The First Biomedical Engineering Workshop will be held at the Systems & Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University between 15th – 19th of December 2012.  

This workshop will get you exposed to different and interdisciplinary topics that are highly relevant to Biomedical Engineering such as Medical Visualization, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, Hardware Design, High Performance Computing, Technical Writing, and Medical Portal Design.

The following topics shall be covered INSHAA ALLAH: 

1. High Performance Computing: Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC), Task-Parallel Vs. Data Parallel Techniques, Shared Vs. Distributed Memory Architectures, Race Conditions, Memory Architecture, OpenMP, MPI, Dataflow Programming, GPGPU or GPU Programming, CUDA, OpenCL, Exa-Scale Computing, Hybrid Computing Clusters, Heterogenous Computing, etc ... 

2. Medical Visualization: Introduction to Rendering, Computer Graphics, OpenGL Pipeline, Rasterization Vs. Raytracing, Volume Vs. Surface Rendering, OOP-based Visualization, Scene-graph-based Rendering, Open Inventor, XIP, VTK, ITK, Shading Languages, Image Processing, Transfer Functions, Performance Optimizations.   

3. Software Engineering: Introduction to Programming Languages (C++, Java, MATLAB, CUDA, Python, Ruby, Perl, Scala, Brainfuck, etc...), Programming Vs. Scripting Languages, How to Select your Programmgin Language, Programming Paradigms (Procedural, OOP, Event-driven, Task-driven, Functional, etc ... ), What is the most Suitable Paradigm to be Followed?, Software Build Systems (MS Visual Studio Vs. AutoTools, CMake), Version Control Systems (CVS, SVN, Mercirual, GIT). 

4. Medical Portal Design: Introduction to Portal Design, Web Databases, Web Development, Examples (Webmd).

5. Hardware Design: Introduction to Embedded Systems, Micro-Controllers Vs. Micro-Processors, FPGAs, ASICs, Software-Hardware Co-design. 

6. Technical Writing: Ethics in Scientific Writing, Latex. 

A main objective of this workshop also is to interconnect students having interests in similar fields by forming different scientific groups that will be supervised by the professors, teaching, research assistants and postgraduate students. These groups shall open communication channels between students and industrial companies to give them a chance to get exposed to the practical aspects of their inter-curricular activities.

 News 

# We still have some available seats. Attendance is open for all for free. Feel free to attend if you are interested.  

# IMPORTANT: The workshop will be starting the 16th of December at 8:30 AM as 

all the sessions of DAY 1 (HPC) will be shifted to Sunday. Please have a look on 

the final program. 

# Registration for this workshop is NO MORE available. Stay tuned for further BME workshops in the future.  

# The final program has been announced. 

# The registration confirmation phase will start the 1st of December 2012. All the participants who successfully registered to the workshop will be receiving confirmation emails to acknowledge their final participation. By that date, if you can't see your name in the list of participants, kindly send us an email (contact us) to reflect your name into the participants list. 

# NO SHOW Policy: The registration for this workshop is FREE, however, attendance is mandatory and highly appreciated. You have to understand that each participant costs the organizers some money, so please if you don't plan to attend after you have registered, send us an email to deregister giving an opportunity to other students to attend. If you are not attending, you will not be able to attend any future BME workshops/seminars at all.   

IMPORTANT: There will be no official lectures for undergraduate or graduate students during the duration of the workshop sessions. (Confirmed with the department administration) 

# Speakers list has been updated.  

#IMPORTANT: The web-server was down at (14.11.2012) between 8:00 - 19:00, so if you registered in this duration, please re-register via the registration form again. To make sure that you have a successful registration, check your name in the list of participants. 

# Registration is open now for Free. If you would like to attend this workshop, please fill in the registration form online. 

# Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page has been added to the website. If you have any inquiries, feel free to contact us and the answers will be reflected in the FAQs page. 

# 200+ participants have successfully registered to the workshop (1st December 2012). 

# The daily schedule has been updated. 

# Download the workshop poster in HQ. 

# A workshop badge will be delivered to the final participants to recognize them and also to facilitate recognizing other participants from other academic years, or other institutes.  

 Organizing Committee 

 # Prof. Dr. Yasser Kadah

 # Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayman Eldeib

 # Marwan Abdellah

 # Ahmed Hassan

 # Ahmed Abdelhadi

 # Yassen Amer

 # Marwan Hussein 

 # Ahmed Hussein 

 # Ahmed Yousry

 # Nada Yehia 

 # Mai Zaki