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Design in the BME Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Johnson, University of Cincinnati / Engineering; Mary Beth Privitera, University of Cincinnati; Daria Narmoneva, University of Cincinnati; Balakrishna Haridas, University of Cincinnati

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Biomedical

AC 2008-2424: DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL CAPSTONE: AN INTEGRATEDEXPERIENCEJeffrey Johnson, University of Cincinnati / EngineeringMary Beth Privitera, University of CincinnatiDaria Narmoneva, University of CincinnatiBalakrishna Haridas, University of Cincinnati Page 13.359.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Design and Exper imental Capstone: An Integr ated Exper ienceAbstr actWe report on student outcomes across three phases in the development of the BME seniorcapstone experience. The BME department provides a comprehensive capstone experience to itsseniors. All students enroll in a two-course, team-based, device design capstone sequence and aconcurrent

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; James Baish, Bucknell University; William King, Bucknell University; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

passed to the Institution for Leadership in Technology and Management (ILTM), also hosted at our institution.• Due to the nature of our design sequence, the final functional deliverable is often not of the same scope as some other senior design deliverables. Students should be reminded early and often that their final product is of their own making and not the product of an imaginative professor, graduate student or external mentor.SummaryOur program has successfully integrated external mentors into senior design teams ateach step in the design process. The participation of the mentors and the level ofcommitment required of them have served to enhance our students’ senior designexperience. The most significant impact of the external mentor

Conference Session

Careers and Professional Development in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Guilford, University of Virginia; Katherine Bishop, University of Virginia; William Walker, University of Virginia; J. Milton Adams, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

AC 2008-2784: SUITABILITY OF AN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM INBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING FOR PREMEDICAL STUDYWilliam Guilford, University of Virginia William Guilford is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Undergraduate Program Director at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Saint Francis College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Will's research focuses on the biomechanics of single molecules involved in muscle contraction and cell movement.Katherine Bishop, University of Virginia Katherine L. Bishop is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the degree

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Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

participants are encouraged to practice during the course of the workshop,then try to implement these skills in their own classes at their home institutions. To date, over400 faculty members have attended an ExCEEd teaching workshop, and most participants willagree that these workshops have helped them become better teachers. Although it is sponsoredby ASCE, and presented as “excellence in civil engineering education”, the techniques andprinciples presented by the ExCEEd program are universal to best practices of teaching,regardless of the subject matter being presented. In this paper, we will present several of the bestpractices from the ExCEEd teaching methodology and show how they’ve been integrated into ajunior-level biomaterials class offered for

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BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hatice Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

covered typical of any LinearSystems course in an Electrical and Computer Engineering discipline. The role of the LinearSystems course in the BME curriculum as a core course which also prepares thebioinstrumentation majors for senior electives such as Digital Signal Processing, Medical ImageProcessing, Control Systems and Digital Control Systems presented us a unique challenge: Tomake the Linear Systems course more relevant to all biomedical engineering majors when thereis insufficient time to add new material. Table 1. Alignment of topics in Physiology for Engineers and Linear Systems for Biomedical Engineers Page

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BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Jevsevar, Vanderbilt University; Melanie Aston, Vanderbilt University; Shaun Price, Vanderbilt University; Cynthia Paschal, Vanderbilt University; Stacy Klein-Gardner

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Biomedical

of 2007. All curriculum development was based on research for human learningpresented in the National Academy of Science report How People Learn1. Specifically, theinstruction is designed around “anchored inquiry” of interesting challenges2,3. Students’ inquiryprocesses are guided by an instructional sequence built around a learning cycle called the‘Legacy cycle’3.Each of the five legacy cycle modules in this unit includes a new challengequestion, interviews with experts in the imaging field to guide their inquiry, and lectures andhands-on activities to equip students in answering each challenge. Each of the hands-onactivities was designed to use materials under $25, enabling the curriculum to be integrated invarious classroom environments

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BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Torres, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

in the case of those bioengineering students not inclined towards theinstrumentation line. Utilization of the NI ELVIS has been in general terms well received bystudents. This paper focuses on describing the initial experience of developing a newcomprehensive and balanced introductory electrical circuits course in an undergraduatebioengineering curriculum using an integrated laboratory-lecture method and utilizing theaforementioned virtual instrumentation resource.Intr oductionWithin the framework of an undergraduate bioengineering curriculum, teaching a first course onelectrical/electronic circuits to students with no previous background presents a significantchallenge. Given the number of different multidisciplinary areas that a

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BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

