BIOART project workshop at the Polytechnic University of Madrid
Representatives of the Zaporizhia National Technical University (ZNTU), head of the department of radio engineering and telecommunications S.V. Morshchavka, head of the department of software S.O. Subbotin and associate professor of the department software A.V. Parkhomenko participated in the Second Workshop “Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering” (January 28 – February 01, 2019, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain) under the international project “Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Artificial Implants for Bio-Engineering BSc/MSc Degrees” (BIOART, reg. number 586114-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) of the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
During the workshop, participants of the BIOART project from Ukraine and Israel improved their qualifications: they got acquainted with the organization of the educational process at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, received methodological materials for preparing new and improving existing training courses at the departments of software and radio engineering and telecommunications, got acquainted with the laboratory base and scientific research of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
On January 28, 2019, the workshop was held at the Higher School of Engineering of Telecommunications Systems (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenierıa y Sistemas de Telecomunicacion, ETSIST). The BIOART project coordinator, Prof. D. Luengo, delivered a welcoming speech to the workshop participants. The report of Honorary Professor of ZNTU, Associate Professor of the Catholic University of Leuven P. Arras was interesting, who spoke about programs in the field of biomedical engineering, experience in preparing and implementing international projects and scientific research. Representatives of partner universities also discussed the candidacies of experts who will perform an external assessment of the quality of project implementation. The discussion on the preparation of curricula, work programs and their distribution among the working groups of the project participants turned out to be meaningful.
On 01/29/2019 the workshop continued its work at ETSIST. Issues of dissemination of the project results were considered. After which, ETSIST representatives made presentations of the institution and its bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs. The visit of the workshop participants to the Department of Signal Theory and Communication was interesting, where anechoic and reverberation chambers, a radio frequency laboratory, an acoustics laboratory, a sound recording studio, an image processing laboratory, and a television recording studio were demonstrated. Issues of financial management and report preparation were also discussed. Workshop participants also took excursions to the Telecommunications Museum and the Digital Home Laboratory.
On January 30, 2019, the workshop was held at the Biomedical Technology Centre. The director of the centre, G. Guinea, and the deputy director, F. Rojo, delivered a welcoming speech and presented the centre. The excursions to the centre’s laboratories: cognitive neurology, magnetoencephalography, biomaterials and regenerative engineering, and bioinstruments were informative. After that, the workshop moved to the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenierıa de Telecomunicacion, ETSIT), where a presentation of the school and its library took place, and excursions were held to the laboratories: anechoic chamber, institute of optoelectronic systems and microtechnologies, laboratory “Smart Home”.
On January 31, 2019, the workshop worked at ETSIST. E. Shmueli made a presentation of online learning tools. S. O. Subbotin’s presentation was devoted to the issues of covering the project results in a collection of reports. The lectures “Sensors” by C. Benavente, “Signal Recognition Methods” (J. Gutierrez-Arriola, R. Frail), “Digital Processing of Biomedical Signals” (D. Luengo), “Split Output for ECG Signals” (D. Luengo), “Biometrics” (D. Meltzer) were informative. Informal discussions and debates between project partners were also held.
On February 1, 2019, a final meeting was held at the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenierıa Industrial, ETSII). The project participants heard a presentation of the school’s activities. After that, we got acquainted with the material and technical base: the power electronics laboratory, the robotics and intelligent machines laboratory, the bioengineering design laboratory, the laboratories of the Automation and Robotics Research Center, the Industrial Electronics Center, and the product development laboratory. There were also final discussions of the workshop results.
The visit of ZNTU employees within the framework of the BIOART project ensured the implementation of its tasks, and also contributed to the internationalization of ZNTU and the deepening of its cooperation with partner universities.
BIOART project team
