Tufts Biomedical Engineering Society

Opening: TED talk – Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology, May 2011
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology.html

BMES recap – Alex Mitropoulos:

- What is BMES? Conference is in Atlanta, Georgia for 2012, 3 days
- Ground breaking research presented, poster presentations and talked ranging from Professors to undergraduates
- Alex postered: modified desk embosser? Sub-micron sphere application in silk
- Tons of stuff: Program Book. Interesting talks: Optical trapping being able sort by size (Naval Research Labs, Maryland)
- If you start conducting research, talk to Professor to plan about going to BMES. Next year’s conference is in Seattle
- 2013 conference is September 23rd, Application submitted in April (graduate students), August? (undergraduates). Submit abstract (1 page) More Info

Industry Days Recap:
-Five different companies came to talk about what they look for internships and what they look for in resume/candidate
-Understand what you would be doing so you can talk about it during interview (show that you’ve done your homework)
- Room should’ve been bigger.

BMES Freshmen Application Panel
- November 28th Open Block: Freshmen rep need to spread the word

Muhammad Zaman Lecture
- Need specific time for Nov 28th

Company tours:
- (Next Semester) Philips medical – Touring the ultrasound. When do you want to do this? Before/After Thanksgiving?
- (Tentative Date: Dec 11th) Allergan – Serica Technologies – Silk therapies

High school outreach (Next Semester)
Relay for Life (Next semester)

T-shirt Finalization
- WANNABME? is the winner
- We are ordering them! YAY!

This week:
- Industry days
- Kickoff for Relay for life: (Wednesday night) Do we want to
- Thursday 6-7 General Meeting in Anderson: Ask about upcoming events (Prospective 1st major BME  freshmen), Intro recap with BMES graduate student

Upcoming events:
- Highschool outreach: will probably be doing this after thanksgiving
- Global impact of engineering – BU professor speaker

New ideas:
- Open Mic Night: Want to target BME department but open to anyone, Designated games, sweedish fish

EBoard will try make discussions more transparent and public

Tufts Industrial Day -Nov 14th 2012 copy

Congratulations to Yuji Takeda and the Xu Lab for winning the Best Costume and Spookiest Lab trophies!

Find all of the costume submissions below

http://s1322.beta.photobucket.com/user/bmestufts/library/BMES%20Costume%20Contest%202012

This Friday, BMES is hosting a Barbecue on Fletcher Field.

This will be a great opportunity for undergrads, graduate students and professors to meet and mingle with the rest of the department and the BMES club members.

You can look forward to…

• Free food– hamburgers, veggie burgers, chips, etc
• Soccer– Students vs Professors, anyone?
• Frisbee
• Volleyball

Bring friends, and be ready to make new ones!

Here’s a recap of what we discussed at today’s meeting

–> We decided upon the design below for our T-shirts (with a filled in elephant). Look forward to an email in the next week or so with ordering details

Big thanks to Joan Xu for submitting it!

–> Congratulations to our trifecta of Freshman Representatives: Heather McSherry, Shira Faigel, and Daniella DiPaola!! They will be a welcome addition to the eBoard.

–> Reminder about our BBQ this Friday and the Movie Night next Wednesday; see next posts

We also talked about our schedule going forward, and what the members most wanted to see. Stay tune for information about the Scitech Costume Contest this Halloween, a potential company tour in early November, a tour of the BME facilities at MIT and BU, and information about how to find an internship.

Our next club meeting will be on October 24th, 4:30 in ADSN 210. More info to come.

Residents, neighbors, and friends are invited to celebrate the tenth annual Community Day at Tufts. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the academic quad. BMES will have a booth and need volunteers.

From experience, Tufts Community Day mostly attracts local children, so our activity will be targeted towards them. This year we will be crafting silk cocoon figures, shown below..

We don’t expect anyone to stay the entire day but it would be great if people could volunteer for an hour or so. You can sign up with your name and phone number at this link:

[2012 Tufts Community Day - BMES Booth<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkHbjcl-qGgHdE9CZHFQSGJhaGxkYnlock1YV3JEbnc>]

-Eboard

The Career Fair is right around the corner (Friday 9/28) and and this is a great opportunity for everyone– Freshmen through Seniors, and even Graduates– to talk to company representatives about internship and career opportunities available at the attending companies. Even if you aren’t looking for a job yet, everyone will need a solid resume and the ability to sell yourself– this is a good way to practice before the even more relevant SciTech career fair next Spring.

On Wednesday, 9/26, we will be holding a resume/career fair workshop during our meeting. We hope to have a guest speaker from industry that can talk specifically about what they look for when hiring, and we are creating a packet of additional useful information for building your resume that you can take home.

We hope that this will be a very useful and interesting meeting, and hope to see you all there. Pizza will be served.

-The EBoard

Hi everyone!

Please note the time and location change of our general interest meeting! It will now be at 6:00pm in Scitech, Rm 136 (the big classroom in the middle). Thanks!

Come one and all for our BMES General Interest Meeting!

Add yourself to the FB event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/359300867479771/

Some of you might have made homemade ice cream using plastic bags and ice cubes. BMES is taking it up a notch and making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. We’ll have vanilla and chocolate, and everyone will get a scoop. Bring your friends and faculty. Everyone is welcome (until we run out of liquid nitrogen haha).

At this meeting we will also watch a short video about some research coming from Tufts BME and discuss the plans we have for this upcoming year.