, requires programs to evaluate students’ “ability to applyengineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs…” (ABET EAC 2019-2020SO 2). This major design experience, typically a senior capstone project, should include theculmination of the foundational materials students learn during their course of study. ABET hasalso defined “engineering design” which includes many concepts of Design Thinking (DT). DTis a multistep process that begins with the formalization of the problem statement and movesthrough implementation of possible solutions with the needs of the end-user in mind. There areseveral ‘flavors’ of design thinking available and we have been following the 5-step designthinking process described by Plattner 2010 where the
Paper ID #29031Work in Progress: A Vertically-Integrated, Project-Focused Approach toUndergraduate Bio-medical Engineering EducationDr. Amber L Doiron, University of Vermont Amber Doiron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Vermont with a research focus on nanoparticles for drug delivery and imaging. Previ- ously she was an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Binghamton University. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Colorado State University in 2003, and she was an NSF-IGERT fellow while earning an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
Paper ID #29330A Survey of Biomedical Design Projects to Inform Skill Development in aNew Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering CurriculumMs. Kelsey Nicole Warren, Kansas State University Kelsey Warren is pursuing a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Her interests include biomedical engineering education, leadership training, and hands-on design as a learning modality for K-12 and post-secondary education. Ms. Warren is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).Dr. Charles Carlson, Kansas State
Continually Challenged with Integrated Design ProjectsAbstractIntroduction: The undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) curriculum should preparestudents to confidently approach complex problems, as graduates will enter the workforce in anenvironment of rising healthcare costs, decreasing average life expectancy, and significantsocioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. With this landscape, solutions to contemporaryproblems will require innovative thinking and groundbreaking medical technologies, suggestingthat the future of BME will be increasingly design-oriented. BME curricula generally includelaboratory and project components aimed at preparing students for senior capstone; however,students may begin capstone
Design Curriculum. He holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Furman University and M.Sc. and D.Phil. degrees in Mathematics–Computation from the University of Oxford, where his studies were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Vertically Integrated Design Program Using Peer EducationIntroduction A yearlong capstone project for fourth year undergraduate biomedical engineering studentsis often put forward as the model for engaged, experiential learning [2, 3]. However, preparingstudents to undertake the breadth of such a project is often overlooked. In most undergraduateengineering curricula, there
required fortwo majors, Biology/Biotechnology and Bioengineering. The addition of an authentic in silicoresearch experience as a project for this lecture course would thus expose all students in bothmajors to an independent research experience. A single post-project survey was used to measuredifferences in student perception of themselves as a researcher by asking students to rate how theresearch project increased their knowledge in the use of scientific practices, was an act ofdiscovery, required collaboration, required iteration, and had relevance outside the course. Thesecategories have been used to assess other CUREs and define the characteristics a CURE [2].Students who participated in both the traditional lab to sequence DNA and the
Paper ID #30608Inclusion of Industry Professional Experts in biomedical engineeringdesign courses at-scaleCollin W Shale, Johns Hopkins University Collin Shale is a junior lecturer with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. Collin received his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Marquette University, and he received his master’s degree in bioengineering innovation and design from Johns Hopkins University, where he worked on projects relating to infection prevention for intravenous infusion and tuberculosis di- agnostics. Collin is an instructor for the capstone
into their courses. Additionally, these extended student outcomes have been mappedto ABET outcomes. To date, project-based learning (PBL) activities have been implemented orare planned in most of the second and third year Bioengineering integrated core classes, as well asseveral of the track-specific courses and upper level elective courses. As we move forward,establishing an effective assessment mechanism to measure student outcomes will be a keycomponent of our continuous curriculum improvement plan.Introduction:The concept of “Vertically Integrated Projects” and “Connected Curriculum” in university settingsis not new. The concepts were originally conceived at Georgia Institute of Technology and theUniversity College of London, respectively
information researcher for the Federal Highway Administration’s Advanced Driver Interface Design and Assessment Project and industrial designer for Sundberg-Ferar. Prior to teaching at Carnegie Mellon, Chung taught in the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design at The Ohio State University, and he served as the interim Director of the Indus- trial Design Program at Georgia Institute of Technology.Chung also has been published in various design and management journals and proceedings. He is also the author of the book,The Praxis of Product Design in Collaboration with Engineering (Springer Publishing). It is a culmination of applied methods, case studies, and unique views in respect to numerous
as availability of instructional resources to support this initiative.The course involves a 10-week project, along with weekly engagement and reflection activitiesthat are designed to promote critical thinking and collaboration. Students were required toparticipate in a moderated discussion forum at least twice every week.• Discussion Forum: Each student was required to initiate a new topic of discussion (initiation thread) related to the overall theme of the week as well as engage in a discussion with posts from one or more peers (engagement thread). Both initiation and engagement threads were meant to allow for weekly reflection among students and low-stakes assessment by course facilitators. Measures such as number of posts
