BME Annual Report

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATION
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2020

Department Vision

Biomedical Engineering Department aims

• To be recognized by the society at large as an excellent department, offering quality higher
education in Biomedical Engineering and thereby enable the graduates to serve and strengthen the
Indian healthcare sector and excel at an international level

Department Mission

• Infuse critical thinking skills by providing strong foundation which enables them for continuing
education

• Educate the students with state of the art cutting edge technology to compete in global arena

• Create research environment in the state-of-the-art biomedical engineering with the support of
well experienced and respected faculty

Program Educational Objectives

Our Graduates will be

1. Successful Entrepreneur, Employed in Biomedical Engineering related fields or in other career
fields in industry, government organizations, Hospitals or academe

2. Able to continue to enhance their professional skills in their chosen profession by participating in
professional organizations, completing additional college courses or shot time industry
courses(professional)

3. Be an active members to serve the society

History

Vel Tech University is one of the few Institutes offering Biomedical Engineering in Tamilnadu, with an
immense aim of providing a different learning environment to inculcate out of the box thinking. The
department of Biomedical Engineering was established in the year 2017 under the school of Electrical and
Communication of Engineering with an aim to connect engineering and biology. True to its mission of
merging engineering with science and medicine the department is propelling itself to become the major
educator in Biomedical Instrumentation and allied engineering by employing diverse workforce. Over the
period of three years, the department has raised to the standards of world class laboratories by setting up
Brain Computer Interface(BCI) from open BCI. The department introduced a major pedagogical shift by
incorporating integrated lab courses in the curriculum with the motive of giving learn by doing experience
to the students.

Dr.N.M.Masoodhu Banu professor and head of the department has 2 decades of teaching experience and
close to 10 years of industryexperience in the field of digital signal processing and embedded programing.
The department has faculty strength of 10 and total of 5 doctorates in diverse research field which is
essential for the interdisciplinary nature of bio medical engineering.

1. Faculty and Students achievement

a. Our faculty and students are recognized for their achievement throughout the year both
inter and intra college competitions. At the event “India Covid Move- Online Hackathon
Challenge Edition 2” conducted by IEEE section, Assistant professor Karthik Raj V has been
awarded with second prize.

India Covid Move- online Hackathon Challenge Edition 2

b. At the India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2019 (IICDC) conducted by Texas Instruments
three teams from undergraduate Biomedical Engineering mentored by three different faculty
members have been screened for quarterfinal phase and got their Texas Instruments MSP430
boards and the required additional component from Texas free of cost.

S.No Student Team Project Mentor Project Title
1. Name Wearable and Modular
G. S. Shrinidhi Ms. Sunaina Mariam Functional near
2. D. Perumal Cherian infrared spectroscopy
M. Praveen Kumar
3. R. BalaKrishnah Dr. Thiyam Watchdog Multiple
K. Karthick DeepaBeeta Physiological System
M. Subhiksha
Minhajul Ahmed, Dr.N.M.Masoodhu Low Cost BCI headset
Jeffery Calwin, Banu
Sushanto Das,
MD.Azaharuddin
Ansari,
SwetaJha,
Carlin Sagunthala
Steve, SnehaSaji,
Sushmita,
RenieMalvina, Lahun

Wearable and Modular Functional near infrared spectroscopy

Watchdog Multiple Physiological System

c. Uzbek and multidisciplinary interest participated in Indian Karting Championship 2019 and won
overall runners up in 150CC category.

IKC Team at Indoor 2020

2. Research and Faculty Activities
The department is strongly focused on research with activities managed by department of research.Young
faculties are motivated to do research by providing seed funding from the Institute. In addition, after
thorough scrutinizing by external experts from IITs and NITs, some projects areapproved to go for DST
and other government funding agencies. Also the faculty strives hard to publish papers each year to
strengthen their competency in their own field

Research activities at the department has three main area

1. Biomaterials and Sensors
2. Brain Computer Interface applications
3. Digital Medical Instruments

a. Proposals Applied

S. Name of the Title of the project Organization Month/Year Status
No. investigator submitted

External Funding Development of a highly Department of August 2020 Sanctioned
1 Dr. A. Gowri sensitive technique for Biotechnology (DBT)
specific detection of
pesticidal residues and
heavy metals in crude
herbal drugs and herbal
products

