The students in my class had their project presentations today. I was really impressed with a lot of the projects. One group had built a "puke sensor" (yuck) on request from the medical engineering department at the university hospital here in Lund. The people working at the hospital figured that it would be handy with a gadget that warns the nurses if sedated or very sick patient is about to thrown up. Totally understandable! The students used three transducers to monitor a patient's status and designed a program that warns the nurses if the three parameters that they monitored started to show signs of patient sickness. It was a fun project and the students solved it in a great way. In case you wonder, the students didn't have to test it on a real case. :-)

I promised you some photos from fieldwork with a beluga whale. I always keeps my promises so here it is. Meet Nanuq! He is a male beluga whale that lives at Sea World, San Diego, USA.

Here is a screen dump from a measurement using my home made computer program. The graph on the right hand side shows the measured intensities of the cross section of the echolocation beam. I know the quality of this picture is really bad. Sorry for that!

I also got to play with Nanuq a little. Thank you trainers!

(Did I tell you that I love my job? ;-)

Well, I hope that this blog has given you a little more information about what different approaches sea related research can have. Engineering is a very broad field with all kinds of different application areas. It is so much more than just stiff calculations. It is almost like it comes in different flavours. Which one would you like?

So long!

/Josefin