Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

engineering.Students apply engineering design principles through completion of a team design project with Page 11.401.2realistic constraints. The course serves as the entry point for the four-quarter sequence in whichstudents undertake and complete their capstone design project.Principles of Biomedical Design is a two-credit, required course for all biomedical engineeringstudents in the spring quarter of their junior year. The course meets twice a week, with one 50-minute lecture session and one 160-minute laboratory session. A unique feature of this course isits overlap with the final quarter of the senior design sequence. Half of the laboratory exercisesin

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Page 11.1427.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Vertical Mentoring: Closing the Loop in DesignAbstractTo help students ‘close the loop in design’ – that is, appreciate the importance and depth of theirdesign knowledge through a specific demonstration of this ability beyond their capstone designproject – we have implemented a vertical mentoring scheme in biomedical engineering design.Biomedical engineering seniors in the fourth quarter of the design sequence serve as designmentors to teams of juniors beginning their first quarter of design.In the junior-level course, student teams work on a smaller, common design project to ‘practice’a complete iteration of the design process before they tackle larger, more

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

engineers experience a senior capstone experience. Thefinal lab in the sequence serves a similar purpose as the senior design but on a smallertime scale. 1) It is important for students to design and conduct their own experiment. 2) Some students will confront failure. It is important in these instances to remind students that technical failures are often successful learning experiences. Page 11.1056.3 3) Students become more independent. 4) Students learn to debug a system.These labs should be fun while building on technical skills. Grading should be basedmore on the process followed rather than the

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Sullivan, Kettering University; Patrick Atkinson, Kettering University; Stacy Seeley, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

crash safety and orthopedic biomechanics.A sense that these courses were attracting students already at the university, and that they had thepotential to recruit high school students (especially underrepresented minorities) became theimpetus for developing a concentration. Currently, the Bioengineering Applicationconcentration includes the following: Introduction to Bioengineering Applications Choose three of the following five: Biology I Biology II Anatomy and Physiology Automotive Bioengineering: Occupant Protection and Safety Vehicular Crash Dynamics and Accident Reconstruction Bioengineering Applications Project (Capstone)This paper focuses on the