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Biomedical

with tissue engineering.IntroductionThermodynamics has been an integral part of the core undergraduate curriculum in theDepartment of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh since inception of the department.The decision was not taken lightly – considerable debate revolved around whether a preciousrequired course should be devoted to thermodynamics when students were exposed tothermodynamic concepts in other required courses such as physiology, transport, and cellbiology. However, we felt that the heuristic nature of presenting and using a relation, e.g., theVan't Hoff relation for osmotic pressure, without appreciation of the underlying principles for therelation was detrimental to fostering engineering design and development skills. A

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Unique Student Opportunities in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Jean Alley, Vanderbilt University; Penny Hirsch, Northwestern University; Stacy Klein-Gardner; Julie Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Bourgeois, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

dissemination. This summer, the focus ison ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging modalities. These materials cover the basicfundamentals, techniques, applications, and imaging features of each modality.Additionally, since the curriculum is designed for the high school level, it must beaffordable; the required materials for an experiment must not cost more than $25. Thetools and resources under development follow the format of the Legacy Cycle, achallenge-based instructional approach that supports the How People Learn framework.A grand challenge is introduced, and students research multiple perspectives and perform Page 13.128.10experiments in order to

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Careers and Professional Development in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Guruprasad Madhavan, State University of New York-Binghamton; Aimee Betker, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Jennifer Flexman, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Barbara Oakley, Oakland University

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Biomedical

13.277.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Career and Professional Development in Bioengineering: Translation of a Conference Initiative to Education and TrainingAbstractThe Student Activities Committee of the annual conferences of the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) hasdeveloped a unique career and professional development track for undergraduate and graduatestudents in bioengineering. This initiative debuted at the 2005 IEEE/EMBS conference and hassince developed as an integral part of the annual conference. In the 2006 annual conference,approximately 320 student members participated in the student

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Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mia Markey, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin

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Biomedical

technologies influence theireducational experience and learning. Yet their attitudes and perceptions must be considered in Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008 American Society for Engineering Educationthe use of instructional technology if the end result is to have the technology enhance theirlearning. In order to investigate student perceptions in these areas: general attitudes aboutlearning; reactions to their experiences with technologies in the classroom; and faculty use oftechnology, an online survey was administered to the students.2. MethodsThese courses integrate instructional technologies across the curriculum and we used

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Careers and Professional Development in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce-Cottler, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

unique in the challenges posed to communication given the wide arrayof clients, especially physicians and clinicians. The ability to work well with collaborators (notjust immediate members of a design team) is essential to success in BME, whether in industry,the clinic, or academia. Moreover, specialized knowledge and skills are needed forcommunication with collaborators in the various sectors pertinent to BME.8The integration of professional skills into a BME curriculum at a holistic level (not just“inoculated” into a specific course) has been described previously in the implementation ofproblem-based learning throughout a curriculum.9 However, there has been little publication ofsuch methods for teaching and assessing professional skills

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BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shahin Sirouspour, McMaster University; Pawel Malysz, McMaster University; Ali Shahdi, McMaster University; Ryan Leslie, Quanser Inc; Mahyar Fotoohi, Quanser Inc; Paul Karam, Quanser Inc

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Biomedical

are beginningto create undergraduate programs in biomedical engineering and developing new curriculums tosupport such programs. Medical Robotics is a Level 4 compulsory course in McMasterUniversity’s new established Electrical and Biomedical Engineering program. This paperprovides an overview of a laboratory component which has been co-developed by McMasterUniversity and Quanser Consulting Inc. for this course. First, the motivations for introducing aMedical Robotics course into the Biomedical Engineering curriculum and the desired learningoutcomes pursued by the proposed laboratory experiments are discussed. These are followed bya brief introduction of the hardware/software system used in the lab as well as detaileddescriptions of four

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BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; David Gatchell, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

. Page 13.981.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Physiology Concepts and Physiology Problems for Biomedical Engineering StudentsAbstract Physiology is a core element of an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum,although programs differ in whether the biomedical engineering faculty or biology faculty teachthese courses, and in whether physiology is taught in stand-alone courses or incorporated intoother courses. Here we first present an analysis of the concepts and topics in physiology that areviewed by biomedical engineering faculty and by representatives of industry as being mostimportant for biomedical engineers to learn. We also provide information on the importance

Conference Session

BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments

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Biomedical

engineering student to find the functions thatmost apply to their course and hence a better organization is needed to help teach and understandconcepts. In this paper, we will explore a new Startup kit that has been developed to address thisconcern. We will explore the current environment and the areas that can be improved upon andpresent the free biomedical startup kit and discuss the pros and cons of this approach1. INTRODUCTIONBiomedical Engineering education has evolved significantly in the recent years to encompassadvanced areas from the life sciences, as well as electrical and mechanical engineering such asadvanced signal and image processing, data acquisition and instrumentation. With the inclusionof such areas in the curriculum comes the