March 16, 2007

Ramakrishna Mukkamala, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project: "Integrated Research and Education in Cardiovascular Signal Processing for Automated and Less Invasive Monitoring of Central Hemodynamics." The goals for this project are to develop and advance signal processing techniques to quantify important hemodynamic measures: cardiac output, ejection fraction, left atrial pressure, and central arterial blood pressure, based on measurements of peripheral blood pressure and/or minimally invasive measurements of right ventricular or pulmonary artery pressure. The project results will impact the development of improved patient monitoring and the development of less invasive measures in cardiology.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for new faculty members, recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Mukkamala's educational plan focuses on incorporating biomedical engineering into high school and women's engineering outreach programs at Michigan State University, introducing the discipline with a novel hands-on project in rudimentary Cardiopulmonary Signal Processing (CSP) and offering a short course on basic signal processing concepts to life scientists.

NSF Award Abstract