Internally Funded Projects

2 Dr. Thiyam Multiclass motor imagery Internal seed Scheme, Dec 2019 Accepted
DeepaBeeta EEG signals classification Veltech Rangarajan Dec 2019 Accepted
for Brain Computer Dr. Sagunthala R& D
interfacing systems institute of Science

3 Dr. G Saranya Compressed sensing using and Technology
optimization techniques
Internal seed Scheme,
Veltech Rangarajan
Dr. Sagunthala R& D
institute of Science

and Technology

b. On-Going Projects

S.NO Name of the investigator Title of the project Organization submitted
1 1. Dr. Masoodhu Banu Universal Asynchronous BCI assisted Yet to submit
(Principal Investigator) wheelchair based on pseudo sequence
2 2. Dr. Th. DeepaBeeta Yet to submit
(Co-PI) Development of Superparamagnetic Spinel
Dr. Ganeshlenin K

Ferrite (SSF) based Stimuli Responsive

Magnetic-Polymeric Nanoplatforms

(SRMPNs) for Combined Cancer

Therapeutics

c. Research publications-(2019-20)

S.No Author and Title Name of the Year of
1 Journal/Conference publication
2 Prasanna Ram, N.M.Masoodhu Banu, Effect of copper Radioelectronics and 2019
3 and graphene material on bow-tie structured antenna for Communications 2020
1.2 GHz application Systems 2020
4 N.M.Masoodhu Banu, Merline A, Sujithra T, PO Journal of Engineering
5 Assessment and Attainment through POGIL Based Education 2019
Classes Transformation 2019
6 M. Brindha, R. Shelishiyah, VasanthaValli, Molecular 2020 IEEE sixth
7 Docking Analysis of CFTR Inhibitors International 2019
Conference on 2020
8 Ganeshlenin Kandasamy, Recent advancements in Biosignals, Images and
manganite perovskites and spinel ferrite-based magnetic Instrumentation 2019
9 nanoparticles for biomedical theranostic applications (ICBSII2020)
10 Ganeshlenin Kandasamy, AtulSudame, DipakMaity, Nanotechnology 2019
11 ShaliniSoni, KumariSushmita, Naga Suresh Veerapu, 2019
Suryasarathi Bose, and C.V. Tomy, Multifunctional Journal of Molecular 2020
magnetic-polymeric nanoparticles based ferrofluids for Liquids
multi-modal in vitro cancer treatment using
thermotherapy and chemotherapy International Journal of
Saranya G, An efficiet Data Hiding Method in Images

Electrical and

Computer Engineering

ArunkumarKathiravan, Analyst

AnnasamyGowri,VenkatesanSrinivasan, Trevor A.

Smith, MuthupandianAshokkumar and

MariadossAshaJhonsi, A simple and ubiquitous device

for picric acid detection in latent fingerprints using

carbon dots

ArunkumarKathiravan, Analytical Chemistry

AnnasamyGowri,ThemmilaKhamrang, MadhuDeepan

Kumar, NamasivayamDhenadhayalan, King-Chuen Lin,

MarappanVelusamy, and MadhavanJaccob, Pyrene-

Based Chemosensor for Picric Acid - Fundamentals to

Smartphone Device Design

AnnasamyGowri,RajendranVignesh, SpectrochimicaActa

ArunkumarKathiravan, Anthracene based AIEgen for Part A: Molecular and

picric acid detection in real water samples Biomolecular

Spectroscopy

AnnasamyGowri, VijayakumarVeeraragavan, Chemical Physics

MurugavelKathiresan, ArunkumarKathiravan, A pyrene Letters

based colorimetric chemosensor for CO2 gas detection

triggered by fluoride ion

S VennilaPreethi, Sunaina M Cherian, Two layer International Journal of
Pharmaceutical
model to simulate trans dermal drug delivery for skin Sciences And Research

psoriasis

d. Research Index and Reviewers

Our faculty academic research performance is measured in two ways, by way of research index and
their role as reviewers or editors in journals. The entire faculty in the department has registered for
Google scholar citation index and regularly updating their publication outcomes. According to the
Google scholar citation index profile our department h index and i10 indexes are 3 and 2 respectively.
Their role as reviewer in popular Scopus or SCI indexed journals can be seen in their Publons profile.

