Professor Karen Reynolds presented a highly engaging and  informative session on Machines that go PING on May 2nd.

Karen Reynolds is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Flinders University. 
She explained that biomedical engineering was a unique mix of engineering, medicine and science, and that it is arguably the fastest growing branch of engineering. Biomedical engineers develop new devices, algorithms, and technologies that improve medical practice and health care delivery. Some notable examples include the heart pacemaker, the artificial hip, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Karen’s main areas of research are in Medical Instrumentation, Simulation for Medical Training, and Imaging and Modelling in Biomechanics.

Karen was named as "Australian Professional Engineer of the Year " at the 2010 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards and was recently elected  a 2011 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)