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Interdisciplinary Skills Development in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course

Dmitri E. Kourennyi § and John M. Sankovic§@ § Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH @ Space Administration, John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

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A biomedical laboratory course has been an important part of the undergraduate curriculum in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU for several decades. It has undergone numerous modifications and adjustments, always following the contemporary trends and requirements of the science and engineering education, including current Engineering Criteria and Objectives by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In its current form, it consists of two “tandem” courses, EBME 313 (fall) and EBME 314 (spring), in the junior year, and includes a number of educational components. These two courses are part of the Biomedical Engineering Core, and traditionally are among students’ most favorite courses. 1. The course offers unique opportunities for the students to acquire hands-on experience in “real” research in a variety of biomedical engineering areas. Students perform experiments using the equipment and employing techniques that researchers use in their studies. 2. Students are trained to and required to write lab reports in form of full-length scientific paper, which gives them powerful skills in technical communication. 3. Students are required to deliver a computer-based presentation on one of their labs. 4. Students participate in grading the presentations of their peers, thus acquiring important skills in grasping material quickly, as well as in objective and fair judgment. 5. Several lectures/discussions on ethics in science and engineering in the beginning of the fall semester are appreciated by students as important and interesting experience which many of them encounter for the first time. A short essay concludes the ethics component.

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The technological and social development of humankind has resulted in rather dramatic changes in traditional spheres of science, art, economy, medicine, social life, moral, etc. Science and engineering have become collective enterprises as opposed to the individualistic approach of mere hundred years old society. In addition, and related to that, science and technology have entered everyday life and modified it radically. Thus travelers today can get very frustrated if they have to spent more than few hours going from New York to London across the ocean, yet they brag that it takes them just over an hour to commute between home and work... Young people have problems with handwriting, while they type at speeds that leave professional typists of the beginning of the 20th century badly jealous... When asked to divide 64 by 16 or to take log100, students start looking for a calculator… When one of the authors had to find the

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Main Menu

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Sankovic, J. M., & Kourennyi, D. (2002, June), Interdisciplinary Skills Development In The Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10913