November Event
Thomas Amlee briefly spoke about the upcoming IEEE Engineer in Residence (EiR) volunteer program, launching in early 2017. EiR brings engineer volunteers to UT Dallas to share industry knowledge and experience with students. Volunteers hold “office hours” for at least 6 hours a month to mentor engineering and computer science students by providing technical advice, career guidance, and opportunities to work on projects. For questions about the program, you can email eir@utdallas.edu. To become an Engineer in Resident Volunteer, you can sign up at https://goo.gl/forms/4RmVR1aqjB076ynV2
Iram Hasan briefly spoke about the UTDesign Capstone program, which brings the real-world technical projects of your business to UTD senior engineering students’ for their final projects. Each UTDesign team consists of ~ 4-6 senior students working on your proposed project. Students work an average of ~8 hours a week for 1 or 2 semesters. The cost is ~$10k or $15k. UTDesign teams are available for computer science/electrical engineering/biomedical engineering projects starting in January, 2017. For more information, see the
website or
email Iram Hasan.
The keynote speaker was
Shalini Prasad who spoke about wearable sensor systems for glucose, cortisol, and alcohol consumption monitoring from sweat. The glucose monitoring aspects were recently featured. She started the discussion with some deficiencies in optical detection, such as selectivity and quantifying. She also spoke of the necessary sensitivity, with sample sweat volumes being in monitoring and in the range of a microliter and molecule concentrations in the range of microliters per milliliter. She also spoke about measuring metabolites instead of directly measuring glucose, cortisol, or alcohol in order to minimize interference. Some relevant publications from the lab are:
Wearable cortisol biosensor (Flexible nanoporous tunable electrical double layer biosensors for sweat diagnostics)
Wearable alcohol lifestyle monitoring biosensor ( Wearable biochemical sensor for monitoring alcohol consumption lifestyle … )
Wearable cardiovascular health monitor ( Ultrasensitive and low-volume point-of-care diagnostics on flexible strips … )
Wearable glucose biosensor ( Lancet-free and label-free diagnostics of glucose in sweat … )