BMES-UW

Congratulations on finishing the year in one piece.  There were no elections this year because there was only one person interested in each position, therefore without further interruption and wait, I would like to congratulate next year’s BMES officers:

President:  Jason Padvorac

VPres: Jesse Burk-Rafel

Secretary: Jeremy Hua

Treasurer 1: Kaitlin Thompson

Treasurer 2: Risa VanAntwerp

Medical Chair: Ngoc Nguyen

Academic Chair: Alec Nielsen

Industry Chair: Stanley Gu

MUST: Fareed Faghih

Newsletter: Phelan Trinh

Publicist: Emi Tokuda

Webmaster: Xiaohai (David) Zhang

Outreach Chair: Mark Sena

GSA: Erik Feest

USA: Karin Golob

http://www.kotisdesign.com/uwbioengineering

Order by 11:59 pm, Thursday, 5/29/2008

Please submit your ideas for the 2008 BMES Clothing line at this Catalyst GoPost (UW NetID login required).

Once we have some good submissions, BMES members will vote for their favorite design. The creator of the selected design will win $70, and all of the clothing and gear will have that logo on it!

For the 2008 UW career discovery week…BMES is organizing a:

bioengineering career panel
on     29th January, Tuesday.
In      Foege N130A
from  3:30-5:00pm

The panel will be hosted by our Academic Counselor, Kelli Jayn Nichols and will feature the following bioengineers in Industry:
– Dean Pettit
Executive Director of Process and Product Development at Amgen Washington Site
– Brian Albarran
Scientist II, Process Development at Trubion Pharmaceuticals.
– Amy Peterson
Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Northstar Neuroscience
– Pierre D. Mourad
Co-Founder and Consulting Scientist of Ultreo

It will be a great insight for all of you who are planning to go into industry and a good session for everyone else who wants to know about the field. There is absolutely no substitute for talking to people who actually work in fields that interest you.  They have “been there, done that,” and can give you the very BEST advice about how to pursue a successful career. Career Discovery Week happens only once a year - don’t miss it!!

For times, locations, and guest speaker details for all other events this week, visit the CDW08 web site!
http://depts.washington.edu/careerwk/index.php

Food and pop will be provided for all.

There is an excellent on-site Outreach event event in January / February. We can help with the Youth Take Heart program and teach parents and students about BioE while doing hands on activities! There are 3 sessions per day about 1 hour each, and you can come to one or more, just let me know if you’re interested and I’ll save you a spot.

When:      Monday, January 28th and Monday, February 4th
Where:     Foege Conference Room (N130)
Who:         50 parents and students (each day)

Schedule:
8:30 - 9:45    BioE Power Point with finger activity
12:30 - 1:30   Help students and their parents design an experiment to test the properties of a material, to see if it would make a good artificial blood vessel
1:30 - 2:15    Help students and parents analyze their experiments, and relate it to the work of real bioengineers.

UW BMES activities are planned and coordinated by officers and their committees. Currently, several officers are forming committees. This is your chance to help realize activities that you want to see happen and gain leadership experience in the process. The following blurbs were submitted by officers currently forming committees. Please contact them to get involved!

Kevin Seals, Medical Chair:

The medical committee of BMES is looking for dedicated individuals to help plan a medically themed meeting, and to pursue some larger (and currently undetermined) project. Planning the meeting will involve contacting and scheduling a speaker from the medical community, which presents a nice networking opportunity. Some options for the “larger project” include creating a physician shadowing service for our members, a BMES physician brown bag lunch series — anything that creates a promising new opportunity for members interested in health care.

Zak Kenyon, Academic Chair:

I will be organizing a number of academic speakers for the BMES general meetings. If anyone knows of a professor or researcher who would like to come and present their work at a BMES meeting please let me know. I also hope to organize a graduate student panel to give out some tips and tricks for applying to graduate school. Other than that I am open to ideas any of you might have for making this BioE experience a little better. I don’t plan on forming an official committee unless I get flooded with good ideas for events so like I said earlier contact me if you’ve got some ideas.

Ashwini Pai, Industry Committee

We are going to be focusing on providing ample industry opportunities for BioE students in industry. Starting form doing company visits to having industry mixers and panels. The committee will work as an out-reach program for students wanting to go to industry by providing resources, networking opportunities and connections to make the transition from school to industry. The ideas we have so far for this year (apart form various speakers from industry) are:

Autumn - company visit
Winter - industry panel, career and internship workshops
Spring - industry mixer.

Other ideas/help to make these events happen (and gain opportunities to network in industry) are welcome.

Contact: Ashwini Pai

All Bioengineering students are invited to the first BMES meeting of the quarter on Monday, 10/8/2007 at 5:00 in Foege N130.

BMES Undergraduate Barbeque, Friday, October 5, 4:30 @ Gasworks park
Come enjoy burgers and soft drinks with the rest of the undergraduate Bioengineers at Gasworks park THIS Friday!

MESA Saturday Academy, Saturday Oct 20, 12-3 PM
“Adventures in Medicine” — High schoolers can learn about cool careers and new research that they may have never heard of. BMES members can help present and do hands on activities with the high school juniors. See http://www.seattlemesa.org for more information.

Life Sciences Research Week, Nov 8-11, 10 AM - 2 PM each day
BMES has been recruited to sponsor an activity table for this event at the Pacific Sciences Center. We need volunteers for those times at any increment of times to talk to people and present information - Implants and Bioengineering. Free parking is available.

Contact Lauren Madden to volunteer. Thanks!

Poster also available in PDF

For the start of the 2007-2008 School year, the website has been revamped. Resources from the old web site are still available.