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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark A. Ruegsegger, Ohio State University

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industrial aspects. Mark received his Professional Engineering (PE) license in 2009 in the Metals and Materials specialty. Page 24.1390.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work in Progress: International BME Capstone and Summer Design ExperienceIntroductionEducation that includes international experiences has long been seen as an important way to givestudents a unique perspective and skill set for their future career endeavors. Seldom, however,do these experiences include rigorous engineering education. This can be due to constraints of atypical

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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programs, about ten students from different parts in thecountry meet at the REU hosting institution and perform research and career-developmentactivities for 10 weeks. The NSF-funded REU program at our Institute is the first one thatfocuses on Neural Engineering: a hot topic in research and also highly sought after by students.Neural engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary research area that takes an engineeringapproach to analyze neurological function and to understand, repair, replace, or enhance thenervous system. The main goal of a neural engineer is to develop solutions to neurological andrehabilitative problems. The REU site in neural engineering (NEURON REU) at the New JerseyInstitute of Technology (NJIT) is led by our biomedical

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Innovations in Pedagogy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

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them better understand their own learning (63% M, 73% E), andincreased responsibility for their learning (62% M, 69% E). Also, students felt the muddiestpoint exercise did not take too much effort (85% M, 79% E), make them feel anxious orfrustrated (88% M, 87% E), and did not require too much time (92% M, 87% E). Lastly,students felt that the material learned in the course will be of value after graduation (96% M,96% E), will be useful in their careers (94% M, 94% E), and helped them see real-worldrelevance of the material (94% M, 96% E). These results are summarized below in Table 1. INTEREST/ATTAINMENT VALUE Agree motivated me to do well in the course 50% (M), 58% (E

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Innovations in Pedagogy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Langman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Judith S. Zawojewski, Illinois Institute of Technology

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programming (the“Summer Program”). In addition to the Summer Program, the H.S. Program offers workshops,field trips, career exploration opportunities, and college advising during the school year. A major goal of the H.S. Program is to foster a sense of community among the admittedstudents and to introduce the high school students to a variety of people studying STEM fieldsand working in STEM fields in different capacities. To further this goal, the Summer Programincludes a variety of eight-day collaborative projects in a variety of STEM-related fields.Students are allowed to choose one of those eight-day collaborative projects to join with theirpeers. The focus of these eight-day projects is to collaborate with a community partner to

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Design in the Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Matthew S. Bollom; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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, hands-on approach, early in the curriculum, students haveobtained the skills they need to be successful in their future projects, to make informed decisionsabout their BME area of study and careers, and to enable them to become better engineers.IntroductionThe Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madisondeveloped a rigorous six-semester, team-based design curriculum for our undergraduates to solvereal-world, client-based design problems when the department was founded in 1999 as shown inFigure 1.1,2 Teams of four or five students work on up to 41 different, real-world design projectsevery semester. This design sequence breaks down class boundaries, forms mentoredrelationships, actively involves each student in

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew B. A. McCullough, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; DeRome O. Dunn, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Jangannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

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experience for outstanding rising 11th and 12thgraders in Guilford County, North Carolina. This program provides students with hands onresearch experiences in university laboratories working alongside University faculty andprincipal investigators on cutting edge research. As such this particular experience has beenmost impactful for students with a strong interest in a STEM career. The BEI, held on the campus of NC A&T is a weeklong day camp for rising high schoolseniors, juniors, and sophomores. This program is especially unique due to the level ofcollaboration between two universities (NC A&T and the University of Pittsburgh) and thePittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI). The concept for the BEI as applied at NC A&Twas

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Steven Martin, University of Virginia

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs. A native Virginian, she received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 working in the area of heat transfer in diesel engine cylinder heads. She then served as a Visiting Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley from 1993-1994, where she developed her interests in microscale heat transfer and aerogels while working in the laboratory of Chang-Lin Tien. In 1994 Pam joined the Mechan- ical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UVA where she received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1995, was promoted to Professor in 2004, was named

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia A. Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University Women in Engineering Program, West Lafayette; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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to 4.6 from pre- to post-event) and gain more confidence to chooseengineering as a career (3.1 to 3.8 from pre- to post-event) when using a Likert scale (1 – 5 with1 being completely disagree and 5 being complete agree).Additionally, anecdotal data from all programs support that hands-on design activities engagestudent interest. Many participants stay in contact with activity mentors they meet during theseprograms and are further influenced to keep engineering on the forefront of their choices forcollege. Specifically, many parents and participants comment about a new interest in BME.Summary and conclusionsIncorporating the design process into outreach activities increases participant’s self-explorationof the problem and stimulates minds

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin T. Spang, Ohio State University; Aaron Strickland, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University

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setsdeveloped while taking the research project course.Students participate in research for a variety of reasons, including the desire to become a scientistor to clarify, confirm, or refine their educational and career goals2. At The Ohio State University,participation in research is approximately 22.4% for undergraduate students3. According to the2012 US Census, 18.6% of students are continuing education in graduate schools4. STEMgraduate programs in the US have enrollments between 40%-70%+ international students5. Thisresearch course may train a generation of domestic students to attend graduate school and reducemany universities’ dependence on international applicants.This study was conducted under IRB exempt protocol # 2013E0570 in accordance with

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Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margo Cousins, The University of Texas at Austin; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin; Henry Grady Rylander III P.E.

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. Short-term off-campus trainingexperiences can help students see the 'real-world' impact of engineering research and broadentheir understanding of their career opportunities. Arguably, internship and externship experiencesare particularly valuable for students in interdisciplinary majors, such as biomedical engineering,which cross more traditional fields and career paths. Thus, interdisciplinary graduate trainingprograms, such as those funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging andBioengineering (NIBIB), sometimes include an internship or externship component as a way toensure breadth in the educational program. The purpose of this study is to review the graduatesummer internship/externship practices of NIBIB funded graduate training

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Innovations in Pedagogy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin Madison; Xuan Zhang, University of Wisconsin - madison; Mehdi Shokoueinejad, University of Wisconsin Madison; John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Engineers, Instrument Society of America, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Institute of Physics. He has been a member of the IEEE-EMBS Page 24.1018.1 Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting Active Learning in Biomedical Engineering Classes through   Blended InstructionAbstractIn 2013 we implemented blended teaching in one of the core biomedical engineering

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Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

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. The educational diversity in BME results not only from differentuniversities failing to cover the whole “core,” as we have defined it, but from students havingmany elective experiences. Whether students have more breadth (a large number of common courses) or more depth(tracks) is clearly an unresolved question in BME undergraduate education, with opinions ofacademia and industry reflecting the diversity that is seen in programs. It will be of interest torevisit this in another ten years, but this is not necessarily a question that needs to be resolved. Aremaining question is whether both approaches are equally good for all students, or whether eachis best for a subset of students, perhaps having different career