMES, in collaboration with the BME Department, is hoping to organize a BME Health Professions Panel of BME Alumni who are in the Rochester area practicing as MDs, MD residents, Nurses. We are trying to gauge interest and figure out potential dates/times for the session. Please fill out this form if you are interested and can make one or more of these times.

Women in STEM Posters

Cosponsorship with SWE

We want to fill Carlson library with women who inspire us for March (Women’s history month). Do research on one female in STEM and her accomplishments and make a poster about it. The set up  of the display would be 4 large poster boards that would be displayed in Carlson with your posters cut out on to them as “mini” posters, each the size of a piece of paper (8.5″ x 11″). Additionally, the plan is to have each of your posters featured on a bigger view electronically, looping through the digital screens of the library. Attached is a poster template you can follow, but also change to make your own! Please send Nicole (nrinald2@u.rochester.edu) your finished poster by Friday, March 1st. Again, if you know people who still want to sign up, you can let them know they still can, but March is coming up fairly quickly.  If you are interested please sign up here!

Women in STEM Panel

Cosponsorship with SWE and She’s The First

She’s the First and Society of Women Engineers are organizing Women in STEM panel, held on March 5th from 5pm to 6pm in Wegmans 1400. We have invited a variety of different professors from fields such as BME, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and many others to speak about their experiences and paths to success in their careers. The professors who are attending are Dr. Amy Lerner (BME), Dr. Astrid Muller (ChemE), Dr. Renee Miller (BCS), Dr. Alexis Stein (Biology), and Dr. Ayla Gafni (Math). This panel is meant to shed light on the challenges that women face while entering STEM careers, as well as inspire the young women who are pursuing STEM-related fields while here, at the University of Rochester.

While the women on this panel will offer advice for women, we also aim to educate the other half of the population in the hopes that we can help create a more equal playing field in the future.

We are not asking for a set amount of members to attend, just as many as are interested. We also ask that you spread the word about the event and encourage others to go, as well as submit questions to the attached google form for our panelists here.

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Minutes 02.12.2019

ASME Student Banquet & Talk

Ticket link | Facebook event

Friday, February 15 from 6-9 pm
May Room at Wilson Commons

Enjoy a delicious catered meal, network with local professionals, students, and faculty from both UR and RIT, and hear a talk given by the Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Dr. Mike Campbell.  BMES is cosponsoring the event!  Sign up to attend here

Women in STEM Posters

Cosponsorship with SWE

We want to fill Carlson library with women who inspire us for March (Women’s history month). Do research on one female in STEM and her accomplishments and make a poster about it.  If you are interested please sign up here by Feb. 11! You don’t need to know who you want to research, but we want to gauge interest so please sign up now! This is a great way to get more involved with the club and to learn about the accomplishments of other women in STEM.

Possible GEAR event

Admissions and the Hajim School Dean’s Office hosts an interview event for prospective GEAR students in mid-February and we need your help! Here’s more information about what GEAR is:

http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/academics/options/gear.html
Visiting students have an option of staying overnight at UR and we would like to have an engineering activity planned for them that helps them get to know life at UR and what it’s like to be an engineering student at UR. The event would need to be the evening (6-8:30) of Monday, Feb 18. It could be a game night, movies, UR/Engineering Jeopardy, or whatever sounds fun to you all.We want to highlight the diversity of our student body and programming this year. While we really would like all of our engineering groups to participate (either help plan or be at the event), if you are a student group that is focused on or excited about increasing the gender or racial/cultural diversity of our engineers, please please definitely join us in organizing this event!  Admissions can help with funding or space needs if necessary.

If you’re interested, email Rosie Cash (rcash@u.rochester.edu).

Need Business Cards?

Una Business Cards serve the community for their branding and graphic design needs. What separates us from other business card company is that we believe a great design makes your professional identity stand out. We get to know our customers before coming up with a design.

We have worked closely with startup companies and students to come up with designs that are memorable and unique. We are endorsed by the career center to provide business card service on campus.

If you are interested in having his design made and print, you send an email to us for a quote: unabusinesscards@gmail.com

Check our business card designs and business card cases at: http://unabusinesscards.com/

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Minutes 02.04.2019

Engineering Resume Workshop

Wednesday, February 6th from 6-6:45 PM at Frederick Douglas 407 

Join a Greene Center advisor to learn the basics and strategy behind developing a resume.

Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 

RSVP in the EVENTS section of Handshake here

Mentoring Game Night

Thursday, February 7th in the Georgen Atrium

Stop by at some point between 5 and 7:30

Free pizza and drinks!

