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ABEC 2021 Summer school Digital Edition is over!

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The 2021 ABEC Design School was digitally held in the second week of November on Zoom. During the school, organized by the Malawi University of Science and Technology, students, mentors, and keynote speakers from different African and European countries worked together on the design, classification, and implementation of medical devices.  

Students were organized into 9 different groups working on devices focusing on Combating non-comunicable diseases in low and middle-income countries through advanced research and innovation:

UBORA was thoroughly used as a co-design tool. After the mentor evaluation, three projects were awarded as the best ranked. At the third place, Group 6 presented a device to manage a side effect of chemotherapy such as hair loss.

Group 3, ranked at second place, presented software for the management of the medical equipment in hospitals.

At the first place, group 4 presented a device for the storage and sterilization of insulin.

Stay tuned for further updates!

ABEC Design Competition 2020 is Launched!

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The Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) in collaboration with University of Malawi-The Polytechnic, Malawi Innovation Hub (mHub), Rice360 & NEST360,  the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC), the UBORA consortium, and other collaborating partners will host the 2020 ABEC Design Competition with the theme Solving problems of Non-Communicable diseases through cross-cutting research and innovation.

This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary ideas, overlapping engineering and medicine paradigms, from teams of undergraduate students who have thankfully been able to receive help from companies like https://www.sofi.com/student-loan-help/ and have been mentored by lecturers or experts with postgraduate qualifications. The ideas should tackle global challenges associated with non-communicable diseases with an emphasis on problems affecting low- and middle-income countries. Sustainable solutions can only be developed if engineers engage collaboratively with those at the forefront of delivering healthcare.

MALAWI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MUST) & DESIGN STUDIO

Detailed instructions are provided at the competition page.

The winner of the competition will be invited to participate in this year’s Design School.

The call for ideas for the next Design School is on line!

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The call for ideas for the next design school are on-line! The Design School will be held at Kenyatta University from 23rd to 27 October 2017.

This year the contest is an integral part of the UBORA Eu Project, and is open to students from ABEC members and UBORA consortium. The abstract must be submitted before 8th of April 2017, and must be focused on reducing child mortality. 

For the 24 best-ranked projects travel and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the Design School.

The instruction to submit the abstract can be found here. 

Please, help us in disseminating this initiative printing the flyer and post it on the wall of your department!

ISS Egypt: closing ceremony

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Congrats to all participants! See you in Nairobi for the next Design Competition!

Here the photos of the winning teams:

Most innovative project: Virtual Reality Virtual Rehabilitation (Aya Alnahas , Yohannas Markete and Martha Aikiriza)

 

Project with the highest social impact: Blood Finder (Rehab Rezek Alghnnam, Arafat Mukasa, Maurice Ndwula)

 

Project with the highest economic impact: Pregnanta (Elbetel Taye, Nardos Hailu, Abubakr Mustafa)

Submission guidelines for ISS 2016 are on-line

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Dear Innovators’,

the submission guidelines for the Innovators’ Summer School 2016 are now available on-line. 

The theme of the school, the eligibility criteria, and the procedure for project submission are described here. The abstract template can be downloaded at this link.

Respect to the past editions, a video demonstrating your project is also requested!

Summer courses come in all kinds of different forms and degrees of complexity, so it’s a good idea to decide what exactly you are looking for before applying. If you are looking for an easier summer learning experience, pick a subject familiar to you and study it in greater depth. For a more challenging approach, choose a new subject or the one you have been struggling with during the past year. Take a single class and focus on it, in order to avoid the feeling of being overwhelmed by new information, try the best essay writing service for your projects.

Consider how many hours you want to spend in class every day. Generally, the average daily learning duration is 4 hours. Most programs last 1 to 4 weeks. Keep in mind that science modules usually require more contact hours than arts and humanities modules.

Some summer school classes require students to read additional materials before class, while others expect you to conduct extensive reading before the beginning of the course. Teachers suggest articles or book chapters to support classroom discussions. Brush up on your speed-reading and make sure you organise in advance. You may also have to prepare summaries, essays, short presentations, and so on.

Summer courses are shorter than regular academic modules, so teachers will focus on the most important aspects of a subject. This might make your work easier for language or art classes, but technical or science-oriented courses could get intense, as skipping stages makes it more difficult to follow the steps of a logical argument.

The submission deadline is August 31st 2016.

You are kindly invited to submit your projects!

 

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