From: Chris Kirtley (kirtleymd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2002-03-06 15:02:59
Dear Yaniv,
Nice to hear from you. I wouldn't get too excited
about my students - the level is pretty poor, to be
honest. One of the reasons I'm taking over
instrumentation is because I was so disappointed with
their knowledge of electronics by the time they
graduate. The problem seems to be that they get very
little practical experience - just a bit of
breadboarding. I'm aiming to change that, and as I say
we're purchasing a T-Tech PCB mill so that they can
design and fabricate their own boards. I think this is
important so that they get a real feeling of making a
device properly.
Would you believe that I made my first EEG more than
25 years ago! I was a schoolkid and used the design
from Practical Electronics (I think that might be a UK
magazine), which was published a few years previously.
It worked quite well - I used it for alpha and theta
wave training.
I think one of the nice things about getting the
students to make something like this is that they will
learn most of the important skills and considerations
in designing a lot of biomedical devices - e.g. noise,
filtering, amplification, safety, reliability, etc.
What were you wanting regarding legal services? We do
have a Tech Transfer guy who I have used previously
for a patent application
<http://engineering.cua.edu/biomedical/faculty/kirtley/insole>
- that the sort of thing you were meaning?
Chris
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Dr. Chris Kirtley MD PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064
Tel. 202-319-6247, fax 202-319-4287
Email: kirtley_at_cua.edu
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