Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ann E. Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Biomedical

-class assignments. All assignments weresubmitted electronically via Blackboard to instructors by the end of the class period. The in-classactivities were designed so that students applied the knowledge and professional design skills Page 25.1140.5discussed in the introductory lecture to their own capstone project. During the in-class activities,four course instructors and one teaching assistant circulated to provide immediate assistance andreal time feedback (one instructor to 10 – 15 students). The professional skills covered are listedin Table 1. A slightly different course format was used for ethics and economics, where thecourse time

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Eric A. Kennedy, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.Within the biomedical engineering curriculum at Bucknell University, a senior-level fabricationand experimental design course is integrated into a four course design sequence where twocourses comprise the senior capstone experience and two courses teach supplementary material.The intent of the sequence is to provide experience with a variety of skills that are valuable forboth senior design projects and in BME careers after graduation. As designed, the Fabricationand Experimental Design course is not a full-credit course, meeting only two days a week forone-hour sessions, with several lab sessions

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Biomedical

through the senior capstone engineering design project. All students also take courses inmath and science (including physics, chemistry and biology). Together, these courses provide Page 25.417.4students with their technical fundamentals. Required coursework in arts, humanities, the socialsciences and entrepreneurship, including a capstone experience, provides context to their scienceand engineering background.The BioE program, then, complements this engineering foundation by both providing a deepunderstanding of biological systems and through the application of engineering approaches in abioengineering context. Given the limited number of courses

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Biomedical

capstone project which picks upwhere a previous student left off. He wants to take the protocol she (the previous student, whohas graduated) developed for a diagnostic assay and build a prototype microfluidic device thatwill perform the same function at a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately, he cannot reproduce theresults of the protocol she described in her capstone paper. He looks through her lab notebook insearch for some guidance, and reads with interest how she redesigned her protocol repeatedly inresponse to various failures over winter and spring quarter. Midway through spring quarter, shefinally arrived at the protocol described in her capstone paper. However, in both attempts toexecute this protocol by your dedicated and very-experienced

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. DesJardins, Clemson University; Ellen Breazel, Clemson University; Marilyn Reba, Clemson University; Irina Viktorova, Clemson University; Jonathan Bradford Matheny, Clemson University; Taufiquar R. Khan

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Biomedical

AC 2012-4226: EMPHASIZING CORE CALCULUS CONCEPTS USINGBIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS TO ENGAGE, MENTOR, AND RETAINSTEM STUDENTSDr. John D. DesJardins, Clemson University John DesJardins received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Clemson University in Dec. 2006 and has worked for more than 15 years as a biomechanical research engineer. He has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in the areas of biomechanics, biomaterials tribology and mechanical testing, and is the director of the Laboratory of Orthopaedic Design and Engineering at Clemson University. He currently leads or participates in many multi-disciplinary research teams on projects funded through NASA, DoD, DoT, NSF, biomedical