Biomedical Engineering Society
UC San Diego’s Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is 1 of the university’s most tightly knit pupil organizations, featuring a large release of bioengineers as well as an fifty-fifty larger release of opportunities. According to BMES 2015 President Jessica Lam, “BMES is a pre-professional organization, geared to create undergraduate bioengineering students for careers inward academia, research, as well as industry. Aside from its pre-professional focus, it encourages bioengineering students to collaborate as well as operate together, piece nonetheless having a picayune flake of fun.”
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| BMES 2014-2015 Group Photo |
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| Lab Expo 2015 |
With over 7 committees, BMES has dissimilar areas of focus, such every bit coordinating
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| Preliminary blueprint of 1 of the Project Teams |
In price of developing to a greater extent than awareness of STEM fields, the annual events Bioengineering Day as well as Translational Medicine Day both serve to educate students as well as guests inward these fields as well as to characteristic electrical flow inquiry beingness done past times graduate students as well as professionals. Both events pick out their ain respective committees every bit well. In particular, Bioengineering Day also provides a “great conduct a opportunity for undergraduate students to beak to the faculty inward a to a greater extent than relaxed environment.” Also, Translational Medicine Day is nonetheless new, every bit the commencement annual consequence took house before this past times May, providing exposure to this thriving biomedical field: a means to dyad the gap betwixt the medical inquiry as well as actual application of such research.
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| Bowling Night with Engineering World Health (EWH) |
What actually brings BMES as well as its members together is the Mentorship Program, led past times the Social Committee. Small groups of 1 upperclassman mentor are matched with a few underclassmen mentees. BMES 2015 VP External Vikash Morar states, “These mentors tin give notice assistance their mentees with planning their classes, picking their professors, getting lab positions, as well as answering whatever other questions that the underclassmen may pick out with bioengineering or academy inward general.” Furthermore, the mentors as well as mentees prepare into friends as well as make to a greater extent than than operate together. For many, BMES has served every bit a minute family, a grouping of people who are guaranteed to “be awake at 4 AM to written report with” as well as who are willing to beak as well as heed for endless hours well-nigh to a greater extent than than only college. “Each private inward the arrangement brings a dissimilar perspective as well as everyone collectively cares well-nigh each other’s successful progression personally, academically, as well as professionally,” according to 2015 VP Finance Anurag Coramutla.
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| One of Outreach Committee's Poster Presentations |
Outside of its ain community, BMES as well as its members are heavily involved inward community service alongside the greater San Diego surface area through the Outreach Committee. This detail grouping implements projects to educate middle as well as high schoolhouse students well-nigh bioengineering, from presentations to featuring hands-on demos. In addition, they pick out plans to create a tutoring programme specifically designed for bioengineers at UC San Diego. BMES also volunteers at major community events, such the Leukemia as well as Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk as well as the San Diego Festival of Science as well as Engineering.
In the words of Lam: “This grouping of people is definitely a forcefulness to endure reckoned with, filled with students who are driven to brand advances inward bioengineering. Without a doubt, BMES is to a greater extent than than only whatever other organization; it’s a unopen knit grouping of brilliantly talented individuals who only desire to brand technology scientific discipline to a greater extent than than only beingness inward a lab or doing research. With the events they pick out pose on, as well as the community that it has built, BMES volition for sure croak on to make greatness through its members.”
NAE Engineering For You (E4U) Video Competition
During this past times schoolhouse year, BMES officers decided to create only about other temporary commission for creating videos, inward detail for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as well as its E4U Video Competition. With their committee, BMES members pick out produced a video solely nether their ain imagination as well as commitment. All components, from scripting to animating, from editing to vocalisation acting, pick out been student-made.
BMES 2015 VP Internal Michelle Ragsac says, “To endure honest, working with the BMES on the animation squad was really tough! Many of us didn’t actually pick out the noesis on the tools needed to make the task as well as hack together a video…But, the sense was rewarding because everybody worked together. I honestly wouldn’t pick out only about of the friends I pick out because of that projection as well as I’m actually glad to pick out participated.”
Last year, BMES won $5000 nether the championship of People’s Choice, as well as they are inward the running for the honor again. To win, they demand the votes, then if y'all would similar to back upwards BMES as well as their video, “Engineering for a Better Future,” similar the video on Youtube. You tin give notice also banking concern check out other nominated videos next the competition’s subject of “highlighting how technology scientific discipline volition create a to a greater extent than sustainable, healthy, secure and/or joyous past times addressing the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering.” Go BMES!
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| Anurag Coramutla with Bioengineering Faculty at Bioengineering Day 2015 Top Row (left to right): MD David A. Gough, MD Peter C. Chen Bottom Row (left to right): Anurag Coramutla, MD Shu Chien, MD Y.C. Fung, MD Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein |
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| BMES's "Pin the Organ on the Body" Game at San Diego Festival of Science as well as Engineering (SDFSE) 2015 From left to right: Swetha Prabhakaran, student, Julie Yip |
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| Junkyard Derby 2015 From left to right: Anurag Coramutla, Neil Jethani |
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| BMES Executive Board 2015-2016 Top Row: Vikash Morar Middle Row (from left to right): Michelle Ragsac, Anurag Coramutla Bottom Row: Jessica Lam |