ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS, KPR Institute Engineering and Technology, Autonomous Engineering Institution, Coimbatore, India

Workshop on "Electronic system design for Biomedical Engineers"
With this workshop, the students were able to understand the basics of a system and its components.
The students simulated simple designs using online tools such as TinkerCAD and Wokwi.

On 17/02/23, the department of Biomedical Engineering organized a workshop on "Electronic system design for Biomedical Engineers" as a part of FIESTAa 23. The participants were restricted to 20. The event began at 9.00 AM in the morning in the Medical Data Analytics laboratory. The event started with an introduction to microcontrollers and microprocessors. Ms Joselyne Sneka I T III BME explained the concepts. Then Ms Kowshika R III BME demonstrated an experiment using Arduino, Servo motor and PIR sensor. Mr Saalih Sulthan S II BME and Ms Varnika M II BME simulated the same experiment using TinkerCAD. Then Mr Vishnu K III BME and Ms Joselyne Sneka III BME demonstrated another experiment using ESP32 on board and on the simulator Wokwi as well. After the demonstrations, the participants were given space to simulate their own models. The participants were given small tasks and the student coordinators guided them through the practice session in completing their tasks. The doubts were cleared then and there. Later the faculty Coordinator Dr A Allwyn Gnanadas addressed the participants sharing the importance of electronic system design. He showed them various microcontroller boards starting from 16MHz fast controllers to 1.4GHz fast controllers. All the possible single core, dual-core processing capabilities and their need were discussed. The professor also shared the options and various protocols that are available with the respective boards and shared how these features enable IoT in medical field. finally, the session ended with a Question answer session followed by a feedback session.