# Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri

- Show: [The Amp Hour](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour)
- Published: 2025-12-22
- Length: 1h 29m
- Episode: 711
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri
- Listen: https://theamphour.com/711-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri/

## Summary

Dr. Mark Palmeri, a professor at Duke University, discusses his BME Design Fellows program and the Tympanometer project, an open-source medical device built for low-resource communities. He explains how he uses open tools like KiCad, Zephyr RTOS, and Jupyter notebooks to teach practical engineering skills, emphasizing validation and verification (V&V) processes required for medical devices. Palmeri details the challenges of transitioning from academic prototyping to commercialization, including regulatory hurdles and the ethical considerations of cost-reduced medical hardware.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=0) Introduction and Academic Background
- [3:43](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=223) Medical Device Regulations and V&V Rigor
- [7:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=445) The BME Design Fellows Program and Safe Failing
- [14:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=841) Open Source Tools: KiCad, SPICE, and Python
- [31:39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=1899) Embedded Firmware Education with Zephyr RTOS
- [1:11:47](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=4307) The Tympanometer Project for Low-Resource Communities
- [1:20:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-12-22-medical-electronics-education-with-mark-palmeri#t=4857) Commercialization, Ethics, and Future of Education

## Topics

- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [EDA & CAD tools](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/eda-and-cad-tools)
- [Medical & health devices](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/medical-devices)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Certification & compliance](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/certification-and-compliance)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Duke University (company)
- KiCad (tool)
- Zephyr (tool)
- ngspice (tool)
- Jupyter notebooks (tool)
- Nordic (company)
- NXP (company)
- Psylabs (company)
- ST (company)
- Blur Product Development (company)
- Tympanometer (product)
- Arduino (tool)
- VS Code (tool)
- GitHub (tool)

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