New Graduate Student Orientation Fall 2006 Welcome Aboard!

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New Graduate Student OrientationFall
2006Welcome Aboard!
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Orientation Schedule

• 915 Continental Breakfast - BME Conference room
• 945 Todd Przybycien BME Department Head
• 1015 BME Staff
• Hilda Diamond Associate Head
• Sandy Brenner Hill Business Manager
• Brendan Kerr Office Coordinator
• 1045 Sanna Gaspard GBMES President other
  officers/buddies?
• 1115 Donna Beck - Engineering and Science
  Library
• 1200 Lunch
• 100 Deanna Matthews - Eberly Center for Teaching
  Excellence
• 130 Jeff Beyer - Counseling Psychological
  Services

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BME Office

• Mr. Brendan Kerr, Office Coordinator
  (bkerr_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
• Mailboxes, appointments, events
• Mrs. Hilda Diamond, Associate Head
  (hd01_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
• Degree progress and records issues
• Course registration issues
• Ms. Sandy Brenner-Hill, Business Manager
  (sb5v_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
• Stipend and tuition issues
• Visa issues
• BME purchasing issues
• Prof. Todd Przybycien, Head (todd_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
• Advisor assignments
• Programmatic issues
• Problem solving
• Prof. Jelena Kovacevic, Graduate Affairs Chair
  (jelenak_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
• Coordination of qualifying exams
• Coordination of grad student reviews
• Degree requirements and petitions
• Problem solving

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Student Introductions/Assignments

• Ph.D. students
• Sasha Bakhru, Johns Hopkins, MS BME Zappe
• Beautia Dew, Cooper Union, BS ChE
  Przybycien/Tilton
• Christopher Highley, Duke, BS BME - DiMartino
• Usha Kupuswamy, RIT, MS Microsystems - Zappe
• Davneet Minhas, Johns Hopkins, BS BME - Riviere
• Scott Parsons, Rensselaer, BS BME Dahl/Islam
• Tao Peng, Tsinghua, BS BME - Murphy

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Department Overview
Bioimaging
Biomaterials
Biomechanics
Molecular Cellular Biotechnology
Medical Robotics
Biomedical Image Signal Informatics
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Molecular Cellular Biotechnology
Carnegie Mellon

• Bruce Armitage (Chem) DNA-small molecule
  interactions, peptide nucleic acids
• Mike Domach (ChE) metabolic engineering, whole
  cell NMR, cell-tracking MEMS sensors
• Steinar Hauan (ChE) bioprocess and MEMS
  biosensor design and optimization
• Todd Przybycien (BME) protein separations,
  formulation, delivery MEMS biosensors
• Jim Schneider (ChE) nucleic acid separation,
  formulation and delivery interfacial
  interactions
• Bob Tilton (BME ChE) protein adsorption
  pharmaceutical dispersions interfacial
  interactions

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Molecular Cellular Biotechnology
Carnegie Mellon

• Jeanne VanBriesen (CEE) biofilm control on
  inplants
• Alan Waggoner (BSC) fluorescence-based
  detection systems for biology and biotechnology

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Biomechanics

• Jim Antaki (BME) artificial heart/ventricular
  assist device design and control, blood flow
  modeling
• Kris Noel Dahl (BME ChE) nuclear mechanics
• Elena DiMartino (ICES) computational fluid and
  solid mechanics, soft tissue mechanical
  characterization
• Ender Finol (ICES) computational fluid
  mechanics, endo vascular grafts for abdominal
  aortic aneurysms
• Phil Leduc (ME) - linking mechanics to
  biochemistry through molecular and cellular
  biomechanics using nanotechnology

Carnegie Mellon
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Bioimaging
Carnegie Mellon

• Chien Ho (BSC) tracking migration of immune
  cells in vivo by magnetic MRI
• Jelena Kovacevic (BME) wavelet andframes-based
  signal and image processing, image informatics
• José Moura (ECE) MRI signal processing
• Bob Murphy (BME BSC) microscopic imaging and
  image analysis for protein localization, image
  informatics
• Rich Stern (ECE) automatic speech recognition
  signal processing in the auditory system

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Bioimaging
Carnegie Mellon

• George Stetten (RI) ultrasonic imaging
• Stefan Zappe (BME) automatedimaging, MEMS
  devices,Drosophila systematics

