With the help of Google, Anne-Christine Hertz invented a prototype device called BikeAround; a device that pairs stationery bike with Google Street View to combat dementia.

Based on the data gathered by Alzheimer’s Society, “there are 850,000 people with dementia and the number will rise to over 1 million by 2025” (Alzheimer’s Society). The number is very distressing since there are still many unanswered questions “about the condition and if dementia can be cured” (NHS, 2015).

BikeAround allows patients to input street address of a place that means something to them (e.g. their childhood’s neighbourhood). Next, the patient will be able to roam around the location using Google Street View with BikeAround.

The foundation of Hertz’s invention lies in how physical stimulation from pedalling and steering can stimulate the brain to produced dopamine. Therefore, the prototype is currently under further development to ensure that more people around the globe can enjoy the benefits from BikeAround.

Watch the clip to see how BikeAround works in real life.

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Finding the perfect candidates on social media is like a treasure hunt. It is not easy and can be very time-consuming if you do not know what to look. However, when you find the ‘one’, you know that the hard work will pay off. How many of you scrolled through the potential candidate’s social media during the recruitment process? Whether its a quick peek on their LinkedIn or their weekend’s Tweets, it is your opportunity as recruiters to get a snippet about their online persona. Social media is unavoidably the prominent source for recruiter like us in Medical Engineers to find the perfect candidates for you. So, what are the three key traits of candidates that shines through their social media?

A Striking Headline

SEO is the key to find the perfect candidate. Whether it is a Twitter profile bio, a Facebook short bio, or a LinkedIn headline, the potential candidates will give you an overview of who they are. However, the most important part of this process is to match the keywords on a search engine or social media’s search engine based on your requirement. For example, when you use the search engine on Linkedin with a specific keyword and found the candidate using specific keywords, that means they maximised their profile to be SEO friendly.

To gain an information about their current position or indicating that they are looking for opportunities through their headline can help you to identify the role that they might interest them. The first impression is everything, right? At the end of the day, you want to fill that vacant position ASAP. Therefore, it matters to gather as much information in the shortest period of time.

A Holistic Approach

After reviewing their list of experiences on LinkedIn, it might be good to put some attention to other social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter. It may be difficult to browse someone’s Facebook as they might expect you to be their ‘friend’ before the news feed. Nevertheless, try to think the location of their ‘hangout place’ on social media outside of work? Are they foodie-holic and decorate their Instagram’s feed with the hippest food scene in the city. Or, they like to follow, RT-ed, and comment with similar minded people on Twitter. This information can be crucial as it will help you to understand their characteristics outside their professional life.

Added Value?

Finally, you need to make the decision to offer the candidate with the job. Social media can be a good consideration point as potential employer or recruiter to welcome the candidate as part of the organisation. However, make sure that you check your note thoroughly about some interesting point when you went through their social media. If their Twitter’s account posted 10 Tweets in 20 minutes, then you might want to be cautious cause they might spend more time browsing the Twittersphere than working on their actual job.

We hope that these guidelines can help you to unravel some stigma that recruitment the perfect candidate via social media is not difficult.

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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University is undertaking a study to improve the physical rehabilitation process by personalising the robot interaction with the human.

For Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek, head of the Cognition, Aging, and Rehabilitation lab focuses her research on the use of robots for rehabilitation patients. The motivation of the experiment lies in the lack of physical practice for patients at home. Therefore, the device can facilitate the patients to practice and improve their health at their comfortable home.

“In the future, human beings may increasingly rely on robotic assistance for daily tasks, and our research shows that the type of motions that the robot makes when interacting with humans makes a difference in how satisfied the person is with the interaction,” said Levy-Tzedek.

WScientists of Oldenburg University utilises a new type of ‘robotic microscope’ to automatically record, scan, and document fine tissue sample.

For Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, a neurobiologist and main user of the microscope, “the sample is automatically digitised, therefore it can be used years later without any loss in quality.” Previously, the scientist might require a longer period (up to months!) to collect and analyse a sample, therefore the microscope will accelerate the process.

