VOLUME IV ISSUE 4 JANUARY 2012
PRE-HEALTH
DESIGN
SPOTLIGHT
Reasons to take a transition year and precautions to remember
Adding Professional Manufacturing Details and drawing efficiently
Words from the brainchild of BROS and ways to get involved on campus
Pioneer A WALLACE H. COULTER PRODUCTION
The Past, The Present and The Future of BME History of BME and the State of it at Georgia Tech by Harish Srinimukesh—Undergraduate Student in the Coulter Department
McIntire is the chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. (Photo: William Sessions)
LARRY MCINTIRE, Wallace H. Coulter Chair and Professor, spoke to students on November 3, 2011 regarding the past, present, and future of the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech. With ‘Wallace H. Coulter’ referenced everywhere in BME, where did it actually come from? As a student studying electronics at Tech in the early 1930s, Wallace Coulter spent two years at Tech before going on to found Coulter Corporation based on his influential work in developing the industrial fine particle counting principle referred to as the Coulter Principle. The department itself was founded back in 1997 by Don Giddens, Dean Emeritus and Aerospace Engineering Professor, who served as Dean of Engineering up until July 1, 2011. Initially an aerospace professor who moved to Johns Hopkins University to serve as Dean of Engineering in 1992, Giddens was recruited back to Atlanta by the Head of the Emory Health Science Center, Michael Johns, M.D., and the Provost at Georgia Tech to serve as department chair of biomedical engineering. The biomedical engineering program initially maintained a cap for the number of students entering the department with specific GPA requirements and did not have the first students come in until Spring 2001. Fall 2001… Continued on page 4
Resources at the Library Everything You Need to Conquer This Semester by Rachel Stewart—Undergraduate Student in the Coulter Department WITH THE START OF THE NEW YEAR, new classes bring a cornucopia of projects and papers, like late Christmas gifts that do not come with gift receipts. The mere thought is enough to drive an engineering student to constant daydreams of Spring Break. But be brave! Biomedical engineers at Georgia Tech have a friend in the halls of the library, a guide who can teach the art of finding one’s way amongst the towers of inscrutable information: Lori Critz, the biomedical engineering subject librarian. Critz has all the skills of a librarian, such as the mastery of EndNote, a bibliography management software. On top of this, she also has a background in microbiology and a formidable knowledge of biomedical engineering. She can be reached at any time by email (lori.critz@library.gatech.edu) and is glad... Continued on page 11
Many resources are available to students. (Photo: William Sessions)