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Biomaterials

• Jeffrey Hollinger (BME BSC) regenerating bone
  in patients with developmental craniofacial bone
  problems and geriatric patients
• Prashant Kumta (BME MSE) biodegradable
  polymer-ceramic composite scaffolds for bone
  tissue engineering, nanoparticles for gene
  delivery
• Phil Campbell (ICES) growth factor association
  and dissociation with interstitia and proteolytic
  processing under physiological conditions
• Newell Washburn (BME Chem) polymeric scaffold
  development
• Lee Weiss (RI) bone tissue engineering scaffold
  CAD/CAM

Carnegie Mellon
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Medical Robotics
Carnegie Mellon

• Jon Cagan (ME) user-centered design
  computational design
• Takeo Kanade (RI) smart tools to perform
  medical procedures, computer vision
• Kenji Shimada (ME) computer modeling and
  simulation for product design, analysis, and
  manufacturing
• Lee Weiss (RI) computer-aided bone distraction

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New Faculty Arrivals

• Jan 2007BiomechanicsKerem Pekkan (BME)
• Current position Research Assistant Professor at
  the Walter H. Coulter School of Biomedical
  Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Educational background/recognition
• BS/MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Middle East
  Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
• Postdoc, cardiovascular fluid mechanics
  laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Recipient of the Helmut Reul Young Investigators
  Award, May 2005, at the 2nd International
  Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory
  Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary
  Perfusion
• Research Interests cardiovascular biomechanics
• Fluid dynamics of pediatric congenital heart
  defects
• Computer-aided cardiovascular surgical planning
• Device design for pediatric surgical applications

Carnegie Mellon
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M.S. Requirements

• 96 units (3 units 1 credit hour)
• ? 63 units grad level, including
• 3 core BME (take 3 out of 5)
• Physiology
• Bioimaging (either grad or undergrad)
• Biomaterials
• Biomechanics
• Molecular or Cellular Biology (any level 300 and
  above)
• 1 CIT, MSC, CS- ? 600-level (other colleges with
  advisors approval)
• At most 1 non-CMU
• Grad Seminar Course each semester
• ? 24 units grad research
• 42-888 MS Thesis Research
• 42-886 Comprehensive Exam for MS Degree
• Thesis and Oral Defense
• Must have ? 36 units/semester to be full-time

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M.S. Typical Timeline
Carnegie Mellon
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M.S. Defense

• Basis
• An original contribution ( one archival paper)
• knowledge in thesis area
• approach and evaluation of results
• Thesissummary of problem studied, logic of
  approach, results obtained, future opportunities
• Oral defense
• thesis committee
• advisor
• at least two CMU BME faculty
• 30 min oral presentation
• open QA

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Direct Entry (no prior MS) Ph.D. Requirements

• 192 units
• 8 courses total
• 3 core within the first three semesters of
  residence (3 of 5 areas as in M.S.)
• at least 1 BME grad (600 or higher)
• at least 2 CIT, MCS, or CS grad (600 or higher)
  (classes outside these colleges with advisors
  approval)
• at most 2 CIT, MCS, or CS advanced undergraduate
  (300 or higher), classes outside these colleges
  with advisors approval
• at most 2 non-CMU
• 3 semesters of TA-ship, 5 hours/week.
• Must enroll in the Grad Seminar Course each
  semester
• PhD Qual within 3 semesters of residence
• Expectation is that the PhD Proposal be taken by
  the end of the 6th semester in residence and must
  be successfully completed no later than the end
  of the 7th semester. Can be retaken once.
• Thesis and oral defense
• Must have ? 36 units/semester to be full-time

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Advanced Entry (prior MS) Ph.D. Requirements

• 192 units (96 beyond MS)
• 4 courses total
• 3 core courses (3 of 5 areaqs as in M.S.
  petition for exemption on no more than 2)
• the rest CIT, MCS, or CS grad (600 or higher), at
  most 1 advanced undergraduate (300 or higher)
• 3 semesters of TA-ship, 5 hours/week.
• Must enroll in the Grad Seminar Course each
  semester
• PhD Qual within 3 semesters of residence
• PhD Proposal within 3 semesters from successful
  completion of the PhD Qual
• Thesis and oral defense
• Must have ? 36 units/semester to be full-time

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Ph.D. Requirements

• All Ph.D. students complete three, 5-hr TA
  assignments
• Gain exposure to the other side of the desk
• Spread TA load
• Talk with instructor about teaching opportunities
  if interested

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Course Registration

• Initial Scheduling Mrs. Hilda Diamond
• Key Courses
• 42-801 Seminar (every semester)
• 42-702 Advanced Physiology (if no prior
  coursework in physiology)
• 06-608 Safety Issues in Science and Engineering
  Practice (for those whose research will involve
  lab work)
• Complete schedule in consultation with advisor
• On-line registration (OLR) via the
  HUBhttp//www.cmu.edu/hub/hub.html

