ABEC's Updates: Stay Informed
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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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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:
- Real-time Radiation Exposure Badge
- Phototeraphy with bilirubin monitoring
- Biomedical Devices Management
- Insulin Storage System with UVC Disinfection Unit
- UV radiation Lightening
- Prototype Scalp Cooling Cap For reducing chemotherapy – induced hair loss in cancer patients
- Body fat monitoring belt
- Diabetes risk tracer
- Nurse Jane
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.
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With the introduction speech of Dr. Rushdi, the ISS 2016 takes start at the Sofir Hotel in Cairo. It will be a fantastic week focused on the use of big data in medicine and biomedical engineering. Stay tuned!
Here you can find the complete program.