S.No Name of the Faculty PublonsLink
1 Dr.N.M.Masoodhu Banu https://publons.com/researcher/1014773/nmmasoodhu-
banu/
2 Dr.G.Saranya
3 Dr.ThiyamDeepaBeeta https://publons.com/researcher/2064792/saranya-g/
https://publons.com/researcher/3850939/deepa-beeta-
4 Dr.Ganeshlenin Kandasamy thiyam/
https://publons.com/researcher/1585999/ganeshlenin-
kandasamy/

3 Curriculum Improvement

Being the new department at Vel Tech, the department has done excellent work in curriculum design.
While the curriculum is framed in accordance with the credit system required by the Institution, our
diverse field expertise faculty and our Board of Studies (BoS) member from premier Institutions have
together have designed fully integrated laboratory based courses and courses based on new in the
Biomedical industry. This gives the student confidence to participate in project expos conducted by
other Institutions and Industry and bring laurels

Our current BoS member are as follows:

S.No Name of the Bos member Institution/Industry
1 Dr.MohanRaghavan IIIT Hyderabad
2 Dr.Ashutosh IIIT Kancheepuram
3 Mr. Venkatraman VC, Biovision

4. Infrastructure

The department has a well-established infrastructure to cater to the need of the curriculum and also to
become industry ready engineers. The laboratories are housed with both software and hardware to
enable the students to start with simulation first and then to go for realization as a product

 Brain Computer Interface Laboratory
 Digital Signal processing Laboratory
 Medical Image processing Laboratory
 Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory
 National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Laboratory

 Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory
 Analog and Integrated Circuits Laboratory

Brain Computer Interface Laboratory

Biomedical Instrumentation Lab

Analog and Integrated Circuits LaboratoryMedical Image processing Laboratory

5. Student Activities and visits
Workshops are being conducted regularly to promote students discussion on different areas with
experts from premier institution.Also, students are taken to nearby multispecialty hospitals and
Industry Exhibition to get awareness on real life scenario of using medical equipment and new
equipment in the market

a. Workshop Conducted Resource Person Number of Date
Mr T AnathaVelavan
S.No. Workshop Name Participants
1. DSP Processor Hands on
62 14-09-2019

Students at DSP Hands-on Workshop Vel Tech

b. Event Visited

S. No. Event Name Location Number of Date
1. Medicall- 2019 participants 27.7.2019
Chennai Trade 48

Centre-

Nandambakkam

Students at Medicall, Nandambakkam

c. Student Technical Activities

Students are encouraged to do workshops and courses outside of the organization in order to build
networking among students as well as improve their knowledge. Due to COVID pandemic
students have attended many webinars conducted by other Institutions and is listed in Annexure I

Student Praveen at VISAI project expo at Vel Tech

d. Student Extracurricular Activities

Students are motivated to do participate in activities apart from their curriculum and the list of
activities participated is given in the below table.

Student Extracurricular Activities

S.No VTU Name Event Organised By Date of The
Numbe Event
r

1 10737 SHEHIN Football match Vel Tech Rangarajan 26/02/2020
SHAJAHA Dr.Sagunthala R & D
N Institute of Science
and Technology

2 10364 JAYANTH Cycling fitness Uzhavan sports arena 31/07/2020

V challenge

Cycling(organ donar JCI CLUB 13/08/2020
ride)

Virtual ride event Uzhavan sports arena 1/08/2020

3 10493 MD.AZAH 1st Last Square Chess Last Square Chess 14/07/2020
ARUDDIN Academy Rapid & Academy(LSCA)
ANSARI Blitz District Level
Open & Children

