May/June 2015

Biomedical Engineering Education in Japan
Author(s): Toshiyo Tamura
Biomedical Engineering Education in Japan 618 370 IEEE Pulse

This year, IEEE Pulse has been examining biomedical engineering education around the world. This month, we take a look at biomedical engineering education in Japan. Biomedical engineering education in Japan…

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Information Processing for Neonatal Health Care
Author(s): Jayanta Mukherjee
Information Processing for Neonatal Health Care 618 370 IEEE Pulse

Health care for newborn babies, in particular in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), poses various challenges in defining and coordinating critical decision making processes involving their treatment and the…

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Leonardo da Vinci, Artist-Engineer
Author(s): IEEE Pulse
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist-Engineer 618 370 IEEE Pulse

Dr. Domenico Laurenza In August at EMBC15 in Milan, Dr. Domenico Laurenza, of bgC3, Kirkland-Seattle, USA and the Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy, will deliver a keynote speech entitled “Machines and…

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Building a Better Breast Pump
Author(s): Summer Allen
Building a Better Breast Pump 618 370 IEEE Pulse

Right now thousands of women are connected to a machine. This machine is essentially a vacuum, but these women aren’t housecleaning: they’re pumping breast milk for their babies. Breast pumps…

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Ethical Considerations for Deep Brain Stimulation
Author(s): Bernard Allan Cohen
Ethical Considerations for Deep Brain Stimulation 150 150 IEEE Pulse

A recent issue of IEEE Pulse (March/April 2015) featured an article by Shannon Fischer entitled “Inside Tract: Can Deep Brain Stimulation Survive Its Reputation for Success?” Deep brain stimulation (DBS)…

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Listening to Light and Seeing Through: Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging
Author(s): Chulhong Kim, Daniel Razansky
Listening to Light and Seeing Through: Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging 150 150 IEEE Pulse

In today’s clinical practice, human vision remains the major diagnostic imaging tool that can capture the shapes and colors of tissue surfaces. Similarly, a very popular manmade device, the camera,…

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Packaging, Labeling, and Sterilization in Capstone Design
Author(s): Jay Goldberg
Packaging, Labeling, and Sterilization in Capstone Design 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Lectures in capstone design courses provide an opportunity to present information needed by students to properly execute their projects and/or prepare them for their careers. They can be used to…

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Why Are Our Teachers Taking It on the Chin?
Author(s): Art Johnson
Why Are Our Teachers Taking It on the Chin? 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Two headlines tell it all. The first, on the cover of the 3 November 2014 issue of Time, says, “Rotten Apples: It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher.” The…

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May/June 2015 PULSE Cover

Changing the Calculus of Pediatric Product Development
Author(s): Sarah Campbell
Changing the Calculus of Pediatric Product Development 618 370 IEEE Pulse

First, Deliece Hofen drops the pill into hot water to soften the outside coating. Then, she slices through the center of the pill with an X-ACTO knife and squeezes the…

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