our engineering students with an interdisciplinaryexperience, such as by leveraging the talent of students in our world-class Schools of PublicHealth, Business, Medicine and Law. Third, while students are currently trained and encouragedto explore the entrepreneurial aspects and cultural context of their global health tech projects,these aspects often receive less emphasis. The current generation of engineering students areeager to tackle global challenges and positively impact patients’ lives. Therefore, our objectivewas to create a new, experiential course in global health innovation and entrepreneurship wherestudents from various educational levels and schools, specifically the Schools of Engineering(SEAS) and Public Health (PH), will
. Engineering education research includes curriculum and laboratory development of biomechanics and bio-signal processing concepts.Dr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh David Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Assistant Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. His research is focused on fus- ing sustainability principles and design thinking to address the Water and Energy grand challenges in the natural and built environment. Current projects include: Renewable electrode materials for Bioelectro- chemical systems, Recirculating Aquaponic Systems, Environmental Quality wireless sensor networks, and incorporating Sustainable Design
need to learn embeddeddevelopment comes up repeatedly in the context of our capstone senior design experience, and hasresulted in the individual instruction of many students at our institution, over many years, often in theform of guided tutorials. While effective enough to support the capstone course, this approach does notexpose every student that wants to acquire this skill set with the opportunity to do so; such instruction islimited to those students that need to learn the skills to support a project. It also lacks the efficiency of aclassroom approach.Microcontroller skills can be acquired today without formal instruction. Students can learn much of thismaterial on their own through the “Maker Movement” [2], in which makers learn through
-strain relation by applying the formula to the processed data.4) Data Matching module: User can match (synchronize) data collected from different testing devices with Cross-Correlation technique7. For example, the tissue strain information deduced from the Mechanics of Material module may be synchronized with stress information measured and evaluated from a mechanical testing machine in this module. Fig. 1. Video analysis steps in Virtual Mechanics Laboratory3 Biomechanics projects with Virtual Mechanics LaboratoryThe following projects may be used for the laboratories in our Biomechanics course. However,students are allowed to pick any topics by submitting a simple proposal with the justification.1) Sports
immersion and educationalexperiences that simulate a real-world industrial design process and encourage creativity,innovation and teamwork [2-5].In line with modern practices, our program’s design sequence focuses on system engineering,and includes key design phases of project definition, system-level design, prototypedevelopment, and verification and validation. In the most recent revision, we restructured ourdesign curriculum to ensure better continuity of design topics, to facilitate collaborative projectswith industry partners, and to alleviate various academic challenges noted by faculty andindicated by students in the course evaluation questionnaires. To this end, we reduced theduration of the capstone design sequence by three academic
]. Many programs devote one day a week to cover one engineering branch, thuscovering all branches in a full week [2, 6, 9]. While these programs include biomedicalengineering, many topics are omitted due to time constraints [6, 9]. Biomedical engineeringspecific programs are often structured to encompass the multidisciplinary nature of the field bypresenting students with a variety of projects to complete [8, 10]. While these programs provideaccess to biomedical engineering outside of high school curricula, many lack tissue engineeringcomponents [8]. Furthermore, tissue engineering specific programs are scarce and expensive dueto the significant amount of personnel time to design and run them [9, 10]. To expose more studentsto the tissue
prosthetics to tissueengineering to bioinformatics [1]. As the field continues to evolve, undergraduate biomedicalengineering programs have also continued to grow and evolve. To support the needs of thegrowing field, biomedical engineering (BME) curricula were established as broad andinterdisciplinary, integrating knowledge from both basic sciences and engineering disciplines.This training prepares graduates for a wide variety of careers in medicine, government, andindustry. The first BME programs were accredited by ABET in the early 1970s [2] and at presentthere are 139 programs accredited, with new programs accredited each year [3].In an effort to define the core content of a BME undergraduate curriculum, the VaNTHcurriculum project identified key
Engineering. His research interests consist of therapeutic and diagnostic applications of directed energy, including electric fields and ultrasound.Dr. Elham Morshedzadeh, Virginia Tech Dr. Elham Morshedzadeh is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Design. Her Ph.D. research focus was in Usability and Interaction Evaluation. She received her MA in Industrial Design from Tabriz Art University in Iran and her Ph.D. in Design Science from Chiba University in Japan. Her research focuses on exploring methods to facilitate collaborative, community-centered products and services. By creating connections between students, faculty, professionals and communities of users, she has brought a variety of projects and recognition to our
Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation, where he consults with faculty, graduate students, and post-docs to design, implement, and assess research projects that relate to teaching and learning in their classrooms. He also contributes to a variety of program-level assessment projects on the CMU campus. Mike’s training includes an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of New Hampshire, as well as an M.Ed. in sport and performance psychology from Springfield College. His interests include the science of learning, research methodology, and data analysis. Prior to joining the Eberly Center in 2017, Mike worked as the Teaching and Learning Research
introduce BME applications to high school students,the authors developed a BME high school summer program that was piloted in the summer of2019. Aimed at introducing students to the BME field, the program focused on introducingneuroscience and neuroengineering principles using low-cost and open source materials.The California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program“BioEngineering Your Brain: Controlling the World with Your Brainwaves” introduced basicneuroscience and bioengineering concepts to 24 high school students through lecture basedmaterial, in class assignments and activities, and hands-on laboratory projects. Through the useof low-cost and open source electroencephalography (EEG) devices (OpenBCI, Brooklyn, NY