Chess Tournament –

Student Extracurricular Activities

4 10523 AKASH.D 100 and1500-meter VelTech Rangarajan 5/3/2020

RUNNING Dr.Sagunthala R & D

Institute of Science

and Technology

5 10531 RENIE book review-Wonder Vel Tech Rangarajan MARCH-

MELVINIA Wisdom Dr.Sagunthala R& D APRIL 2019

BASAIAW Institute of Science

MOIT and Technology

MD.Azarudeen Ansari at 1st and last square Chess Academy Rapid & Blitz district level open and Children chess
tournament 2019

Jayanth at Gift an organ campaign

6. StaffActivities

Faculty is regularly encouraged to attend Faculty Development Program (FDP) to update themselves
in the era of fast development particularly in the field of Biomedical Engineering, education and
pedagogy. Due to COVID pandemic, this academic year faculty attended many programs online (a
total of 98) and the list is given in Annexure-II. In the reverse way some faculty are invited for either
a webinar delivery or FDP on topics of their specialization competency

a. Invited Talks

S.No. Name of the faculty Name of the Institution in which Topic & Date
1 Dr.N.M.Masoodhu Banu lecture delivered
2 Dr.N.M.Masoodhu Banu Sethu Institute of Technology Brain Computer
Kariapatti
K.L.N College of Engineering Interface (06/08/2020)
Pottapalayam, Sivaganga
DSP Processor

Architecture and

programming (2019)

b. FDP Conducted by the department

The department usually conducts faculty development program for outside faculty using the
expertise available within the department and from premier institutions. This year due to COVID
pandemic, webinars were conducted inviting the industry persons and the list is given in below
table

S.No. Topic Resource Person Number of Date
1. From neuroscience to Participants 12.7.2020
product commercialization Dr. Dhanush R, Research
2. 56 17.7.2020
Laboratory Instruments and Associate III, Biomedical
Career Opportunities 36
Division, Department of

Applied Mechanics, IIT,

Madras

Mr. SHAHUL MOIDEEN,

Technical Service

Specialist, Abbott

Diagnostic division, Oman

3. Importance of Ultrasound in Mr. KailashSreekandan, 86 17.7.2020

Healthcare Ultrasound Business Head
– Gulf, Jordan & Lebanon,

Siemens Healthineers,

UAE

7. External Relations

Department of Biomedical Engineering aims to produce work ready engineering graduates to serve
the health sector industry and allied. Hence we constantly strive to receive feedback from our

advisory committee members about the future employer expectations. Accordingly to bridge the gap
between industry expectation and department learning outcomes we continuously invite experts both
from Industry and abroad.

International and Industry program conducted

S. No Course name & Course code Speaker Date of the course Total
1 number
1157BM902-Plant Prof. Takashi Watanabe January 27-29, 2020 of hours
2 Prof.RajuAedla June 27- 29,2019 15
Biodiversity, (Kumamoto University,
Japan) 15
Bio prospecting and the
Dr.ArvindChandrasekar
Sustainable Development North Carolina A&T
State University, USA
Goals (SDGs)

1157BM901-Fundamentals of

BioMEMS and Microfluidics

Dr. Aravindan distributing the certificates at Vel Tech

Plant Biodiversity, Bio prospecting and the Sustainable Development Goals

Annexure I

Student Technical Activities

S.No VTU NO Students Name Name of Webinar Webinar organized
1 10364 JAYANTH.V Institution
2 10446 HABIN N M R Webinar on "Filing Quality
Patent" Karunya Deemed University
3 10493 AZAHARUDDIN Manufacturing of Karunya Deemed University
ANSARI Biopharmacetutical Drugs -
Current State and Future Karunya Deemed university
Machine Learning Concept: Karunya Deemed university
Overview
Biomedical product design and
start up challenges

Role of Imaging system in IEEE madras section
Sathyabhama
medical diagnosis Drager
Karunya Deemed University
Medical Oxygenator

Concentration

Knowing your anaesthesia

machine

4. 10531 RENIE MELVINIA Post covid challenges in
BASAIAWMOIT Biomedical technology and
scope for entrepreneurship