He also adds, “With this machine what used to take a month can be done in a single night, and in a better quality than we ever had before.”

Scientists have been using the microscope for a variety of purposes. For example, Prof. Dr. Michael Winklhofer as the leader of the Sensory Biology of Animals utilise the device to observe the magnetic sense of salmon. Also, Neurogeneticist Prof. Dr. Hans Gerd Northang’s team is studying the effects of deafness on the development and functioning of auditory pathways in mice.

Medical student Pauline Loewen (front) and research associate Dr. Lena Ebbers are using the digitizing robotic microscope to study hearing in mice. They discuss their results with Prof. Dr. Michael Winklhofer (left) and Prof. Dr. Hans Gerd Nothwang. (Photo credit: Oldenburg University)

The microscope is available for students and faculty members of the university. It will play an important development in advancing the medical research and strengthening collaboration between professors at university hospitals and professors of the natural sciences.

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First of all, we would like to thank FireFish Software for the inspiration on this blog post.

Social media is unavoidably the best places to find the ‘perfect candidate’. The ability to target a specific type of demographics (e.g. age, qualifications, location, mobile phone headset, and many others!) enable us as a recruiter to ensure that the job advertisement appears to those who matter.

The two main key activities that each of us must master are social media listening and monitoring. These are the key indicator to ensure that you can seek the performance of the post throughout different platforms. The information will be useful for you to content plan

On FireFirsh blog’s post ‘How to Assess (and Improve) Your Social Media Presence’ they have summarised some vital keys that you should monitor when maximising your social recruitment. These include understanding the key stats (such as a number of followers, post reach, and engagement levels), the appropriate audiences, and why we should utilise our own team to increase the reach of your post. Creating a compelling content other than a job advert is also important to ensure that you can engage with the users.

Therefore, after you read this blog, we hope that you have some new compelling content ideas that can spice up your social media, especially those with interested in engineering.

Tech..technology…tech

Technology related information is the key content that you should always put on your social media. The strategy is to make your social media platforms as a hub for the candidates to find information.

Focus on cool inventions and scientific news. You want to give the users a reason to visit your profile and engage with the content. Although it is important to include information on the latest job advertisement from the client, users might avoid visiting our profile since it’s not informative and boring.

Career Tips and Industry News

Career tips will not go dull. Remember that you are talking to a wide audience. They might be a fresh graduate or someone with 10 years of experiences. Inspire your audiences with relevant and actionable information that they can use in the real life. You can accompany the post with hashtags such as #TuesdayThoughts or #MondayMotivation that increase the post visibility.

In addition, white papers or trend report can be an incentive for your audiences to engage with your content. Extract the information to create a stunning infographic, therefore they can share the content on their own network.

Geeky GIFs and High-Quality Images

Never underestimate the power of GIF and high-quality image to accompany your social media post. Try to think the GIF’s from Star Trek, Star Wars, or Dr.Who. Other types of GIF such as cats, dogs, or anime might give you some varieties of your content. However, be mindful to ensure that the content is relevant to your brand. If you are mainly talking to engineers, then you might not want to include a picture of anime or dancing bananas because it may not look very professional. Therefore, always be mindful of the graphics that you use on social media.

STEM Events

Do you want to give a reason for your users to visit your social media profile? Collate relevant information on the upcoming events related to STEM. Remember that you want to make your social media as a hub? This is a perfect content to ensure that they will come back and find a reason to visit your profile.

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A new type of surgical dressing might provide a better resistant to bacterial infection and combat antibiotic resistance by using weak electric fields.

“Drug resistance in bacteria is a major threat and antibiotic-resistant biofilm infections are estimated to account for at least 75 percent of bacterial infections in the United States,” said Dr Chandan Sen, Director of Ohio States Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell-Based Therapies.

