Engineer Engineering

Atabek Can YUCEL

Englewood, NJ ***** 571-***-****

***********@*****.***

EDUCATION:

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Full tuition funding by NIH grant May

2013

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0

Thesis: Finite Element Modeling of temperature elevation due to NIR exposure in neural tissue.

Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, Full scholarship by the Government of Turkey Spring

2010

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA: 3.6/4.0

Thesis: Point, color and face detection in real time images in MATLAB.

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Software Requirements Engineer, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY December 2013-

Present

• Developing design requirements and software specifications from either engineering or prior immunoassay diagnostics market knowledge.

• Driving product milestones within and between teams, leading multiple feature teams to meet the due dates.

• Participating in peer reviews

• Tracing customer needs to product requirements and adhering to regulatory standards

Project Engineer, Vectracor, Totowa, NJ May 2013-December

2013

• Liaised with technicians and manufacturers to ensure the feasibility of a product in terms of design and software.

• Liaised closely with other medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists as well as with end-users.

• Discussed and solved problems with manufacturing, quality, purchasing and marketing departments.

• Conducting advanced research, investigation and problem solving.

Research Engineer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Biomedical Engineering Department 2011-

2013

• As a member of neural interface laboratory, worked on finite element modeling of neural tissue to investigate the feasibility of effectively

and efficiently using near infrared lights for stimulating neural tissue with floating electrodes.

• Worked in a team on surgical device sterilization, surgery room preparation for in vivo experiments on rats.

• Performed engineering calculations, analysis and programming using existing internal software tools as well as industry standard software

such as Matlab and Comsol.

Field Service Engineer, Gurmed Medical Devices, Istanbul, Turkey

2010-2011

• Installed and verified proper medical diagnostics devices in medical facilities (Siemens ADVIA Centaur).

• Troubleshot and repaired Integrated Immunoassay Systems (Siemens Immulite).

• Performed modeling and detailing of implant and instrumentation designs using the Pro Engineer software.

• Provided on demand field technical support to customers.

PROJECTS (Complete list of projects can be provided by request):

Spinal cord computer interface based on signals extracted from descending tracts (NIH Grant) Spring

2012

• Designed and manufactured electrodes with 32 channels to be implanted into spinal cord of rats to record electrical signals from different

depths.

• Made impedance adjustments and coating on the electrodes to be able to acquire more accurate measurements.

Eye movement controlled automatic wheelchair Spring

2010

• A wheelchair which has 3 stepper motors and moves to the direction of the patients eyes was built.

• Eye movements were detected by a video camera places on an eyeglasses-like structure which is light weighted and can easily be worn and

controlled by the patient.

• Real-time image processing codes were written in Matlab, and RF communication is constructed between the wheelchair and computer.

Robotic arm, controlled by real time laser tracking algorithm Winter

2010

• Built a robotic arm which is able to move in 4 directions continuously in real time. Two stepper motors control the motion of the arm while

one controls the orientation of the wrist

• Designed the robotic arm in ProE, fabricated and assembled the robotic arm by shaping metal sheets both by hand and with a power lathe.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

MATLAB and Simulink, Pro Engineer (CAD), COMSOL Multiphysics (FEA software), Pic C (Pic programming), Keil (Atmel

microcontroller programming), Proteus, Eagle (Circuit design and simulation), PSpice (Circuit simulator), MS Office and Windows OS.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

Best project award with both eye movement controlled wheelchair and robotic arm projects, Ranked 50th among 400,000 participants in

graduate study examination in Turkey, Leadership award from World organization of scout movement

M E MBERSH IPS:

B iomedical Engineering Society Network, Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society, NJIT Turkish student association (vice

p resident), Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey, Dokuz Eylül University Robotic Group, World Organization of Scout

Movement.

VOLUNTEER EXPER IENCE :

H iking leader at Mid-Atlantic hiking group in Washington, DC. Staff manager in “Anatolian” scout camps in 2004, 2006,

2008 (8000 participants), organizer of a national annual youth event for 7 years in Samsun, Turkey (5000 participants).

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