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Current BME Grad Courses

• Fall
• 42-426 Biosensors and BioMEMS - Zappe
• 42-703 Advanced Bioimaging Kovacevic
• 42-704 Special Topics Graduate Surgery for
  Engineers Seminar - Burgess
• 42-711 Advanced Ceramic and Metallic Biomaterials
  - Kumta
• 42-747 Rehabilitation Engineering Friedman
• Spring - tentative
• 42-502 Special Topics Cellular Biomechanics
  LeDuc
• 42-702 Advanced Physiology Campbell
• 42-710 Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials Washburn
• 42-722 BioProcess Design Przybycien
• 42-723 Biological Processes in Environmental
  Systems VanBriesen
• 42-734 Computational Biology Murphy
• 42-735 Medical Image Analysis - Stetten

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Ph.D. Typical Timeline
Carnegie Mellon
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M.D./Ph.D. Typical Timeline
Carnegie Mellon
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Ph.D. Qualifier

• Basis
• research potential
• communication skills
• general BME knowledge
• knowledge of literature
• approach and evaluation of results
• Written statement of researchTen page (max)
  summary of oral presentation content
• Oral presentation of research
• focused committee of 3 faculty members
• advisor participates as silent observer
• 30 min presentation
• 45-60 min QA

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Ph.D. Qualifier

• Outcomes
• Pass comments
• Retake comments
• Fail comments retake possible, but not
  recommended
• Not a winnowing tool

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Ph.D. Grad Student Review

• Objective assess progress in program
• Basis
• Research activities progress
• Course performance
• TA performance
• Format
• Student prepares one page self-assessment
• Student and advisor discuss self-assessment
• Advisor prepares one-two paragraph feedback
  statement
• Advisor reviews feedback in front of BME faculty,
  incorporates comments
• Statements posted on grad review web site

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Ph.D. Grad Student Review Contd

• Outcomes
• Student in good standing comments
• Student deficient in x comments, one review
  period to address deficiency
• Posted on review web site along with degree
  progress information
• Frequency once a semester

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Ph.D. Proposal

• Basis
• potential for making important, original
  contributions
• feasibility of proposed work
• knowledge in thesis area
• approach and evaluation of results
• Written proposal
• definition of thesis problem, specific aims,
  results to date and plan of attack
• 25 pages in NIH R01 research description
  format
• Oral proposal
• thesis committee
• advisor(s)
• at least two CMU BME faculty
• at least one CMU non-BME faculty
• 45 - 50 min presentation
• open QA

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Ph.D. Defense

• Basis
• original contributions ( 3 or more meaty
  archival papers)
• knowledge in thesis area
• approach and evaluation of results
• Thesissummary of problem studied, logic of
  approach, results obtained, future opportunities
• Oral defense
• thesis committee typically same as Prop Exam
• advisor(s)
• at least two CMU BME faculty
• at least one CMU non-BME faculty
• 45 - 50 min oral presentation
• open QA

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Problem/Conflict Resolution

• Dept Resources
• advisor
• Todd
• Jelena
• GBMES buddy and/or GBMES officers
• University Resources
• Counseling Psychological Services
• Graduate Programs Office Nancy Klancher

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Important Resources

• www.cmu.edu/bme
• www.cmu.edu/myandrew
• BME main office phone [phone]
• bme-faculty_at_lists.andrew.cmu.edu
• bme-grad_at_lists.cmu.edu all of you
• sb5v_at_andrew.cmu.edu X83444 - Sandy
• hd01_at_andrew.cmu.edu X82523 - Hilda
• bkerr_at_andrew.cmu.edu X83955 Brendan
• todd_at_andrew.cmu.edu X83857 Todd

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Pay Day is the Last Working Day of the Month

• Make sure you have filled out an I-9
• Get Direct Deposit
• Checks/Advices will be in DH 2100 after 12 noon
• During the academic year (Sept-May) your check
  will include tuition so it can be deducted
• International students must register with OIE
• 3rd floor of Warner Hall
• Fees will be deducted from your stipend
• Sandy X83444, sb5v_at_andrew.cmu.edu

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Welcome Packets

• Graduate Handbook Information
• Registration Instructions
• Department Directory
• Enrollment Service Counselors
• Grad Student Orientation Schedule
• Student Health Services
• Housing and Dining Services
• Health Insurance Information
• Pittsburgh Walking Map
• Rich/Poor Mans Guide to Pittsburgh
• Graduate Peer Mentors