Sen experimented with a wireless electroceutical dressing (WED) using silver and zinc printed on fabric. When moistened, WED generates a weak electric field without any external power supply and can be used as a disposable dressing.

During the study, the WED dressing was applied within the two hours of wound infection in pigs to test its ability to prevent biofilm formation. In addition, “WED was applied after seven days of infection to study disruption of established biofilm. Wounds were treated with placebo dressing or WED twice a week for 56 days” (Wexnermedical,2017). Both proved successful, Sen said.

Dr Chandan Sen holding the WED. Credit: Wexner Medical Center – The Ohio State University

“Our study shows that WED may be viewed as a first generation electroceutical wound care dressing, and it also accelerated functional wound closure by restoring skin barrier function,” Sen said. “Both from bacterial biofilm structure as well as host response perspectives, WED was consistently effective. No batteries or wires are needed because we harness the power of electrochemistry.”

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What if dirty water can be the main source of energy? Seokheun Choi is the leader of the research to convert dirty bacteria into clean energy at Binghampton University, United States by using a solar cell (micro-BSC). So, lets found out the development of this project.

The objective of the device provides ‘stand-alone, independent, self-sustainable point-of-care diagnostic devices to work in limited-resource and remote regions’ (Lio and Choi, 2017). The solar cells have produced ‘a greater power density than any micro-BSC systems’ and able to ‘produced a sustained power of around 18.6µW per cm2 during the day and around 11.3µW per cm2 at night’ (Nathan, 2017) for up to 20 days.

For Choi, the research will help to further the current model micro-BSC that have only produced power density outputs in the range of nW per per cm2

The invention: This is a miniaturized biological solar cell assembled micro-BSC device by Seokheun Choi

The device consisted of a film of a cyanobacterium – a type of simple single celled-plant called Synechocystis. Through the process of photosynthesis, cynobacteria ‘tend to grow in biofilms, spontaneously organising themselves into colonies’ (Nathan, 2017).

“However, the promise of this technology has not been translated into practical applications because of its relatively low power and current short lifetimes,” according to Choi.

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Welcome to ME’s monthly Newsletter

March has been an exciting month for us, with lots of opportunities within the business. Spring is finally here, and it is reassuring to see some light at the end of the tunnel! 2020 has been a challenging time for so
many businesses and industries.

The recruitment industry saw a massive increase in the job-seekers market, with not as many roles available creating an oversaturation of candidates looking for new positions. Despite this, recruitment is picking back up again, and we are starting to see clients reopening and recruiting for new opportunities.

International Women’s Day!

On the 8th of March, we celebrated International Women’s Day in the office. It is more important than ever to support, guide, and inspire women in all industries, and at Medical Engineers we are privileged enough to work with inspiring women within the Medical Devices Industry every day. Thank you to all the amazing role models that guide women in engineering and technology, making positive changes for future generations!

Congratulations to…

Oliver Chapman

We would like to say a huge congratulations to Oliver Chapman who started his new contract in Leeds with Depuy Synthes working in their MDR team!

Depuy Synthes R&D is one of the leading orthopaedic facilities in the world, designed to stimulate innovation, communication and collaboration they are always working on so many fantastic lifesaving projects.

It has been a pleasure working with Oliver, and we wish him every success at Depuy Synthes!

Moore Medtech

We are also celebrating the amazing work our sister company, Moore Medtech has achieved this month. During the last year, Moore Medtech have been supporting employers who have implemented COVID-19 lateral flow testing programmes within their businesses. Moore Medtech have delivered bespoke onsite and at home testing programmes around the UK. Medical Engineers have partnered to provide unbelievable talent to make these programmes possible including clinical professionals and administrators. The Medical Engineers, and Moore Medtech Teams alike have seen what incredibly hard work and effort has gone into the testing programmes and without the incredible staff that were recruited for these contracts, the programmes could not have gone ahead, so well-done Moore Medtech!

