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The paper aims at presenting some simple and effective tools that can be used by medical engineering students in steering their research in relevant directions. This way, the results of their graduation projects may serve to address some real and urgent issues in their field of expertise. In order to achieve this goal, the students need simple and effective tools that provide reliable and fast results without involving additional skills. Therefore, the paper will present two situations of Medical Engineering and Optometry students in search for the suitable research topic for their graduation project, so that it responds to practical needs occurred from the social environment.
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Investigations were performed within the Advanced Mechatronic Systems Laboratory from Transilvania University of Brasov.
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Cotoros, D., Druga, C., Serban, I., Stanciu, A. (2019). Identifying Relevant Research Directions for Graduation Projects in Medical Engineering. In: Vlad, S., Roman, N. (eds) 6th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology; 17–20 October 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 71. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6207-1_52
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