institutions, working together virtually and globally to innovate and create products formarket consumption. This model has been successful during its lifespan by preparing studentsfor the global workplace [5]. Another useful industrial model for creating an innovation-basedwork atmosphere is Lean Startup. A Lean Startup model includes quickly brainstormingsolutions, building prototypes, taking measurements, and learning what did and didn’t work forfuture project iterations. This model works by making ideas into products quickly and efficiently[6]. Finally, there are also academically focused innovation-based curricula that have been usedby initiatives such as the Biodesign Innovation Process. The Biodesign Innovation Process worksthrough three phases
application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and its influence to the society. Furthermore Dr. May serves as Editor-in-Chief for the ’International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)’ with the aim to promote the inter- disciplinary discussion of engineers, educators and engineering education researchers around technology, instruction and research. At his former institution Dr. May was research scientist and project lead of numerous extra-mural funded research projects in the area of Engineering Education Research with focus on distance education as well as remote experimentation and with this he gained extensive experience in developing, integrating, and evaluating innovative learning experiences
withbioinstrumentation, these courses constitute the dedicated teaching spaces (Figure 2) andfundamental skills that students use later in their course sequence in junior design and seniordesign. The University of Florida undergraduate biomedical engineering program is capped atone-hundred and twenty students for each graduating cohort, resulting in two sections of ~thirty-two students enrolled in the cellular engineering laboratory course each semester. A BFigure 2: The Cellular Engineering Laboratory has 8 Biological Safety Cabinets, with 4 shown in (A) andthe remaining mirrored behind, and a discussion space (B) where all students can see projected images.For the majority of students enrolled in Cellular Engineering Laboratory
-based, inquiry-based, project-based, and problem-basedlearning”, the MUST students not only learned the course content, but enjoyed the process [9].MethodsOpening DayStudents were randomly assigned to teams of four students prior to the start of the course; thesame teams were maintained throughout the semester, although they had permission to request achange. Within five minutes of the very first class, the teams were given a hypothetical situationand a problem to solve. The hypothetical situation was that an unknown molecule was infectingstudents on campus with a deadly disease (which turned out to be eerily predictive of theCOVID-19 pandemic). Teams brainstormed methods to solve one of the following: (1) Diagnose/identify the
of topics such as regulatory affairs [1] and engineeringstandards [2]. Although the combination of technical and “soft skills” can be an importantdistinguishing characteristic of biomedical engineers in industry, it is challenging to effectivelyteach students professional topics in an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum thatalso attempts to cover the breadth of engineering and life science topics that is the hallmark ofthe discipline.Recognizing the importance of professional topics, students are often required to implementthem in their culminating capstone design project. A common approach is to teach the topics inthe capstone design courses themselves, often by providing didactic sessions covering each topicjust before students
been no attempt previously to understand whether there is anyagreement across BME about what type of computing is important. While many universitiesoffer elective courses in computer programming that can expand students’ knowledge, thepresent project was done to determine the frequency of requiring different types of programmingcourses, and whether generalizations can be made about the state of undergraduate BMEeducation in this respect. Required computer courses for BME students can be assigned toseveral categories: 1) MATLAB, 2) object-oriented programming (e.g. Python, C++), 3)programming of microcontrollers for on board sensing or control of electromechanical devices,4) computer-aided design (CAD), sometimes used in conjunction with
Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interest includes big-data health analytics. He is actively in collaborating with international partners to enhance American engineering students’ global learning.Mrs. Eunhye Kim, Purdue University at West Lafayette Eunhye Kim is a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests lie in engineering design education, especially for engineering stu- dents’ entrepreneurial mindsets and multidisciplinary teamwork skills in design and innovation projects. She earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering and an M.B.A. in South Korea
Summarized potential reasons for patients Nitinol manufacturing failure Summarized reasons that failure would be use to patient and Materials expert at Sent role playing comments about procedural error rather than design a company Nitinol the reasons that a TAVR might fail and material issuesAn optional and anonymous Blackboard survey was posted for students at university A. Thesurvey consisted of four questions to gauge student interest in this unique project of collaboratingacross schools and cohorts of
member.Undergraduate Research ExperienceUndergraduate research provides students with an opportunity to get exposure to research. It iscommonly recommended that undergraduate students gain research experience at the universitywhere the study took place, though what kind of research is not specified. There are severalmechanisms for students to become involved in research, through independent study credit, forhourly pay, or volunteering. It is not uncommon for research experience to vary dramaticallybetween labs, with regards to the tasks performed by undergraduate researchers or the level ofinput taken in project decisions.ParticipantsUsing purposive and snowball sampling [25], 14 students entering their third year, who were alsoplanning on engaging in at
developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is experienced in both synchronous and asynchronous online and in-person teaching environments.Dr. Kurt E Beschorner, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Kurt Beschorner is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at