Hot Jobs

We are working with a couple of new clients this month on some exciting new roles. Click the links to go to the specified roles and to apply.

Spanish Speaking Project Manager – Biotechnology Industry – St Albans

6 mth Electronics Engineer Contract – Southend-On-Sea

Permanent Industrial Design Engineer – POC Devices – Bedfordshire

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Recruiting Graduates.

2020 was a challenging year for many businesses throughout the Medtech industry.
After speaking with businesses and candidates within the job market recently, clients and job seekers have been finding it difficult to get back into it.

In May time, thousands of graduates will be graduating from their universities, and it is currently a volatile and uncertain job market for these individuals.

At Medical Engineers we want you to know we are still here to support you in any way we can.

We are speaking with graduates that are actively looking for roles within the Medical Devices and Biotechnology industries, coming from prestigious universities up and down the UK.

Graduates and interns are a great addition to any business, and we have seen this countless times, graduates making an impact and being a big success within our client’s businesses.

But why are they a good addition to your teams?

1. Graduates are keen to learn and progress.

Graduates are normally keen to improve and impress within a new role. It is the first time they are able to put all the theory and work experience they have gained from university and implement this in a real, working environment.

2. They have a different outlook.

Younger generations will have different perspectives on life and work. Graduates will look to add and contribute new, innovative and fresh ideas to your company. Not to mention, they’re likely to have different views, which will help to inject a younger voice into your organisation and increase diversity within your business.

3. Graduates are mouldable.

This might be their first experience of a full-time office, lab, or workshop life. This means that you can teach them from the get-go how to work, and how to approach company issues, rather than trying to mould someone with pre-existing habits.

4. A graduate will question the way things work.

Fresh graduates are likely to be inquisitive, and with their university studies still fresh in their minds, they will be used to questioning how and why things work the way they do within your business. This will push your company to question its existing (and potentially outdated or inefficient) approaches.

5. Graduates are more comfortable with technology.

In general, especially recent graduates will be more comfortable with technology due to the ubiquity of tech during their youth, PC’s, Laptops, mobile phones and apps are all staples within the younger generation’s lives. Apps may be useful and be used to streamline your processes, and graduates may be able to help you with this.

On top of all these wonderful reasons to give our graduates a chance to make it in our industry, We would like to offer all graduate and Intern recruitment free of charge for new and existing clients. We will advertise the roles on our website and multiple job boards and pass the applications directly on to you, for you to find your ideal next candidate.

Candidates, make sure you upload your CVs and set up your account on our website, to get job alerts for some fantastic graduate opportunities: https://jobs.medicalengineers.co.uk/register.aspx

Clients, new and old, to get in touch with us and get involved with our Graduate Recruitment Opportunity, email us on recruitment@medicalengineers.co.uk

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This last month has gone so quickly, and at Medical Engineers we have been busy onboarding new clients and working on some fantastic new contract and permanent positions. Scroll to the bottom of the Blog to check out our Hot Jobs!

International Earth Day!

It was International Earth Day in April. Our business is always trying to find new ways to be more environmentally conscious. Last Christmas to show our appreciation for our clients, and to be kind to the environment, we planted them each a tree by donating money to The Tree Council.

Congratulations to…

David Garris

We would like to say a huge congratulations to David Garris who started his new permanent role with Combat Medical. Combat Medical is a specialist thermotherapy medical device company that strives to defeat Cancer. David is an exceptional Project Manager with skills and experience in multiple regulated industries and is going to be working with Combat Medical to manage the multiple exciting projects and new products Combat Medical is currently working on.

It has been a pleasure working with David, and we wish him every success at Combat Medical

Hot Jobs

We are working with a couple of new clients this month on some exciting new roles. Click the links to go to the specified roles and to apply.

Software Engineer – Permanent – Fully Remote

QA Lead – Part-Time – Flexible – Remote

Senior Human Factors Consultant – Permanent – Bristol

Industrial Design Engineer – Permanent – Edinburgh Consultancy

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