On Tuesday (19/12), the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Indonesia held the Biomedical Engineering Program Project Exhibition at the FTUI Building K Lobby. This annual event served as a platform for seven student groups from the 2020 cohort to showcase their design projects, which are implementations of the Biomedical Engineering Project Design course focusing on designing products and addressing problem-solving efforts related to health issues. The course instructors for this project were Dr. Basari, S.T., M.Eng., Siti Fauziyah Rahman, S.T., M.Eng., Ph.D., and Sylvi Febriana Rachmawati Irnadiastputri., B.Eng., M.Eng.
Anzelya Laurentzya, along with her team from the NIC-O QUICK! group presented their product. “Our concern about the requirements for scholarships and the grouping of BPJS users into smokers and non-smokers motivated us to create a rapid smoker detector device to help identify smokers quickly. Our device can identify the level of smoking through a biochemical reaction, which can be seen from the colour difference in the results of the rapid test sample.”
“This project design course provides students with an experience where they not only design product concepts but also realize them into a proof of concept in the form of a prototype that can be scaled up for use in the industrial world, optimizing realistic economic value,” said Dr. Basari, S.T., M.Eng., who is also the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Program at FTUI.
Dr. Basari also expressed hopes for future collaboration with RSUI (University of Indonesia Hospital) to create a dedicated environment within RSUI. “This collaboration will make it easier for students to focus on identifying problems at RSUI. I also hope that students can design products that attract the interest of the healthcare industry, so that the student-made products can be further developed and, hopefully, patented.”
The exhibition also featured three special judges: a lecturer and CEO of a start-up with expertise in product market knowledge, a practitioner serving as the director of medical device design, and the final judge a practitioner specializing in testing medical devices.
FTUI Dean, Prof. Dr. Heri Hermansyah, ST., M.Eng., IPU., also commended the exhibition of these innovative student products, saying, “These students’ works deserve appreciation because of their efforts in creating innovative solutions to health-related issues. In the future, I hope that Biomedical Engineering graduates can contribute to creating many products that are beneficial for healthcare professionals and hospitals in Indonesia.”
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