{"id":47780,"date":"2018-06-14T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=47780"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:30:21","slug":"carleton-grad-hopes-to-revolutionize-health-care","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/carleton-grad-hopes-to-revolutionize-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Convocation 2018: Carleton Grad Hopes to Revolutionize Health-Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Spring Convocation 2018: Carleton Grad Hopes to Revolutionize Health-Care\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Picture the bustling ward of a Canadian hospital 10 years in the future- the place would likely look similar to any local hospital today, but Firdous Hadj-Moussa, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering, hopes to see one major addition \u2013 robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiomedical and Mechanical Engineering is all about using the links between technology and medicine to advance the health-care system,\u201d said Hadj-Moussa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optimizing Health-Care Delivery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The results can range from MRI machines and prosthetic limbs all the way up to, yes, robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hadj-Moussa weaved the threads of science fiction and reality together during her fourth year at Carleton. She and a team of nearly 25 other senior engineering students developed a robot called iTAD (Intelligent Telepresence Assistive Device) for their capstone project. The robot can be remotely controlled by medical professionals to communicate with patients, interact with its surroundings through a mechanized arm, and navigate hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hope is that the invention, which is still in development, will reach patients in under-serviced or inaccessible areas of the country and reduce wait times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where clinical engineering can shine \u2026 to optimize health-care delivery,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Carleton, Hadj-Moussa led a peer-assisted study session (PASS), was part of the Carleton University Biomedical Engineering Society (CUBES) and played an integral role at Carleton University Women in Science and Engineering (CU-WISE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acknowledging the Under-Representation of Women in Engineering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to acknowledge the under-representation of women, who make up just a quarter of engineering students in the country according to a report released by Engineers Canada<\/a> last year, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaking sure everybody feels comfortable and included in whatever program they decide to take, that in a nutshell is one of our major goals at CU-WISE.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This September, Hadj-Moussa will pursue a Master of Health Science in Clinical Engineering at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHopefully wherever I end up I\u2019ll be somewhere helping other people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture the bustling ward of a Canadian hospital 10 years in the future- the place would likely look similar to any local hospital today, but Firdous Hadj-Moussa, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering, hopes to see one major addition \u2013 robots. \u201cBiomedical and Mechanical Engineering is all about using the links between technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47821,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[25],"cu_story_tag":[1918],"class_list":["post-47780","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-student-experience","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-engineering-and-design"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97947,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47780\/revisions\/97947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=47780"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=47780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}