Machine learning Concept and Karunya Deemed University
overview Mindray healthcare
Impact of Biomedical
opportunities due to COVID

Role of Biomedical Engg in Kings Engg College
design of hospital

Modelling and simulation in Karunya Deemed University
Biomechanics systems

5 10571 SNEHA SAJI Career building as a biomedical ACS college of Engineering
engineer
6 10737 SHEHIN Karunya Deemed University
SHAJAHAN Manufacturing of
Biopharmaceutical Drugs - Bannari Amman Inst. of
7 10804 N.EZHILARASI Current State and Future Technology
Brain Network problem of Udaya School of Engineering
Human MEG
Rajiv Gandhi College of
Calibration and testingof Engineering
Medical equipments

career opportunities in health
care Industry

Nano Biosensors for biomedical Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.

and agriculture Sagunthala R&D Institute of

Science & Technology

Student Technical Activities

8. 10843 STEVESHIBU Career building as a biomedical ACS college of Engineering
CHEMPOLIL engineer

Machine Learning Concept: Karunya Deemed to be
Overview university

9. 10852 M.SUBHALAKSHMI Role of Biomedical Engineers in Kings College ofEngineering
design of hospitals and their
services

10. 10878 LASNGWHUN Machine Learning Concept: Karunya Deemed to be
MAWBLEI Overview university

Biomedical product design and Karunya Deemed to be

start up challenges university

Modelling and simulation Karunya Deemed to be
techniques in biomechanics university

Role of Biomedical Engg in Kings Engg. college
designing hospital

Role of Imaging system in IEEE madras section
medical diagnosis

11. 8902 KASIRAJA Career opportunities in Rajiv Gandhi college of
healhcare Engineering
12 9290 EDAGOTTU Medical oxygen concentrator AISSMS institute of
SUSMITHA information technology
Webinar – Career Building as
13 9540 LAKSHMANAN Biomedical Engineer ACS college of engineering
MANJU SRI
Webinar – Machine learning Karunyadeemed university
14 9769 JAGANRAJ G concepts: Overview
Nano Biosensors for biomedical Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.
15 9979 E.MONISHA and agriculture Sagunthala R&D Institute of
Science & Technology
Recent developments in metals Karunya University
and ceramics in
orthopaedicimplants GRT institute of engineering
Medical coding opportunities and technology
Kings Engineering College
Role of biomedical engineers in
design of hospitals and their
services

Frugal innovation in biomedical Dr. NGP Institiute of

engineering Technology

Student Technical Activities Careers in Cloud technology Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.
Sagunthala R&D Institute of
16 11159 P.Pavithra Android mobile application Science & Technology
development & Mobile software Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.
17 11195 R.BalaKrishnah testing Sagunthala R&D Institute of
18 11687 G.S.Shrinidhi Science & Technology
19 11688 Sri Reka .T M
Virtual conduct of analysis of SRM (Ramapuram)
20 12855 Vidhyadharshini.R electric circuit lab

21 12264 Rajasekar Intellecutal property rights karunya university
22 12277 M.sabithaprabha
23 13131 R Robert Aravindh Introduction to internet of things SRM Vadapalani

Intellecutal property rights karunya university

Introduction to internet of things SRM Vadapalani

How to use time efficiently as a Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.

college student for career Sagunthala R&D Institute of

success Science & Technology

Modelling and simulation karunya university
techniques in biomedical Global Mantra our health
systems

Medical Record

UltrasoundicFetal Mahenra Institute
Biomedical Product Design oftechnology
Essence of biomedical Engineer karunya Deemed University

SKR engineering college

Modelling and simulation karunya Deemed University
techniques in biomedical
systems Karunya Deemed University
Machine Learning Karunya Deemed University
Karunya Deemed University
Industrial Automation
Industrial Automation.

