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Features: Design
Nakhjiri is a veteran in creating emerging technologies and loves dealing with their ambiguities and challenges.
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Features: Medical
Zahabi's passion to understand human behavior led her to a career in industrial and systems engineering.
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Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Value engineering (VE) is an organized/systematic approach directed at analyzing the function of systems, equipment, facilities, services, and supplies for the purpose of achieving their essential...
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Features: Medical
When engineers develop orthopedic surgical devices, they must often think beyond the design of the device, and find a way to make its installation easier, safer, and more accurate. Sometimes...
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Features: Medical
Cyber threats to health delivery organizations (HDOs) and the medical device industry as a whole have hit a new level of maturity in the last year. A decade ago, the attack scene was...
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Global Innovations: Robotics, Automation & Control
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China www.polyu.edu.hk A team of engineers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have collaborated on an...
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Briefs: Medical
Dr. Mark Rodefeld, a pediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University, has spent decades helping to fix children’s hearts. He found one problem particularly vexing, leading to years of his own research...
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers tame aerogel by freezing it. Graphene, which was discovered in 2004, is 1 million times thinner than a human hair, 300 times stronger than steel, and is the best known conductor of heat and...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
Comparing the cool factor of medical device components to Robert Downey Jr.’s gleaming armor in the film Iron Man 2 is…well…tough. But compare...
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R&D: Medical
A group of engineers and students at Kansas State University, Manhattan, is developing technology to improve the health and quality of life for children with severe developmental disabilities.
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Applications: Medical
With numerous developments in medical equipment and software, physicians no longer have to wait three to five days for lab results for accurate and timely blood...
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Features: Medical
Most medical electronic systems now depend on combinations of hardware and software, forming elaborate mechatronic systems that both monitor and regulate patient health...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
The days of being blinded by glare from the sun, despite the $300 sunglasses straddling your face, may soon be over. Since 2003, Chris Mullin, PhD, and CEO of Dynamic Eye (Pittsburgh, PA), has...
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Features: Medical
In 1985, Kasai, Namekawa, Koyana, and Omoto published a paper titled “Real-Time Two-Dimensional Blood Flow Imaging Using an Autocorrelation Technique” that changed...
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Briefs: Medical
Diabetic control typically requires daily monitoring of blood glucose levels. This involves finger pricking 2–10 times a day in order to obtain a sample for assay. Many find the finger prick...
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Features: Medical
What’s So Hard About Medical Device Software Compliance?
The IEC 62304 standard for medical device software is causing system engineers worldwide to step back and examine their software development methods with considerable scrutiny. Although at one time, software development and testing was an integral part of overall system design and...

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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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