Conference Session

Development of Technical and Soft Skills in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Dominique Okon, The Ohio State University; Tanya M. Nocera, The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

this study were junior and senior level biomedical engineering undergraduatestudents who were enrolled in the biomechanics lab course during autumn 2015 or autumn 2016.The students enrolled in the autumn 2015 cohort were required to keep lab notebooks on paper,whereas those enrolled in the autumn 2016 cohort were required to keep electronic labnotebooks (ELNs) using department-purchased subscriptions to LabArchives Classroom Edition.Otherwise, all other aspects of this course, including instruction and student learning objectives,were identical. There was also no significant difference between overall final laboratory scoresof both student cohorts (p=0.78), indicating a similar caliber of students and thereby presenting areasonable comparison