Bio Instruments Research and Development Society (BIRDS )
The institution has an interdisciplinary research group called Bio Instruments Research and Development Society (BIRDS). BIRDS is a forum for professionals in the field of medicine and engineering to work in collaboration.
Main Activities:
- Conduct workshops/seminars annually:
- Conducted a half day workshop on 'Enabling Technologies for Health Care' in association with IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter at RSET on 16th Aug 2016.
- One day workshop on BIRDS-'so far and future'with panel discussions on 6th June 2017.
- R&D on biomedical instruments:
- Designing a 'Upper limb rehabilitation system'for patients with impairments after a stroke.
- Designing of a 'Kinetic gait analysis device' for recording, analyzing and reporting gait of physically impaired.
- Designing of a 'Therapeutic hand massager'.
- Taking up issues referred to the Society by practicing doctors:
Research on EEG signals since 2012. Associated with doctors and medical industries to bring out improvements in the current method of EEG recordings.
- Student projects:
- Internships for PG students
- Projects for UG students
- Transfer of technology to industry:
Interaction with R& D Center, SFO, Ms. NeST Technologies, Kakkanad for developing projects as products on 6th Feb 2018.
- Development of equipment and software tools for medical diagnosis and treatment.