{"id":1898,"date":"2015-07-20T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-07-20T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:00:03","slug":"give-a-man-a-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-day-teach-and-man-to-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2015\/07\/20\/give-a-man-a-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-day-teach-and-man-to-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Part of the EPSRC Vacation Bursaries Scheme 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student name<\/strong>: Jonathan Sandman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student degree course<\/strong>: MEng Acoustical Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of study<\/strong>: 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: David Simpson<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It might seem odd to attribute such a quote to an engineering degree, but bear with me; it actually makes an awful lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that I have found so rewarding about studying engineering is the wide range of problems to which it may be applied; over the past 3 years of my course (still 1 more to go!) I have found myself involved in projects ranging from bridge design to auditorium acoustics, from building a loudspeaker to assessing beat detection algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>In many degrees, having such a broad subject area might weaken it&#8217;s value: not in engineering. It might seem that I have been culling opportunities with decisions as far back as GCSEs. On the contrary, the opportunities that I have seem greater than ever.<\/p>\n<p>An area of engineering that I am interested in, but have never had the chance to explore, is biomedical signal processing; that is, the analysis of measurements using signal processing techniques in order to advise clinical decisions. My individual project involved a lot of signal processing, which is thoroughly enjoyed, and I feel that the next step for me is to now apply these skills to something more involved in human response.<\/p>\n<p>Although I am going to be involved in a few different projects throughout my research placement in slightly different areas, I am currently familiarising myself with and editing cerebral blood flow measurements for the purpose of using it to assess the cerebral pressure autoregulation function in humans. I am also planning on taking part in future tests and liaising with MSc Audiology students in order to better understand the physical meaning of the data that I am working with, and how we might use it to investigate cerebral pressure autoregulation or develop better methods of measurement<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that my research placement will introduce me to, and develop my knowledge of biomedical signal processing ahead of the module that I am taking next year. 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