When
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM
Urs Utzinger
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Arizona
"Part 1: BME Academic Program Review and Part 2: Opensource Platform to Measure Physiologic Signals in a Classroom Setting"
Keating 103
Lunch included!
Zoom | Password: BearDown
Abstract: Part 1: The BME department will be undergoing an academic program review on April 21 and 22. Some of the committee's current work will be shown and your questions will be answered.
Part 2: A platform was developed to provide a low-cost alternative for measuring physiological signals. All materials and content presented are open and free to download and replicate. So far 6 different modules exist.
Disclaimer: All items for both part 1 and 2 are a work in progress and your input and critique will shape their outcomes.
Bio: Urs Utzinger received an engineering degree (Dipl. Ing. ETH, 1989, mechanical engineering) and a PhD (Dr. sc. techn. ETH, 1995, biomedical engineering) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich Switzerland. As post-doctoral fellow he joined the laboratory of Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory) at The University of Texas, Austin. In 2001, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona where he is currently an associate professor in biomedical engineering. He also holds appointments in obstetrics and gynecology, optical sciences, electrical and computer engineering and the BIO5 Institute.
From 2012 until end of 2014, Dr. Utzinger served as interim Department Head in Biomedical Engineering when the program grew from 134 to 200 undergraduate students and the first two classes graduated from the program. He currently serves as associate department head of assessment and accreditation.
Dr. Utzinger developed clinical imaging instrumentation to evaluate gynecological and gastrointestinal cancer. Using microscopy techniques he also studied the extra cellular matrix and angiogenesis. Most recently, he developed spectral imaging techniques for the skin. In 2016 Dr. Utzinger developed the sophomore design course for BME undergraduate students where they experience hands-on training on electro mechanical systems. In Spring of 2020 he opened the Salter Medical Device Laboratory which he designed. Dr. Utzinger created and co-taught the first junior year medical devices design course for the laboratory.