Post graduate course Community Service Engineering Bart Vanrumste ADVISE – KU Leuven Technology...

Post graduate courseCommunity Service Engineering

Bart VanrumsteADVISE – KU Leuven Technology Campus GeelSTADIUS – ESAT, KU LeuveniMinds, Medical Information Technology Departmentbart.vanrumste@esat.kuleuven.be

It started with the Cera Award

a) Cera Award links social profit organisations to students in technical higher education

b) Students work on a technical problem in a social profit organisation.

c) Students develop social, communication and creative skills.

What the Cera Award reveiled…

a) There is a lot of innovation potential in the social profit sector

b) Engineers can contribute more to the sector if they understand more clearly the needs and challenges of the people and organisations in this sector

Unesco

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• Unesco, 2010

The new curriculumCommunity Service Engineer

A profile of engineersthat have profound knowledge of groups and organisations in the broad welfare sector

A glimpse on the curriculum

Epilepsy detection based on video and accelerometers for use at home

Video

EEG

Acceleration

Multimodal approach

Children with epilepsy:• Care after seizure• Have objective number

of seizures

Automatic Monitoring of outlier days based on occupancy sensors

PIR data

Detection of outlier days based on PIR sensors for Tele-Care applications

www.iiw.kuleuven.be/cse