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When You Start

The BME Student Resources is a good place to start, even you are not in the BME program.
Engineering Physics also has a new graduate student guide as well as general graduate student resources.
  1. Your first point of contact:
    • Engineering Physics Graduate Secretary Ms. Nicole MacDonald
    • Biomedical Engineering administrator: Ms. Tina Thorogood,
  2. Obtain Student ID + bus pass + Direct Deposit + UHIP card
  3. Get Keys for Lab and/or Graduate Student Office
    • Contact Person: BME administrator (see #1)
    • You need keys to ETB exterior (graduate student only), ETB 431, and the BME student office ETB 303.
  4. Enable MacID and Activate Student Email account
  5. Apply Scholarships (NSERC, OGS, OGSST, etc.)
    • Contact persons: BME or Engineering Physics (see #1)
  6. Your Personal Contact Information
    • Use your MacID (#4) to access our lab's wiki page;
    • Create a Skype account for work use
  7. Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA)
    • To be determined based on your project
  8. Create your personal profile page in this Wiki Site
    • Upload personal profile picture, select from left hand panel, under toolbox heading
      • Upload File > Profile (make sure your file is uploaded correctly into this folder)
      • Save uploaded file as: last name and first initial.jpg
        • “Bob Smith” would be saved as smithb.jpg
    • Use another person's page as a template, and fill in necessary information, which should include:
      • Education, McMaster e-mail address, Research / Project Description, Schedule, and Safety Training
  9. Safety Training
    • For more information, please check with EOHSS
    • You need to contact Ms. Marilyn Marlow to attend the Engineering Physics/CEDT safety training/orientation
    • Everybody working in our lab should take:
      • Engineering Physics/CEDT safety training/orientation (contact Ms. Marilyn Marlow)
      • WHIMS core
      • Asbestos Awareness, Chemical Handling and Spills, Ergonomics, Fire Safety, Slips, Trips & Falls
      • Laser Safety
      • Biosafety
      • AODA Training
      • Basic Electrical Safety
    • Everyone is required to list their up-to-date safety training record in their own personal profile page. Please use the table available here on the Lab safety page, as a template.
    • After going over your Job Hazard Analysis Form (from the Eng Phys safety orientation) with your supervisor, you are required to complete a Engineering Physics/ C.E.D.T. Research Hazards Safety Report;Example by Aparna, and put it in your own profile as well as on the Lab Safety Page
  10. SPIE Student chapter
    • All students are recommended to join a professional organization related to their projects. TheSPIE McMaster Student Chapter is one of the choices.
  11. McMaster Biophotonics Facility (MBF) Access
  12. FHS Biomedical Waste Procedure in the HSC

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