Annexure-II

i. Faculty Development Program attended

S.No Name of Faculty Name of FDP Date of FDP Institution
(From Date To

Date)

Medical Image Processing 19/05/2020 to Kalasalingam Academy of

25/05/2020 Research and Education

Preparing for NBA

Accreditation with a case stud of

1 Dr. Thiyam course and Program Outcomes 28/05/2020 to IQAC of AISSMS IOIT,
DeepaBeeta Pune
Attainment 30/05/2020
Sathyabama Institute of
Health care and Clinical 4/6/2020 to Science and Technology
Research 10/6/2020

Get ready for AI with Matlab 18/6/2020 to Sai Ram Engineering
College
and Simulink 20/6/2020

2 Dr. G Saranya Preparing for NBA 28/05/2020 to IQAC of AISSMS IOIT,
Accreditation with a case study 30/05/2020 Pune
of course and Program
Outcomes Attainment 4/6/2020 to Sathyabama Institute of
10/6/2020 Science and Technology
Health care and Clinical
Research

Get ready for Ai with Matlab 18/6/2020 to Sai Ram Engineering
and Simulink 20/6/2020 College

AI and IoT for Medical 01.06.2020 to GMR Institute of
Applications
03.06.2020 Technology

Artificial Intelligence in 08.07.2020 to KarpagaVinayaga College
Healthcare Sector 10.07.2020 of Engineering and
Technology

E-content Development for 23.05.2020 KarpagaVinayaga College
Mr. V Karthik Raj Higher Education of Engineering and
Technology

Get Ready for AI with Matlab 18.06.2020 to Sri Sai Ram Engineering

and Simulink 20.06.2020 College

3 25.05.2020 to KarpagaVinayaga College
LaTeX 31.05.2020 of Engineering and
Technology

Learning through Gamification 30.04.2020 PSNA College of
Engineering and Tech

Machine learning techniques for

brain computer interface 30.07.2020 to Karunya institute of
technology and science
applications 01.08.2020

Preparing for NBA

Accreditation with a Case Study

of Course and Program 28.05.2020 to AISSMS Institute of
Information Technology
Outcomes Attainment 30.05.2020

Role of Robotics and AI during VELS Institute of Science,
Technology & Advanced
COVID-19 03.05.2020 Studies

Faculty Development Program attended

4 Ms.Sunaina Get Ready for AI with Matlab 18.06.2020 to Sai Ram Engineering
Mariam Cherian and Simulink 20.06.2020 College

5 Mrs.Dhana Sony Medical Image Processing 19.05.2020 to Kalasalingam Academy of
C
25.05.2020 Research Education

Health care and Clinical 4/6/2020 to Sathyabama Institute of
Research 10/6/2020 Science and Technology

6 Ms.Shelishiyah Get ready for Ai with Matlab 18/6/2020 to Sai Ram Engineering
Raymond and Simulink 20/6/2020 College

Emerging Trends in Biomedical

Engineering 10/6/2020 to Kalasalingam Academy of
Research and Education
16/6/2020

ii Online Courses completed by Faculty (Coursera Platform)

A total of 37 online courses are completed by the department faculties in the coursera platform

S.No Faculty Name Name of Online Course Completed
1 Dr. N.M.Masoodhu banu Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
2 Dr. Thiyam DeepaBeeta RNN
Introduction to Machine Learning
3 Dr. G Saranya Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with python)
4 Ms. Shelishiyah Raymond Introduction to Neurohacking in R
The Data Science of Health Informatics
5 Mr. A B S K Neural networks and Deep Learning
PadmanabhaSarma Neural networks and Deep Learning
Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
6 Ms. Sunaina Mariam Cherian The Brain and Space
Multiple Linear Regression with scikit-learn
Image Understanding with TensorFlow on GCP
Introduction to Machine Learning
Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
Programming for Everybody - Python

Online Courses completed by Faculty

MRI Fundamentals

AI for Everyone

Life, Health and Radiation

Python for everybody

7 Mr. V Karthik Raj Python data structure
Using Python to Access Web Data

Using Databases with Python

Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with
Python

8 Mrs. Dhana Sony C Medical Applications of Particle Accelerators
9 Dr. K. Ganeshlenin Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
MRI Fundamentals
Life, Health and Radiation
Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
Biology of Cancer
AI for Everyone
Python - Programming for Everybody
Python Data Structures
Python to Access Web Data
Using Databases with Python
Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with
Python