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Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

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Biomedical

knowledge to the design of artificial organs including circulatorysupport devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificial kidney,pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificial organs(tissue engineering), and cardiopulmonary bypass. These lectures demonstrate how thetechniques and knowledge presented in the first part of the class are applied to the design ofartificial organs. The students then complete a final design project for an artificial organ of theirown choosing.1. IntroductionArtificial organs have a significant impact on the types and quality of medical care availabletoday. Artificial organs treat over 4.8 million patients a year in the United States and

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John Denis Enderle, University of Connecticut; Amy Lerner, University of Rochester; Samantha Jacques; Peter Katona, The Whitaker Foundation

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Biomedical

Page 11.412.3AbstractThe ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs specifically requires design incriterion three and criterion four. These requirements stem from a fundamental need forengineers to understand and carry out the design process and the requirements areunlikely to change in the foreseeable future. ABET criteria do not allow substitution ofresearch for design in an engineering program. What is the difference between researchprojects and design projects and why doesn’t ABET allow the substitution? Theobjective of this paper is to review the rationale for the design requirement in the ABETcriteria; review the differences between design and research; and to propose questionsthat can be used to differentiate between a research

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Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station. Page 11.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 COSMM: An Undergraduate Laboratory for Engineering and Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature as a TemplateIntroductionThe COSMM (Complex/Organic Shapes and Multiple

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Goldberg, Marquette University

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Biomedical

development projects and product liability cases, respectively, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and Wisconsin. He is a co-creator of the BMES-idea national design competition and writes a quarterly column on senior design for IEEE-EMBS magazine. Education: B.S. General Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1979; M.S. Bioengineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1980; Master of Engineering Management, Northwestern University, 1986; Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (Biomaterials), Northwestern University, 1998 Page 11.1012.1© American Society for

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BME Curriculum Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Michele Follen, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

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Biomedical

included exposure to clinicalmedicine and the relevant vocabulary, research experiences that emphasize the creation andapplication of new scientific knowledge, and entrepreneurial experience and its attendantvocabulary. The ten-week summer course also emphasizes development of skills in leadership,communication, ethics, and team building.The typical day for the internship students begins with ninety minutes of lectures and exercisesabout ethics, communication skills, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Students attend a full-dayhuman cadaver-based anatomy course for the first two weeks of the course. Lectures, dissection,and special projects comprise this course of instruction in the anatomy, physiology, andpathophysiology of the major organ systems

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Bazil, Purdue University; Aaron Kyle, Purdue University; Suneera Bhatia, Purdue University; Brain Moerdyk, Purdue University; Thomas Talavage, Purdue University; Andrew Brightman, Purdue University; Allison Sieving, Purdue University; George Graber, Purdue University; Ann Rundell, Purdue University

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Biomedical

laboratory componentculminates in a two-week design project to solve a bioinstrumentation problem. Studentsemploy a structured design process in problem formulation, brainstorming, research, designevaluation, and implementation. After the initial offering of this course, students learned basiccircuit theory and fundamental measurement principles. These laboratory exercises develop thestudents' understanding of bioelectric phenomena and bioinstrumentation, and their ability toaccurately measure physiological events.1 Introduction Many Biomedical Engineering (BME) programs have implemented a bioinstrumentationcourse requiring prior linear circuit theory instruction. Such programs often evolved fromElectrical Engineering (EE) classes that had been

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Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Coyne, U.S. Army ECBC; Arthur Johnson, University of Maryland-College Park

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Biomedical

andphysiological work rate. Students must make assumptions in their calculations and mustdetermine the appropriate order in which to make the calculations. Students are provided with alist of common equations prior to the exam. Students are allowed to bring additional notes andequations if they choose. The ability of the students to apply the modeling steps and to evaluateand select models is also covered on the final exam.ProjectsIn most years, one modeling project was assigned. Groups of 3-4 students were formed by theinstructor or chosen by the students. Each group selected a model from the textbook or fromcurrent literature. The students then coded the model in a computer language of their choice.Students were expected to show the impact of

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo

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Biomedical

third lab, students were asked to design an experiment that would quantitativelyanalyze a movement they found interesting. The only instructions were that their studymust involve a force balance and the recording of the EMG from a muscle group.Reference 2 is a good resource for force balances. Some examples of student mini-projects were: 1) What are the muscular forces that must be generated when you arm-wrestle? 2) How much force must your claves generate to perform a Pliè? 3) Which muscles fatigue that fastest?It should be noted that the content of the labs may not always be directly related. In theexample above, the EMG was recorded from different muscles in the first, second andpossibly third lab. The important component of the

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Harris, Vanderbilt University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

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Biomedical

Research Center inBioengineering Educational Technologies has conducted research and development on methodsto improve bioengineering education for the last 6 years. This project has sought to synthesizelearning science, learning technology, assessment and evaluation and the domain knowledge ofbioengineering so that new approaches to bioengineering education could be developed andtested. This project has resulted in a number of innovations that have been shown to improve theeducational process in bioengineering. We are currently developing methods to disseminatethese findings and make then available to the bioengineering educational community.I. IntroductionRecently, there has been a significant concern expressed by academic, scientific, business

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Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Biomedical

External Fluid Fluid Dynamics Dynamics Final Exam: Art Project Complete Analysis of Turbulent Low a Plant or Flows Reynolds Animal Number Flows Animals Plants Figure 1. Mind-map of Topics

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

modify existing course assignments, projects, etc. as the basisfor our review whenever possible.We next identified courses which most clearly required students to demonstrate achievement ofour Program Outcomes. Faculty teaching these courses volunteered to save paper or electroniccopies of all the student work submitted (i.e., work from all students in the class) for something(an assignment, a test question, a project, a report) that the instructor believed – if completedcorrectly – would demonstrate achievement of a designated, relevant Program Outcome.Prior to beginning to write our criteria and rubrics, we decided to keep the rubrics as simple aspossible. At this initial stage we were primarily interested in whether a given sample of student

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Markus Billeter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for Biomedical; Grace M. Nijm, Northwestern University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Northwestern University; Alan Sahakian, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

the signal which is being received fromthe RF coil. Even though low power consumption is not of primary concern inthis project, this microprocessor was chosen since its performance is sufficient forthe system, and it is relatively simple to use. It allows programming in C, C++or Assembler. The code used in this apparatus is written in C++. An evaluationboard is available from TI which includes a JTAG port and the appropriate cableto connect it to the USB port of a computer. It has a flash program memory of60 kB, a RAM size of 2048 bytes and 48 I/O pins. It includes a 12-bit SARA/D converter and two 12-bit D/A converters. Furthermore, it allows the use oftwo SPI or UART channels for serial communication. It also provides two 16-bittimers and a

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

the Director of Assessment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she designs and implements assessment activities for both small and large scale projects. She has presented her work at national psychology and assessment conferences and has published in the areas of political and social psychology. Shannon holds an MA degree in General Experimental Psychology. Page 11.921.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Meeting the learning styles of biomedical engineers in a mainstream genetics course: a biologist’s perspectiveIntroductionA primary goal of undergraduate

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Steven Schreiner, Western New England College; Diane Testa, Western New England College

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Biomedical

projects for developing world hospitals. Page 11.799.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integration of Diverse Laboratory Experiences throughout the Biomedical Engineering CurriculumAbstractLaboratory instruction is crucial in bioengineering curricula to introduce biological andphysiological measurements as well as to foster an understanding of the complex nature ofbiological systems. Traditionally, stand-alone bioengineering laboratory courses providedstudents an opportunity to learn the function and operation of instrumentation as well as toanalyze data by applying theories learned