Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

a considerable amount of background didactic instruc-tion needed to be presented before the ethics and other nuances of a topic could be discussed.Another 1/4th of the lectures consisted of a Socratic Q&A with the class, working it from simpleto complex. One-fourth dealt with discussions of case studies, which were often a lead in orfollow up to the Q&A sessions. The remainder of the instructional part of the class dealt withcurrent media reports on BmE activities that followed the topic being discussed. Students wererequired to give a 3-slide, 3-min talk during the last week of the class, accompanied by a 4 or 5page paper. The presentation and paper were to discuss and analyze one current interaction orresearch activity at the