Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

required totake good notes in lieu of buying a textbook, and about how ethics were integrated into engineer-ing decisions. For our students, the approach that this course took has served to provide an over-view of the biomedical and rehabilitation engineering fields. This paper noted before that 18additional students signed up for the BmE or BS&T minors while or after taking this class. Sincethe majority of the class were sophomores or juniors, no post-graduation data are available as ofyet as to what careers they ultimately will embark upon. The one high school student in the classwill be going to the Albany College of Pharmacy. No data are available regarding whether life-long-learning skills were enhanced, although a number of students

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2011-1256: DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERTHROUGH A 12-MONTH INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. AND CHINABarbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology Barbara Burks Fasse is an educational psychologist and senior research scientist in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives– specifically Problem-Based and Project-Based Inquiry Learning– in classrooms, in- structional labs, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007 following ten years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design