Be a STEM Superstar @UR

Saturday, February 10 from 12-2pm

STEM Superstar is an event from the girl scouts of western New York with girls grade 2-5. BMES is having a table with a heart model. Sign-up to help us table here

ASME Student Banquet & Talk

Ticket link | Facebook event

Friday, February 15 from 6-9 pm

May Room at Wilson Commons

Enjoy a delicious catered meal, network with local professionals, students, and faculty from both UR and RIT, and hear a talk given by the Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Dr. Mike Campbell.  BMES is cosponsoring the event!  Sign up to attend here

Possible GEAR event

Admissions and the Hajim School Dean’s Office hosts an interview event for prospective GEAR students in mid-February and we need your help! Here’s more information about what GEAR is:http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/academics/options/gear.html

Visiting students have an option of staying overnight at UR and we would like to have an engineering activity planned for them that helps them get to know life at UR and what it’s like to be an engineering student at UR. The event would need to be the evening (6-8:30) of Monday, Feb 18. It could be a game night, movies, UR/Engineering Jeopardy, or whatever sounds fun to you all.We want to highlight the diversity of our student body and programming this year. While we really would like all of our engineering groups to participate (either help plan or be at the event), if you are a student group that is focused on or excited about increasing the gender or racial/cultural diversity of our engineers, please please definitely join us in organizing this event!  Admissions can help with funding or space needs if necessary.

If you’re interested, email Rosie Cash (rcash@u.rochester.edu)

Need Business Cards?

Una Business Cards serve the community for their branding and graphic design needs. What separates us from other business card company is that we believe a great design makes your professional identity stand out. We get to know our customers before coming up with a design.We have worked closely with startup companies and students to come up with designs that are memorable and unique. We are endorsed by the career center to provide business card service on campus.If you are interested in having his design made and print, you send an email to us for a quote: unabusinesscards@gmail.comCheck our business card designs and business card cases at: http://unabusinesscards.com/

Congrats to our New Eboard Members! 

President: Ananya Goyal
Vice President: Joe Madejski
Business Manager: Lam Nguyen
Secretary: Tram Nguyen
Social Chair: Alex Rivera
Publicity Chair: Thu (Tracy) Le 
Outreach Chair: Ruyi (Lauren) Li 
Mentoring Co-Chair: Firaol Midekssa & Caroline Stockwell
Newsletter Chair: Reshul Narhari
Webmaster: Priscila Passeroti
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Minutes 1.21.2019

Career Conversation With BME Alum Luke Daily ’16, MS ‘17 

Wednesday January 23 at 5pm @ Goergen 101

Veterans Affairs Health Care Technical Career Field Program

Clinical engineering (a.k.a. Healthcare Technology Management) involves managing medical devices, administering medical device networks, and engineering project management within hospitals. The Technical Career Field (TCF) program within the Department of Veterans Affairs is a great opportunity to receive plenty of on-the-job training and gain exposure to the front line of healthcare. This program can provide exposure to troubleshooting medical equipment, networking medical devices (Internet of Things), project management, lean/six sigma methodologies, government contracting, and other fields depending upon your own interests.

 

BMES General Interest Meeting

Monday January 28th at 7:30 pm @ Georgen 239

There will be free pizza and drinks!  Everyone is invited to the Eboard meeting afterward. You must attend 1 Eboard meeting in order to run for a position!!

 

BMES Elections

Monday February 4, at 8pm @ Georgen 239

We need people from all years, so if you’re interested, please come!

 

ASME Student Banquet & Talk

Friday, February 15 from 6-9 pm @ May Room at Wilson Commons

Ticket link | Facebook event

Enjoy a delicious catered meal, network with local professionals, students, and faculty from both UR and RIT, and hear a talk given by the Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Dr. Mike Campbell.  BMES is cosponsoring the event!  Sign up to attend here.

 

Possible GEAR Event

Admissions and the Hajim School Dean’s Office hosts an interview event for prospective GEAR students in mid-February and we need your help! Here’s more information about what GEAR is:

http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/academics/options/gear.html

Visiting students have an option of staying overnight at UR and we would like to have an engineering activity planned for them that helps them get to know life at UR and what it’s like to be an engineering student at UR. The event would need to be the evening (6-8:30) of Monday, Feb 18. It could be a game night, movies, UR/Engineering Jeopardy, or whatever sounds fun to you all. We want to highlight the diversity of our student body and programming this year. While we really would like all of our engineering groups to participate (either help plan or be at the event), if you are a student group that is focused on or excited about increasing the gender or racial/cultural diversity of our engineers, please please definitely join us in organizing this event!  Admissions can help with funding or space needs if necessary.

If you’re interested, email Rosie Cash (rcash@u.rochester.edu).